Immigration & Migration

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 47.9 million in 2022, up about a third (32%) since 2000.

Although especially common in California and Texas, Mexican restaurants are found in a large majority of counties in the U.S.

The median wealth of immigrant households increased by 42% from December 2019 to December 2021.

Most Asian adults in the U.S. have been treated as a foreigner or experienced incidents where people assume they are a "model minority."

The unauthorized immigrant population in the United States reached 10.5 million in 2021. That was a modest increase over 2019 but nearly identical to 2017.

In 2021, there were 2.6 million foreign-born Hispanics who had been in the U.S. for five years or less. This is down from 3.8 million in 2000.

The U.S. population grew by 24.5 million from 2010 to 2022, and Hispanics accounted for 53% of this increase.

Most U.S. Latinos speak Spanish: 75% say they are able to carry on a conversation in Spanish pretty well or very well. But not all Latinos are Spanish speakers, and about half (54%) of non-Spanish-speaking Latinos have been shamed by other Latinos for not speaking Spanish.

32% of U.S.-born Asian adults have hidden a part of their heritage, compared with 15% of immigrants.

In 2022, there were 63.7 million Hispanics living in the United States. The U.S. Hispanic population has diverse origins in Latin America and Spain.