Hawaii Hispanic News
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2010 Census Shows America's Diversity By Marketwatch.com
population accounted for over half the 27.3 million increase in the total U.S. population. By 2010, Hispanics comprised 16 percent of the total U.S. population of 308.7 million. The non-Hispanic population grew relatively slower over the decade at about 5 percent. Within the non-Hispanic population, the number of people who reported their race as “white alone” grew even slower (1 percent). While the “non-
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Census Bureau just released the second in a series of 2010 Census briefs, “Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010”, which looks at our nation's changing racial and ethnic diversity and provides a snapshot of the racial and Hispanic origin composition of the U.S. The examination of racial and ethnic group distributions nationally shows that, while the “non-Hispanic white alone” population is still numerically and proportionally the largest major race and ethnic group in the U.S., it is also growing at the slowest rate. Conversely, the Hispanic and Asian populations have grown considerably, in part because of relatively higher levels of immigration. More than half of the growth in the total U.S. population between 2000 and 2010 was due to the increase in the Hispanic population. Between 2000 and 2010, the Hispanic H i s p a n i c white alone” population grew by 43 percent, rising population increased numerically from from 35.3 million in 2000 to 50.5 194.6 million to 196.8 million over the million in 2010. The rise in the Hispanic 10-year period, its proportion of the total
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population declined from 69 percent to combination. An additional 8 percent 64 percent. of the two or more races population The overwhelming majority (97 reported three races and less than 1 percent) of the total U.S. population percent reported four or more races. reported only one race in 2010. This Three quarters of multiple race group totaled 299.7 million. Of these, combinations were comprised of four the largest group reported “white alone” groups in 2010: white and black (1.8 (223.6 million), accounting million), white and "some other race" f o r 7 2 (1.7 million), white and Asian (1.6 million), and white and American Indian or Alaska Native (1.4 million). The population reporting their race as white, either alone or with at least one other race, was the largest of all the alone-or-incombination categories (231.0 million). It represented about threefourths of the total population. About 14 p e r c e n t o f a l l percent of the total population reported people living in the U.S. The black, their race as black, either alone or with or African-American, population totaled at least one other race, which was 38.9 million and represented 13 percent the second-largest of the alone-or-inof the total population. combination categories (42.0 million). Approximately 14.7 million people There were 21.7 million people (about 5 percent of all respondents) classified as some other race alone identified their race as “Asian alone.” or in combination and 17.3 million There were 2.9 million respondents people classified as Asian alone or who indicated “American Indian” and in combination in the 2010 Census, “Alaska Native alone” (0.9 percent). The making up 7 percent and 6 percent of smallest major race group was “Native the total population, respectively. The Hawaiian” and “Other Pacific Islander two smallest alone-or-in-combination alone” (0.5 million), which represented categories were American Indian and 0.2 percent of the total population. The Alaska Native (5.2 million) and Native remainder of respondents who reported Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander only one race, 19.1 million people (1.2 million), making up 2 percent (6 percent of all respondents), were and 0.4 percent of the total population, classified as "some other race" alone. respectively. Nine million people reported more The Asian alone population grew than one race in the 2010 Census and faster than any other major race group made up about 3 percent of the total between 2000 and 2010, increasing by population. Ninety-two percent of people 43 percent. The Asian alone population who reported multiple races provided had the second-largest numeric change exactly two races in 2010; white and (4.4 million), growing from 10.2 million black was the largest multiple-race SEE CENSUS 2010 PG.27