THE HISPANIC POPULATION
2010 CENSUS
The 2010 Census, the last official reporting of the US Population, recorded 50,477,594 Hispanic Americans. That is against a total US Population of 308,745,538, so Hispanics accounted for 16.3% of the US Population. So for the first time, with the 2010 Census, Hispanics became the largest Minority Group in the US.
The 50+million number is up from 35,305,818 from the 2000 Census. That is a 43% increase. Back in 2000, there were 36,419,434 Black Americans (alone or in combination), barely edging Hispanic Americans for the Minority Population title in 2000.
Although 2010 is the latest official Census, the Census Bureau does a Race/Background Population estimate each year. The latest estimate is from 2014 and showed a Hispanic Population increase to 55,387,539 – an increase of 4,909,975 or an impressive 9.73% increase in just 5 years.
Hispanics not a Race?
Most Americans probably think of Hispanics as a race. However, the Census providers go to great pains to separate race from Hispanic origin. The Census form mandates that race and Hispanic Origin are two separate and distinct concepts and uses two different questions to collect data on the Census Form. The first question is to determine if you are of Hispanic or Non Hispanic Origin. The Hispanic origin question also determines the nature of your Hispanic background – Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, or some other Spanish origin. Once found, the person can self- identify the race to which he/she belongs.
Other things you may find interesting on the Hispanic Population:
- More than half of the total population growth in the US between the 2000 Census and the 2010 Census was due to the increase in the Hispanic population. The Hispanic population increased 15.2 million people over that period vs. only 27 million in the total population.
- Of that 15.2 million increase, Mexican Americans accounted for 11.2 million or nearly 75% of it.
- Over half of the Hispanic population in the US resides in just three states – California, Texas, and Florida!
- The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has a population of 3,808.610 and is 98% Hispanic
- The Hispanic population predominately self identified as either “white” or “some other race”. (Evidently, this caused much confusion on the Census form. The form only allowed you to self -identify your race as: a) White, b) Black or Afro-American, c) American Indian or Alaska Native, d) Asian, e) Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander and finally, f) Some other Race. Many Hispanics wrote in their race as their National origin or ethnicity, ie., Latino, Mexican, Puerto Rican, etc., so these were all lumped into the “Some other Race” Category).
Hispanic Population by State
Top 10 States for Hispanic Population 2010 Census
STATE HISP. POP HISP% POP
- California 14,013,719 37.6%
- Texas 9,460,921 37.6%
- Florida 4,223,806 22.5%
- New York 3,416,922 17.6%
- Illinois 2,027,578 15.8%
- Arizona 1,895,149 29.6%
- New Jersey 1,555,144 17.7%
- Colorado 1,038,687 20.7%
- New Mexico 953,403 46.3%
- Georgia 853,689 8.8%
Hispanic Population by National Origin – 2010 Census
ORIGIN POP. POP%
- Mexican 31,798,258 63.0%
- Puerto Rican 4,623,716 9.2%
- Cent. America 3,998,280 7.9%
- South American 2,769,434 5.5%
- Cuban 1,785,547 3.5%
- Dominican 1,414,703 2.8%
- Spaniard 635,253 1.3%
- All other 3,452,403 6.8%
Top 10 Cities Hispanic Population 2010 Census
CITY HISP. POP.
- New York 2,336,076
- Los Angeles 1,838,822
- Houston 919,668
- San Antonio 838,952
- Chicago 778,862
- Phoenix 589,877
- El Paso 523,721
- Dallas 507,309
- San Diego 376,020
- San Jose 313,636
For more information or more detailed information on the Hispanic population, go here!http://www.census.gov/2010census/data/
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