About 1 in 10 restaurants in the U.S. serve Mexican food
Although especially common in California and Texas, Mexican restaurants are found in a large majority of counties in the U.S.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Although especially common in California and Texas, Mexican restaurants are found in a large majority of counties in the U.S.
There were nearly 62.5 million Latinos in the United States in 2021, accounting for approximately 19% of the total U.S. population.
In 2020, Afro-Latino Americans made up about 2% of the U.S. adult population and 12% of the adult Latino population.
Most Latino immigrants say they would come to the U.S. again.
At least 76 of the voting members of the 117th Congress are foreign born or have at least one parent born in another country.
California has more immigrant eligible voters (5.5 million) than any other state, followed by New York, Florida, Texas and New Jersey.
The educational attainment of recently arrived Latino immigrants in the U.S. has reached its highest level in at least three decades.
An estimated 830,000 Hispanics of Ecuadorian origin lived in the United States in 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
The number of Hispanic registered voters in Florida has increased 6.2% since the 2016 presidential election, to a record 2.1 million people. Hispanics now make up a record 16.4% of Florida’s registered voters, up from 15.7% in 2016.
The U.S. Latino population, the principal driver of U.S. demographic growth since 2000, has itself evolved during this time.
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