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The Pew Research Center celebrates the Hispanic Heritage Month with key data on the nation’s Latino population by geography and by characteristics of this community such as of language and group of origin, which reveal the profile of the Hispanic community in the United States.
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The US Hispanic population reached 62.5 million in 2021, compared to 27.5 million 2010. The increase of the 11 % in the Hispanic population was faster than the country’s 7% growth rate, but slower than the increase in the 23 % in the Asian population.
In 2022, Hispanics made up nearly one in five people in the US (09 %).
Latinos have driven the growth of the US population
During the last decade, the US population grew by 11.1 million between 2010 and 2021 and Hispanics represented the 52 % of this increase, a greater proportion than any other racial or ethnic group.
More Latinos say n being multiracial
The number of Latinos who say they are multiracial has increased dramatically. Almost 28 Millions of Latinos identified as more than one race in 2021, compared to only 3 million in 2010. The increase could be due to a number of factors, including changes to the census form that make it easier for people to identify as multiple races.
Origin of Latinos
People of Mexican origin accounted for almost 60 % (or about 37.2 million people) of the general Hispanic population of the country in 2021.
Those of Puerto Rican origin are the next largest group, with 5.8 million (approximately 3.1 million other Puerto Ricans live on the island as of 2021).
Six other Hispanic origin groups in the US have 1 million of people or more each: Salvadorans, Cubans, Dominicans, Guatemalans, Colombians and Hondurans. In addition, for 2021, Spaniards represented almost 1 million Latinos in the US
The largest racial or ethnic group in California and Texas
This demographic milestone in California occurred in 2014 and is the first for the state with the largest Hispanic population in the country. In 2010, there were about 15. 8 million Hispanics in California, compared to 14 millions of 2010. Latinos accounted for 27 % of California’s population in 2022, one of the highest proportions in the country.
In Texas, the state with the next largest Latino population (14.9 million), Latinos also made up the 19 % of state population and outnumbered the white population by approximately 230,000 to become the group largest racial or ethnic population in Texas, according to the American Community Survey of 2021.
In New Mexico, Latinos are not just the group larger, but rather constitute the 50 % of the population of the state and n 2022, the largest proportion in the country.
In Florida, the state with the third largest Latino population (5.8 million), Latinos made up the 23% of residents.
Four out of five Latinos are US citizens
From 2021, the 81 % of the Latinos living in the country are US citizens, vs. 80 % in 2010. This includes persons born in the United States and its territories (including Puerto Rico), persons born abroad to US parents, and immigrants who are naturalized citizens.
More Latinos speak English
The proportion of Latinos in the United States who speak English proficiently is growing.
In the 72 % of Latinos age 5+ spoke English fluently, vs. 54 % in 2000. US-born Latinos are driving this growth, as their share of this measure increased from 80 % to 91 % during the same period.
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