Latinos more concerned about housing costs, crime and drug use than Coloradans overall, poll shows

Rica Rodriguez, with a group called Promotores de Esperanza, restocks a display with free boxes of the opioid overdose drug naloxone for people to take at Parkway Discount Liquors in Commerce City, Colorado on Aug. 21, 2024. A spring 2024 poll found Latinos are more concerned about drug use and overdoses than the general population. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post) Hispanic Coloradans were more likely than the general population to consider the cost of housing, crime, drug use and undocumented immigration to be major problems, according to data released from a poll taken this spring.

The annual Pulse poll , sponsored by the Colorado Health Foundation, asked about 2,400 adult Coloradans, including about 500 Latinos, about their personal and financial wellbeing, and how serious they considered a range of problems in the state.

People who are Hispanic have ancestry in any Spanish-speaking part of the world, while Latinos trace their families to Latin America. Since the vast majority of Colorado’s Hispanic population is of Latin American descent, the pollsters used the two terms interchangeably. Both groups can include people of any race or combination of races.

Latinos’ top concerns were largely the same as the general population’s, with the cost of […]

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