Brianne Juarez, 13, with Mariachi Fuego practices before performing at the Mariachi Festival in Salt Lake City on July 19. A new Census Bureau tool provides readily accessible data detailing the explosive expansion of the nation’s Latino community. Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes
WASHINGTON — With the explosive expansion of the Latino population in the United States, the U.S. Census Bureau has created an online data tool that details its growth and the changes within varied segments of the community.
The interactive data visualization taps census data from 2000, 2010 and 2020 “to allow users to view changes in regional and detailed Hispanic or Latino groups such as Mexican, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran and Colombian over time,” reads the announcement of the new tool. The data, depicted only on a nationwide basis and not state by state, is already on the census.gov website, but the new tool offers specific information about the Latino and Hispanic population in a more readily accessible format. The image shows some of the data featured in a new online U.S. Census Bureau tool focused on the Latino population, the key motor to U.S. population growth. (Photo: U.S. Census Bureau) Latinos were a key motor to U.S. population […]
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