Race & Ethnicity

Black and Hispanic adults are more likely than whites to say they feel a need to change the way they talk around people of other races and ethnicities.

Today’s active duty military is smaller and more racially and ethnically diverse than in previous generations. More women are officers.

Overall, 293 U.S. counties were majority nonwhite in 2018. Most of these are concentrated in California, the South and on the East Coast.

Americans are divided along racial lines in their views on the legacy of slavery, the best way to achieve diversity and the value they place on their own racial and ethnic identity. Let's look at 11 questions from a recent survey to see what you think and how that compares with the rest of the nation.

Latinos as percent of population, by state, 2014

Much of the downturn in the share of immigrant births to Hispanics has been driven by a decline in births among Mexican-origin women.

Around a quarter of college faculty in the U.S. were nonwhite in fall 2017, compared with 45% of students.

In 18 states and the District of Columbia, Latino children accounted for at least 20% of public school kindergarten students in 2017.

The most common age was 11 for Hispanics, 27 for blacks and 29 for Asians as of last July. Multiracial Americans were by far the youngest racial or ethnic group.

The population of Puerto Rico stood at 3.2 million in 2018, its lowest point since 1979 and down sharply from 2017.