March 24, 2011
Census 2010: 50 Million Latinos
Hispanics Account for More
Than Half of Nation’s Growth
in Past Decade
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Census 2010: 50 Million Latinos
Census 2010: 50 Million Latinos
Hispanics Account for More Than Half
of Nation’s Growth in Past Decade
The 2010 Census counted 50.5 million Hispanics in the United States, making up 16.3% of the
total population. The nation’s Latino population, which was 35.3 million in 2000, grew 43%
over the decade. The Hispanic population also accounted for most of the nation’s growth—
56%—from 2000 to 2010.
Among children ages 17 and younger, there were 17.1 million Latinos in 2010, or 23.1% of this
age group, according to an analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research
Center. The number of Latino children grew 39% over the decade. In 2000, there were 12.3
million Hispanic children, who were 17.1% of the population under age 18.
There were 33.3 million
Hispanics ages 18 and older
in 2010, a 45% increase from
2000. Hispanics made up
14.2% of the adult
population in 2010,
compared with 11% and 23
million people in 2000.
Racial and ethnic minorities
accounted for 91.7% of the
nation’s growth over the
decade; non-Hispanic whites
accounted for the remaining
8.3%.
Table 1
U.S. Population, by Race and Ethnicity,
2010 and 2000
(thousands)
2010
2000
U.S. Population
50,478
35,306
White
196,818
194,553
Black
37,686
33,948
Asian
14,465
10,123
2,247
2,069
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander
482
354
Some other race
604
468
5,966
4,602
Hispanic
American Indian and Alaska Native
Two or more races
Hispanics, who can be of any
Notes: Racial groups include only non-Hispanics. Hispanics are of any race.
race, are the nation’s largest
Source: Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of U.S. Census Bureau Redistricting_Filesminority group. Looking at
PL_94-171 for states
the major groups of singlePEW HISPANIC CENTER
race non-Hispanics in 2010,
196.8 million (63.7%) were white; 37.7 million (12.2%) were black; and 14.5 million (4.7%)
were Asian. There were 6 million non-Hispanics, or 1.9% of the U.S. population, who checked
more than one race.
By race, more than half of Hispanics—53%, or 26.7 million people—identified themselves as
white alone, an increase from 2000 when 47.9% did. The next largest group, 36.7% or 18.5
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million Hispanics, identified themselves as “some other race,” a decline from 2000, when
42.2% did. An additional 6%, compared with 6.3% in 2000, checked multiple races.
Although the numerical growth of the Hispanic population since 2000—more than 15 million—
surpassed the totals for the previous two decades, the growth rate of 43% was somewhat
slower than previous decades. Growth rates topped 50% in the 1980s (53%) and 1990s (58%).
The count of the nation’s Hispanic population was slightly larger than expected. The 2010
Census count of Hispanics was 955,000 people and 1.9% larger than the Census Bureau’s latest
population estimate for Hispanics. In some states, especially with small Hispanic populations,
the gap was wider.
Geographically, most Hispanics still live in nine states that have large, long-standing Latino
communities—Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, New Mexico, New Jersey, New
York and Texas—but the share living in other states has been growing.
In 2010, 76% of Latinos lived in these nine states, compared with 81% in 2000 and 86% in
1990. (In 2000, 50% of Hispanics lived in California and Texas alone. In 2010, that share was
46.5 %.) Despite the pattern of dispersion, however, there are more Latinos living in Los
Angeles County (4.7 million) than in any state except California and Texas.
As the accompanying charts show, the states
with the largest Hispanic populations include
eight with more than a million Hispanics, the
largest of which is California, where 14 million
Latinos were counted.
The dozen states where Hispanics are the
largest share of the population include five
where Latinos are more than one-in-four state
residents—New Mexico, Texas, California,
Arizona and Nevada.
The states with the largest percent growth in
their Hispanic populations include nine where
the Latino population more than doubled,
including a swath in the southeast United
States—Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and
South Carolina. The Hispanic population also
more than doubled in Maryland and South
Dakota.
Table 2
States with Largest Hispanic
Population Growth, 2000-2010
(%)
STATE
GROWTH, 2000-2010
South Carolina
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
Arkansas
North Carolina
148
145
134
122
114
111
Maryland
Mississippi
South Dakota
Delaware
Georgia
Virginia
106
106
103
96
96
92
Source: Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of U.S. Census
Bureau Redistricting_Files-PL_94-171 for states
PEW HISPANIC CENTER
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In six states, growth in the Hispanic population accounted for all of those states’ population
growth; if the Hispanic population had not grown, those states would not have grown. They
included Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. In
Michigan, the state population declined over the decade but the Hispanic population grew.
Looking at the Latino population by region, the West and South are home to the most
Hispanics, while growth has been most rapid in the South and Midwest. In 2010, 20.6 million
Hispanics lived in the West, 18.2 million lived in the South, 7 million lived in the Northeast
and 4.7 million lived in the Midwest.
