A Demographic Profile
Passel, Jeffrey
While the Latino population of the United States is some-sshat more disrsed than it was ten years ago, it remains concentrated in a few states [see Table 11, and a few metropolitan areas. The Latino...
...On the other hand, just over 5% of Latinos are over age 65 compared to over 13% for non Latinos...
...Almost 30% of Latinos are under age IS compared to only about 21% of non-Latinos...
...The role of immigration is also reflected in the sex composition of the Latino population...
...tIcem-ber 1991...
...Washington...
...Legal immigrants tend to be balanced fairly evenly between males and females, but the undocumented group tends to he much more heavily male...
...another lihad Latino populationsexceeding 100,000 with five of the between 200.000 and 300,000...
...Total 22.354,059 x 9.0' . 100 California 7.687,938 1 25.8 34.4 Texas 4,339,905 2 25.5 19.4 New York 2.214,026 1 12.3 9.9 Florida 1,574,143 4 12.2 7.0 Illinois 904.446 5 7.9 4.0 New Jersey 739,861 6 9.6 3.3 Arizona 688.338 7 18.8 3.1 New Mexico 579,224 8 38.2 2.6 Colorado 424.302 9 12.9 1.9 Percent of total U.S...
...Source: U.S...
...Among Latinos, there are 104 males for every 100 females...
...These II states were, in descending order...
...This imbalance was especially evident for the approximately one million agricultural workers legalized under the Immigration Reform and Control (Act, who were almost entirely male (82%) and)between the ages of 20 and 44 (88% ),** TABLE 1 States With the Largest Latino Populations 1990 Latino % of % of U.S...
...Geo-aphicdiversification.coup1ed withcontinuingconcentration.arearesultottherapidgrowth intheLatinopopulationaridlarge-scaleimmigrationoverthe last several decades...
...The Latino population is markedly younger, reflecting the relatively high fertility of Latinos and the contribution of inunigrants, who tend to be young adults, often with fmi1ies...
...The Latino population differs substantially from the nonLatino population in its basic age-sex structure...
...Pas.sel is director o,f the Program for Research on Inniigiatton Policy at the Urban In ctitute...
...Population Rank State Latinos U.S...
...Pennsyl%a nia, Washington, Connecticut, Michigan, Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Nevada, Oregon and Georgia...
...Bureau of the Census...
...population Note: Latinos are also gaining an increased presence in otherparts ofthe country...
...The Latino population reached 2 million in the 1990 Census count, an crease of 7.7 million, or 53%, ocr thel9SO count [see Table 21...
...This composition contrasts with the non -Latino gender ratio of 94 males per 100 females...
...Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin Infonnation from the 1990 census," Repoil 1990 PH -74 Waslngton, August 1991 . **tJ.S...
...Age...
...Virtually all of the difference in sex comxsi-tion occurs between ages 15 and 39, where the very high Latino sex ratios can be explained by the impact of immigra tion...
...population.' This relative youth is reflected at both extremes of the age distribution...
...The impact of' iizanigration on the growth of the population is evidenced by the Census estimate that over 40% of Latinos, or more than 9 million persons, were born outside the United States...
...Latinos also remain more likely to live in poverty than non-Latinos Isee Table 31...
...Latinos have a median age of 25.3 years versus 33.6 years for the balance of the U.S...
...Immigration and Naturalization Service, "Provisional Application Statistics," Statistics Division...
...Massachusetts...
...Decennial census, 1990 *U.S...
...In addition to the top nine Latino states 1990...
Vol. 26 • September 1992 • No. 2
