Staff Report

Some are homeowners while others rent. Some are making their parents proud by attending college, while others do all they can to avoid notice because they lack proper documentation to even be here. Still others don’t have a permanent address, sleeping in their vehicles, camping in the woods or along local streams.

All those folks are part of the population of Hays County, and all those situations provide an obstacle to the accurate count of people living in the U.S.A. that is de...