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U.S. Hispanic Country-of-Origin Counts for Nation, Top 30 Metropolitan Areas
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U.S. Hispanic Country-of-Origin Counts for Nation and Top 30 Metropolitan Areas
About the Pew Hispanic Center The Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization that seeks to improve public understanding of the diverse Hispanic population in the United States and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the nation. It does not take positions on policy issues. The Center is part of the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan "fact tank" based in Washington, D.C., and it is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, a Philadelphia-based public charity. All of the Center’s reports are available at www.pewhispanic.org. The staff of the Pew Hispanic Center is: Paul Taylor, Director Rakesh Kochhar, Associate Director for Research
Mark Hugo Lopez, Associate Director
Richard Fry, Senior Research Associate
Jeffrey S. Passel, Senior Demographer
Gretchen Livingston, Senior Researcher
Gabriel Velasco, Research Analyst
Daniel Dockterman, Research Assistant
Mary Seaborn, Administrative Manager
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1 U.S. Hispanic Country-of-Origin Counts for Nation and Top 30 Metropolitan Areas
About this Report This report examines the Hispanic population of the United States by its 10 largest country-oforigin sub-groups, both at the national level and in the 30 metropolitan areas with the largest Hispanic populations. The data for this report are derived from the 2010 U.S. Census and from the 2009 American Community Survey. The 2010 Census provides population counts for Hispanic origin subgroups. The 2009 American Community Survey provides detailed geographic, demographic and economic characteristics for each group. Accompanying this report are profiles of the 10 largest Hispanic country-of-origin subgroups—Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Salvadorans, Cubans, Dominicans, Guatemalans, Colombians, Hondurans, Ecuadorians and Peruvians. An interactive graphic analyzing country-of-origin data among the nation’s 30 metropolitan statistical areas with the largest Hispanic populations is also available. About the Authors Mark Hugo Lopez is the associate director of the Pew Hispanic Center. Prior to joining the Center, Lopez was research director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement as well as a research assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. His areas of expertise include Latino youth, crime, labor economics, civic engagement and voting behavior. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. Daniel Dockterman is a research assistant at the Pew Hispanic Center. Dockterman earned his B.A. in psychology and economics from the University of Virginia. He will begin Doctoral Studies in advanced quantitative methods at the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education in the Fall. Acknowledgements The authors thank Paul Taylor for editorial guidance. Paul Taylor, D’Vera Cohn, Michael Keegan, Rakesh Kochhar and Jeffrey Passel provided comments. Gretchen Livingston checked numbers in the report. Molly Rohal was the copy editor.
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Hispanics in the U.S. by Country of Origin, 2010 Hispanics of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban origin or descent remain the nation’s three largest Hispanic country-of-origin groups, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. However, while the relative position of these three groups has remained unchanged since 2000, the next four Hispanic sub-groups grew faster during the decade. Hispanics of Salvadoran origin, the fourth largest country-of-origin group, grew by 152% since 2000. The Dominican population grew by 85%, the Guatemalan population by 180% and the Colombian population by 93%. Meanwhile, the Cuban and Puerto Rican populations grow more slowly—44% and 36% respectively (Ennis, Ríos-Vargas and Albert, 2011). 1 Country of origin is based on self-described family ancestry or place of birth in response to questions in the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and on the 2010 Census form. It is not necessarily the same as place of birth, nor is it indicative of immigrant or
Table 1 U.S. Hispanic Population, by Country of Origin, 2010 POPULATION (thousands) Origin Group Mexican Puerto Rican All other Hispanic Cuban Salvadoran
SHARE (%)
31,798 4,624 3,452 1,786 1,649
63.0 9.2 6.8 3.5 3.3
Dominican Guatemalan Colombian Spaniard Honduran
1,415 1,044 909 635 633
2.8 2.1 1.8 1.3 1.3
Ecuadorian Peruvian Nicaraguan Argentinean Venezuelan
565 531 348 225 215
1.1 1.1 0.7 0.4 0.4
Panamanian Chilean Costa Rican Bolivian Uruguayan
165 127 126 99 57
0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1
32 22 20
0.1