Acknowledgments
Paul Taylor provided editorial guidance in the drafting of this report. Daniel Dockterman
prepared the charts and tables and checked the text; Gabriel Velasco checked its charts and
tables. Michael Keegan prepared the website graphics for this report. Molly Rohal was the copy
editor for this report.
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Appendix: Additional Charts and Tables
Table 3
Hispanic Child and Adult Populations,
2010 and 2000
ALL
CHILDREN
ADULTS
Hispanic Population (thousands)
2010
2000
Hispanic Population Growth,
2000-2010
Growth (thousands)
Growth (%)
50,478
17,132
33,346
35,306
12,342
22,964
15,172
4,790
10,382
43.0
38.8
45.2
Hispanic Share of Total (%)
2010
2000
16.3
23.1
14.2
12.5
17.1
11.0
Notes: Children are those younger than 18; Adults are those 18 years of age or
older.
Source: Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of U.S. Census Bureau Redistricting_FilesPL_94-171 for states
PEW HISPANIC CENTER
Table 4
States with Largest Hispanic
Populations, 2010
Table 5
States with Largest Hispanic
Share of Total Population, 2010
(thousands)
(%)
STATE
California
Texas
Florida
New York
Illinois
Arizona
New Jersey
Colorado
New Mexico
Georgia
North Carolina
Washington
STATE
POPULATION
HISPANIC SHARE
2,028
1,895
New Mexico
Texas
California
Arizona
Nevada
Florida
46.3%
37.6
37.6
29.6
26.5
22.5
1,555
1,039
953
854
800
756
Colorado
New Jersey
New York
Illinois
Connecticut
Utah
20.7
17.7
17.6
15.8
13.4
13.0
14,014
9,461
4,224
3,417
Source: Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of U.S. Census
Bureau Redistricting_Files-PL_94-171 for states
Source: Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of U.S. Census
Bureau Redistricting_Files-PL_94-171 for states
PEW HISPANIC CENTER
PEW HISPANIC CENTER
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Figure 1
U.S. Population by Race and
Ethnicity, 2010 and 2000
Figure 2
U.S. Population by Race and Ethnicity,
2010 and 2000
(%)
(%)
2010
2010
16.3
Hispanic
Hispanic
12.5
16.3%
White
63.7%
63.7
White
Black
69.1
12.2%
12.2
Black
Asian
Asian
4.7%
Other
3.0%
American Indian and
Alaska Native
Native Hawaiian and
Pacific Islander
2000
Hispanic
12.5%
White
69.1%
2000
Some other race
Black
12.1%
Two or more races
12.1
4.7
3.6
0.7
0.7
0.2
0.1
0.2
0.2
1.9
1.6
Asian
3.6%
Other
2.7%
Notes: Racial groups include only non-Hispanics. Hispanics are of any
race.
Source: Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of U.S. Census Bureau
Redistricting_Files-PL_94-171 for states
PEW HISPANIC CENTER
Notes: Racial groups include only non-Hispanics. Hispanics
are of any race.
Source: Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of U.S. Census
Bureau Redistricting_Files-PL_94-171 for states
PEW HISPANIC CENTER
www.pewhispanic.org
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Table 6: Hispanic Population by State, 2010 and 2000
HISPANIC POPULATION
(thousands)
2010
Rank
2000
United States
HISPANIC GROWTH
(%)
2000-2010
Rank
35,306
16.3
12.5
43
186
39
1,895
186
14,014
33
44
6
32
1
76
26
1,296
87
10,967
3.9
5.5
29.6
6.4
37.6
40
33
4
29
3
1.7
4.1
25.3
3.2
32.4
145
52
46
114
28
2
37
40
5
48
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
1,039
479
73
55
4,224
8
17
41
42
3
736
320
37
45
2,683
20.7
13.4
8.2
9.1
22.5
7
11
26
20
6
17.1
9.4
4.8
7.9
16.8
41
50
96
22
57
43
38
10
50
36
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
854
121
176
2,028
390
10
39
34
5
21
435
88
102
1,530
215
8.8
8.9
11.2
15.8
6.0
24
22
16
10
30
5.3
7.2
7.9
12.3
3.5
96
38
73
32
82
11
45
27
47
17
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
152
300
133
193
17
36
26
37
31
49
82
188
60
108
9
5.0
10.5
3.1
4.2
1.3
35
17
43
39
50
2.8
7.0
1.5
2.4
0.7
84
59
122
79
81
14
33
4
