{"id":63096,"date":"2012-09-19T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2012\/09\/19\/english-proficiency-and-u-s-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:11:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:11:48","slug":"english-proficiency-and-u-s-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2012\/09\/19\/english-proficiency-and-u-s-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"IV. English Proficiency and U.S. Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;english-proficiency&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"english-proficiency\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">English Proficiency<\/h3>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/09\/09-11-12-Metro-Areas-09.png\"><img data-dominant-color=\"605c5a\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #605c5a;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15231 not-transparent\" title=\"09-11-12-Metro-Areas-09\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/09\/09-11-12-Metro-Areas-09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"474\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Among the 10 largest Hispanic metropolitan areas, San Antonio has the highest share of Hispanics ages 5 and older who are proficient in English (81%)\u2014that is, who speak only English at home or who otherwise speak English \u201cvery well.\u201d<\/p><\/li>\n<li>By comparison, slightly more than half (52%) of Hispanics ages 5 and older in Miami are proficient in English.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly two-thirds (65%) of all U.S. Hispanics ages 5 and older are proficient in English.<\/li>\n<li>Other than San Antonio, two metropolitan areas among the top 60 have rates of English proficiency above 80%. Albuquerque, N.M., has an 85% proficiency rate among Hispanics ages 5 and older and Corpus Christi, Texas, is second with 84%; they are ranked 26th and 46th in Hispanic population, respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3 data-is-section=\"true\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;u-s-citizenship&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/table-of-contents&quot;}\" id=\"u-s-citizenship\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">U.S. Citizenship<\/h3>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/09\/09-11-12-Metro-Areas-101.png\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e5e6e3\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e5e6e3;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15232 not-transparent\" title=\"09-11-12-Metro-Areas-10\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/09\/09-11-12-Metro-Areas-101.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"425\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>San Antonio has the highest rate of U.S. citizenship among Hispanics in the top 10 metropolitan areas (88%). Its share is well above the other metro areas in the top 10. (Riverside is second with 78%.)<\/p><\/li>\n<li>Miami has the lowest rate of U.S. citizenship among its Hispanic population (66%).<\/li>\n<li>Nearly three-quarters (74%) of all U.S. Hispanics are U.S. citizens by birth or naturalization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Proficiency Among the 10 largest Hispanic metropolitan areas, San Antonio has the highest share of Hispanics ages 5 and older who are proficient in English (81%)\u2014that is, who speak only English at home or who otherwise speak English \u201cvery well.\u201d By comparison, slightly more than half (52%) of Hispanics ages 5 and older in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sub_headline":"","sub_title":"","_crdt_document":"","_prc_public_revisions":[],"_ppp_expiration_hours":0,"_ppp_enabled":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","relatedPosts":[],"reportMaterials":[],"multiSectionReport":[],"package_parts__enabled":false,"package_parts":[],"_prc_fork_parent":0,"_prc_fork_status":"","_prc_active_fork":0,"datacite_doi":"","datacite_doi_citation":"","_prc_seo_qr_attachment_id":0,"spoken_article_player_enabled":true,"displayBylines":true,"footnotes":"","prc_watchers":[]},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"bylines":[759,754],"collection":[],"datasets":[],"level_of_effort":[],"primary_audience":[],"information_type":[],"_post_visibility":[],"formats":[458],"_fund_pool":[],"languages":[],"regions-countries":[],"research-teams":[523],"workflow-status":[],"class_list":["post-63096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hispanics-latinos-and-language","bylines-eileen-patten","bylines-seth-motel","formats-report","research-teams-race-and-ethnicity"],"label":false,"post_parent":63079,"word_count":179,"canonical_url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2012\/09\/19\/english-proficiency-and-u-s-citizenship\/","art_direction":false,"_embeds":[],"watchers":[],"table_of_contents":[{"id":63079,"title":"Characteristics of the 60 Largest Metropolitan Areas by Hispanic Population","slug":"characteristics-of-the-60-largest-metropolitan-areas-by-hispanic-population","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2012\/09\/19\/characteristics-of-the-60-largest-metropolitan-areas-by-hispanic-population\/","is_active":false},{"id":63065,"title":"II. 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