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Hispanic origin profiles, 2017
Explore data on the 15 largest U.S. Hispanic groups by origin.
Reflecting a demographic shift, 109 U.S. counties have become majority nonwhite since 2000
Overall, 293 U.S. counties were majority nonwhite in 2018. Most of these are concentrated in California, the South and on the East Coast.
Demographic and Economic Profiles of Hispanics by State and County, 2014
Latinos as percent of population, by state, 2014
Puerto Rico Population
Total U.S. Puerto Rican population mapped by county in 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2013.
Puerto Rican Population by County
Total U.S. Puerto Rican population mapped by county, including a filter for island-born and mainland-born Puerto Ricans. Data is available from 2000 and 2010.
Hispanic women no longer account for the majority of immigrant births in the U.S.
Much of the downturn in the share of immigrant births to Hispanics has been driven by a decline in births among Mexican-origin women.
College faculty have become more racially and ethnically diverse, but remain far less so than students
Around a quarter of college faculty in the U.S. were nonwhite in fall 2017, compared with 45% of students.
A view of the nation’s future through kindergarten demographics
In 18 states and the District of Columbia, Latino children accounted for at least 20% of public school kindergarten students in 2017.
The most common age among whites in U.S. is 58 – more than double that of racial and ethnic minorities
The most common age was 11 for Hispanics, 27 for blacks and 29 for Asians as of last July. Multiracial Americans were by far the youngest racial or ethnic group.
Puerto Rico’s population declined sharply after hurricanes Maria and Irma
The population of Puerto Rico stood at 3.2 million in 2018, its lowest point since 1979 and down sharply from 2017.