Latinos may have eclipsed non-Hispanic whites as the dominant population in Texas, according to new data from the Census Bureau.
The metrics: Texas Latinos make up 40.2% of the state’s population in 2021, while non-Hispanic Texans made up 39.4%. The estimates come from the bureau’s American Community Survey for 2021. While not as certain as a decennial census, the finding highlights a prediction that demographers have made for decades.
In the ACS estimates of July 2021, a third of the state is of Mexican origin, 1% is of Puerto Rican ancestry, followed by Cubans and then by “other Latinos,” who make up about 6%, according to the data released Thursday.
