Hispanics in the US Fast Facts

By CNN Newsource

Published February 24, 2021 12:06 PM

Here’s a look at the Hispanic population in the United States, via the Census Bureau.

Facts

The Office of Management and Budget describes Hispanic or Latino ethnicity as “a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.”

Hispanic people are the largest minority in the United States. Only Mexico has a larger Hispanic population than the United States.

In 2015, the Census Bureau projected that in 2060, Hispanic people will comprise 28.6% of the total population, with 119 million Hispanic individuals residing in the United States.

In 2018, Hispanics made up 8% of the electorate, compared to 10% in 2016.

There are an estimated 60,481,746 Hispanic people in the United States, comprising 18.4% of the population.

There are more than one million Hispanic residents in ten US states – Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Texas.

An estimated 41,757,391 US residents, or 13.5% of the population, speak Spanish at home.

An estimated 23,484,777 Spanish speakers also speak English “very well,” according to the 2019 Census survey. An additional 6,762,059 reported they speak English “well.”

Of the 60,481,746 Hispanic people in the United States, the following is a breakdown of how they define their race:

White alone: 39,686,000
Some other race alone: 15,513,283
Two or more races: 3,005,564
Black alone: 1,393,631
American Indian and Alaska Native alone: 610,988
Asian alone: 209,070
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone: 63,210

Article Topic Follows: National-World

Jump to comments ↓