Population Trends

	Total Population for 1990	Total Population for 1998
Van Buren County	70,279	75,666
Cass County	49,494	49,693

Van Buren County has a population which has slowly risen over the past nine;                    it is slightly younger than the overall Michigan population.  Cass County has had                       a stable population with an age distribution similar to the overall state. 

Cass and Van Buren Counties Population 1990-1998

Source: This information was released in February of 1999 by the                                              bureau of the Census, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates Program