Key facts about U.S. Latinos for National Hispanic Heritage Month
The U.S. population grew by 24.5 million from 2010 to 2022, and Hispanics accounted for 53% of this increase.
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The U.S. population grew by 24.5 million from 2010 to 2022, and Hispanics accounted for 53% of this increase.
Latinos are expected for the first time to be the nation’s largest racial or ethnicity minority in a U.S. presidential election.
The face of Catholic America is changing. Today, immigrants make up a considerable share of Catholics, and many are Hispanic. At the same time, there has been a regional shift, from the Northeast (long home to a large percentage of the Catholic faithful) and Midwest to the Western and Southern parts of the U.S.
More Hispanics are already enrolled in college than ever before and, among those who are, nearly half (46%) attend a public two-year school, the highest share of any race or ethnicity.
Facts and figures to mark National Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15.
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