Racial & Ethnic Groups

About one-in-four Black households and one-in-seven Hispanic households had no wealth or were in debt in 2021, compared with about one-in-ten U.S. households overall.

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."

About three-quarters of Black adults in the United States say they see or hear news coverage about their local community at least sometimes.

Seven-in-ten Hispanic Americans say they’ve seen a doctor or other health care provider in the past year, compared with 82% among Americans overall.

A rising share of Asian Americans say they have no religion (32%), but many consider themselves close to one or more religious traditions for reasons such as family or culture. Christianity is still the largest faith group among Asian Americans (34%).

Read about some of the ways focus group participants with ties to different faith traditions explain the complex relationship of religion and culture in their lives.

In 2021, nearly 2.5 million Latinos in the United States held advanced degrees such as master’s degrees or doctorates.

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.

97% of Asian Americans registered to vote say a candidate’s policy positions are more important than their race or ethnicity when deciding whom to vote for.