22
19
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
471
628
436
250
81
18
16
20
28
40
228
429
324
143
40
8.2
9.6
4.4
4.7
2.7
27
18
38
36
46
4.3
6.8
3.3
2.9
1.4
106
46
35
75
106
7
39
46
25
8
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
212
29
167
717
37
30
46
35
14
45
119
18
94
394
20
3.5
2.9
9.2
26.5
2.8
41
44
19
5
45
2.1
2.0
5.5
19.7
1.7
79
58
77
82
79
20
35
24
16
21
1,555
953
3,417
800
13
7
9
4
11
50
1,117
765
2,868
379
8
17.7
46.3
17.6
8.4
2.0
8
1
9
25
48
13.3
42.1
15.1
4.7
1.2
39
25
19
111
73
44
49
51
6
28
355
332
450
720
131
23
25
19
13
38
217
179
275
394
91
3.1
8.9
11.7
5.7
12.4
42
23
14
32
13
1.9
5.2
8.0
3.2
8.7
63
85
63
83
44
32
13
31
15
41
236
22
290
9,461
358
29
48
27
2
22
95
11
124
6,670
202
5.1
2.7
4.6
37.6
13.0
34
47
37
2
12
2.4
1.4
2.2
32.0
9.0
148
103
134
42
78
1
9
3
42
23
9
632
756
22
336
50
51
15
12
47
24
43
6
330
442
12
193
32
1.5
7.9
11.2
1.2
5.9
8.9
49
28
15
51
31
21
0.9
4.7
7.5
0.7
3.6
6.4
67
92
71
81
74
59
30
12
29
18
26
34
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
50,478
HISPANIC SHARE
(%)
2010
Rank
2000
Note: Growth and share are computed from unrounded data.
Source: Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of U.S. Census Bureau Redistricting_Files-PL_94-171 for states
PEW HISPANIC CENTER
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Table 7: Hispanic Child Population by State, 2010 and 2000
HISPANIC POPULATION
(thousands)
Rank
2000
2010
United States
HISPANIC GROWTH
(%)
2000-2010
Rank
12,342
23.1
17.1
39
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
67
15
704
75
4,756
34
43
6
31
1
25
10
493
32
4,051
5.9
7.9
43.2
10.5
51.2
39
34
4
29
2
2.2
5.4
36.1
4.7
43.8
170
44
43
134
17
3
38
39
6
48
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
374
160
27
12
1,105
8
19
40
45
3
259
116
14
11
703
30.5
19.6
13.2
11.9
27.6
6
13
24
26
7
23.5
13.7
7.0
9.9
19.3
45
38
100
5
57
37
42
12
51
32
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
315
45
73
723
154
9
39
32
5
20
136
35
43
552
76
12.6
14.9
17.0
23.1
9.6
25
19
15
8
31
6.3
11.9
11.6
17.0
4.8
131
29
70
31
103
7
47
26
46
11
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
63
122
50
54
5
35
26
37
36
49
33
74
19
31
4
8.7
16.8
4.9
4.9
2.0
33
16
43
44
50
4.5
10.4
1.9
2.5
1.2
93
65
165
78
53
15
31
4
23
35
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
148
211
172
101
27
21
15
18
28
41
72
158
123
56
12
11.0
14.9
7.3
7.9
3.5
28
20
37
35
48
5.3
10.5
4.8
4.3
1.6
106
34
39
82
120
9
44
40
20
8
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
81
11
69
262
14
30
46
33
13
44
43
7
37
146
8
5.7
5.0
15.1
39.4
4.8
40
41
18
5
45
3.0
3.2
8.3
28.6
2.5
89
52
86
79
77
16
36
18
22
24
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
461
302
975
308
5
7
11
4
10
50
339
259
893
120
3
22.3
58.2
22.5
13.5
3.6
10
1
9
22
47
16.2
50.9
19.0
6.1
2.0
36
17
9
156
69
43
49
50
5
29
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
136
133
180
260
46
24
25
17
14
38
80
70
108
149
35
5.0
14.3
20.8
9.3
20.5
42
21
11
32
12
2.8
7.9
12.7
5.1
14.1
69
89
67
75
31
27
17
30
25
45
82
9
108
3,318
144
29
47
27
2
22
28
5
39
2,387
78
7.5
4.5
7.2
48.3
16.5
36
46
38
3
17
2.8
2.2
2.8
40.5
10.9
192
104
178
39
84
1
10
2
41
19
3
205
299
8
136
18
51
16
12
48
23
42
2
103
177
4
75
12
2.2
11.1
18.9
1.9
10.2
13.4
49
27
14
51
30
23
1.2
5.9
11.7
1.0
5.5
9.0
57
100
69
93
81
56
33
13
28
14
21
34
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
17,132
HISPANIC SHARE
(%)
2010
Rank
2000
Note: Growth and share are computed from unrounded data. Children are those younger than 18.
Source: Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of U.S. Census Bureau Redistricting_Files-PL_94-171 for states
PEW HISPANIC CENTER
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