1. U.S. Hispanic Population and Purchasing Power
Hispanic Population and Purchasing Power
52.0 million: The Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2011, making people of Hispanic origin the nation's largest ethnic or race minority. Hispanics constituted 16.7 percent of the nation's total population. In addition, there are 3.7 million residents of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory.
Source: 2011 Population Estimates< http://www.census.gov/popest/data/national/asrh/2011/index.html>.
1.3 million: The number of Hispanics added to the nation's population between July 1, 2010, and July 1, 2011. This number is more than half of the approximately 2.3 million added to the nation's population during this period.
Source: 2011 Population Estimates
National Characteristics: Population by Sex, Race, and Hispanic origin< http://www.census.gov/popest/data/national/asrh/2011/index.html>
2.5%: The percentage increase in the Hispanic population between 2010 and 2011.
Source: 2011 Population Estimates
National Characteristics: Population by Sex, Race, and Hispanic origin< http://www.census.gov/popest/data/national/asrh/2011/index.html>
132.8 million: The projected Hispanic population of the United States on July 1, 2050. According to this projection, Hispanics will constitute 30 percent of the nation's population by that date.
Source: Population Projections < http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/population/cb08-123.html>
50.5 million: The number of Hispanics counted during the 2010 Census. This was about a 43 percent increase from the Hispanic population in the 2000 Census, which was 35.3 million.
Source: The Hispanic Population: 2010 < http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf>
2nd: The ranking of the size of the U.S. Hispanic population worldwide, as of 2010. Only Mexico (112 million) had a larger Hispanic population than the United States (50.5 million).
Source: International Data Base < http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbsum.html>
63%: The percentage of Hispanic-origin people in the United States who were of Mexican background in 2010. Another 9.2 percent were of Puerto Rican background, 3.5 percent Cuban, 3.3 percent Salvadoran and 2.8 percent Dominican. The remainder was of some other Central American, South American or other Hispanic/Latino origin.
Source: The Hispanic Population: 2010 < http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf>
States and Counties
Florida: The state with the highest median age, 34, within the Hispanic population.
Source: 2011 Population Estimates
State Characteristics: Median Age by Race and Hispanic Origin< http://www.census.gov/popest/data/state/asrh/2011/index.html>
14.4 million: The estimated population for those of Hispanic-origin in California as of July 1, 2011.
Source: 2011 Population Estimates State Characteristics: Population by Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin< http://www.census.gov/popest/data/state/asrh/2011/index.html>
8:The number of states that have a population of 1 million or more Hispanic residents -- Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Texas.
Source: 2011 Population Estimates State Characteristics: Population by Race and Hispanic Origin
< http://www.census.gov/popest/data/state/asrh/2011/index.html>
More than 50%: The percent of all the Hispanic population that live in California, Florida, and Texas as of July 1, 2011.
Source: 2011 Population Estimates State Characteristics: Population by Race and Hispanic Origin
< http://www.census.gov/popest/data/state/asrh/2011/index.html>
46.7%: The percentage of New Mexico's population that was Hispanic as of July 1, 2011, the highest of any state.
Source: 2011 Population Estimates State Characteristics: Population by Race and Hispanic Origin
< http://www.census.gov/popest/data/state/asrh/2011/index.html>
147.9%: The percentage increase in the Hispanic population in South Carolina between April 1, 2000, and April 1, 2010, the highest of any state. Alabama had the second highest increase, with 144.8 percent.
Source: The Hispanic Population: 2010 < http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf>
4.7 million: The Hispanic population of Los Angeles County, Calif., in 2010. This is the highest of any county.
Source: The Hispanic Population: 2010 < http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf>
82: The number of the nation's 3,143 counties that were majority-Hispanic.
Source: The Hispanic Population: 2010< http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf>
25: The number of states in which Hispanics were the largest minority group. These states were Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming.
Source: American FactFinder: United States DP-1< http://factfinder2.census.gov>
HISPANIC PURCHASING POWER
The estimated purchasing power of Hispanics in the U.S. was $1.2 trillion in 2012 according to the Selig Center for Economic Growth (Atlanta, GA); making the Hispanic market larger than the entire economies of all but 13 countries in the world.