Race and Ethnicity

reportSep 16, 2009

Hispanics of Salvadoran Origin in the United States, 2007

A total of 1.5 million Hispanics of Salvadoran origin resided in the United States in 2007, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
reportSep 16, 2009

Hispanics of Dominican Origin in the United States, 2007

A total of 1.2 million Hispanics of Dominican origin resided in the United States in 2007, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
reportJul 22, 2009

Mexican Immigrants: How Many Come? How Many Leave?

The flow of immigrants from Mexico to the United States has declined sharply since mid-decade, but there is no evidence of an increase during this period in the number of Mexican-born migrants returning home from the U.S.
reportJul 13, 2009

Hispanics of Puerto Rican Origin in the United States, 2007

Some 4.1 million Hispanics of Puerto Rican origin resided in the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia in 2007, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
reportMay 28, 2009

Latino Children: A Majority Are U.S.-Born Offspring of Immigrants

Hispanics now make up 22% of all children under the age of 18 in the United States–up from 9% in 1980–and as their numbers have grown, their demographic profile has changed.
reportMay 28, 2009

Who’s Hispanic?

The question of who’s Hispanic — and who isn’t — turns out to be pretty complicated.
reportMay 12, 2009

Minorities, Immigrants and Homeownership

The boom-and-bust cycle in the U.S. housing market over the past decade and a half has generated greater gains and larger losses for minority groups than it has for whites, according to an analysis of housing, economic and demographic data.
reportApr 30, 2009

Dissecting the 2008 Electorate: Most Diverse in U.S. History

The electorate in last year’s presidential election was the most racially and ethnically diverse in U.S. history, with nearly one-in-four votes cast by non-whites, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data.
reportApr 15, 2009

Mexican Immigrants in the United States, 2008

This statistical profile describes the demographic, employment and income characteristics of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. using data from the March 2008 Current Population Survey.
reportApr 14, 2009

A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States

The nation’s 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants are more geographically dispersed than in the past, according to a new demographic and geographic analysis of this group that includes population and labor force estimates for each state.