The highest concentration of black Americans remains in the South, which, as a region, houses 58% of the nation’s black population. Asian residents, often with other minority groups, are highly represented in California, Washington, Texas, portions of the Southeast, large metropolitan areas, and small towns in all parts of the country. county are available interactively by clicking areas on the map).īy this definition, Hispanic residents are highly represented in a swath of counties from California to Texas as well as parts of the Mountain West, the Southeast, urbanized parts of the North and many smaller places in the nation’s interior. 3 Examples of the latter are Queens County, N.Y., Harris County, Texas, Gwinnett County, Ga., and Solano County, Calif., where each of the three biggest minority groups are a larger portion of the local population than they are nationally. 2 Also identified are counties where two or more minorities are highly represented. Map 1 depicts counties where these groups-as well as American Indian or Alaska Natives-are highly represented, comprising a higher share of a county’s total population than for the nation as a whole.
**Two or more minority groups are highly represented or persons identified as multiracial are highly represented Frey analysis of US Census population estimates, 2018Ī group is highly represented if its share of the area population is larger than its share of the national population for Hispanics (18.3%), blacks (12.5%), and Asians, Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders (5.9%) and at least 4% for American Indians/Alaska Natives, or persons identifying as multiracial
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