Editing St. Cloud, Minnesota (section)

===Race and ethnicity===
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible left" style="font-size: 90%;"
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! rowspan="3"|Race/ethnicity
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! colspan="2"|2000<ref name=2000Census>{{Cite book|title=HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE - 2000-Minnesota|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=bliorXz9m0cC&pg=GBS.PA191&hl=en|website=[[Google Books]]| year=2002 | publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau | isbn=9780160672132 }}</ref>
! colspan="2"|2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE - 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) - St. Cloud, Minnesota |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p2&g=1600000US2756896&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
! colspan="2"|2020<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE - 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) - St. Cloud, Minnesota |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p2&g=1600000US2756896|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
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! Number
! %
! Number
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! Number
! %
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| [[Non-Hispanic whites|White]] alone || 53,857 || 91.12% || 54,854 || 83.31% || 46,641 || 67.71%
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| [[African Americans|Black]] alone || 1,378 || 2.33% || 5,101 || 7.75% || 13,180 || 19.13%
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| [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] alone || 402 || 0.68% || 398 || 0.61% || 337 || 0.49%
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| [[Asian American|Asian]] alone || 1,833 || 3.10% || 2,393 || 3.64% || 2,404 || 3.49%
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| [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone || 31 || 0.05% || 16 || 0.03% || 51 || 0.07%
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| Other race alone || 60 || 0.10% || 54 || 0.08% || 314 || 0.46%
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| [[Multiracial American|Two or more races]] || 762 || 1.29% || 1,429 || 2.17% || 2,116 || 3.07%
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| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]]  || 784 || 1.33% || 1,597 || 2.43% || 2,838 || 4.12%
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! Total || 59,107 || 100.00% || 65,842 || 100.00% || 68,881 || 100.00%
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Over the past two decades, the racial and ethnic landscape of St. Cloud has experienced significant changes. In the year 2000, the population was predominantly White. However, by 2020, this percentage had dropped to 67%. The Black or African American demographic saw a substantial increase from 2% in 2000 to nearly 20% in 2020, marking the most significant growth among all groups. Other racial groups such as Asian Americans have maintained a stable presence. The Hispanic or Latino population nearly tripled in size.