The State of Hispanic Population in Long Beach, California By Kate Nash As of data from the 2020 census, Long Beach had a population of 452,917 and currently the 7th largest city in California. About 88.2 percent of the population in Long Beach are US citizens. As of 2019, there were 1.18 times more non-Hispanic White residents than any other race in the city and about 111,000 White Hispanics and 80.1K other Hispanics in the city representing the second and third most common ethnic groups.
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his means that about 44.8% of the population in Long Beach are Hispanics. It is important that we understand this as it forms our topic in this article. Even though Hispanics forms nearly half of Long Beach’s population, the residents who identify themselves as Hispanics go through various socioeconomic challenges compared to other ethnicities in the city.
and industrial related jobs than we have in business or management related jobs. This has a huge impact economic wise as employed Latinos have an economic impact of $34.3 billion representing 38.1% of Long Beach’s total economic impact in LA and Orange counties. The Latino households contribute 36% of all federal, state and local tax revenues generated by Long Beach households.
According to Long Beach Latino Economic Report inaccessibility to digital resources, lack of higher education, housing and health care are among the top challenges Latinos face in Long Beach. Yet, they are the region’s underserved minority population despite being the dominant force in the city.
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Employment data from the same report shows that the Latino community led other ethnicities in the labor force participation. At least 102,209 Latinos in the city participate in the civilian labor force which means 4 in 10 people of all the working residents are Latinos. The sectors where we find Latinos participating more in terms of employment is in Manufacturing MAY 2022 | 75
