U.S. Department of Commerce

Economics and Statistics Administration

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

The Foreign Born From Latin 

America and the Caribbean: 2010

American Community Survey Briefs

Issued September 2011

ACSBR/10-15

By

Yesenia D. Acosta 

and

G. Patricia de la Cruz

INTRODUCTION

During the last 50 years, the 

number of foreign born from Latin 

America and the Caribbean has 

increased rapidly, from less than 

1 million in 1960 to 21.2 million in 

2010.1 Currently, the foreign born 

from Latin America represent over 

half of the total foreign-born population. This brief will discuss the 

size, place of birth, citizenship status, and geographic distribution of 

the foreign born from Latin America 

in the United States. It presents 

data on the foreign born from Latin 

America at the national and state 

levels based on the 2010 American 

Community Survey (ACS). 

1 The term Latin America and the 

Caribbean includes countries in Central and 

South America and the Caribbean. Central 

America includes Belize, Costa Rica, El 

Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, 

Nicaragua, and Panama. South America

includes Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, 

Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French 

Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, 

Uruguay, and Venezuela. Caribbean includes 

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, 

Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, 

Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, 

Dominican Republic, Grenada, the former 

country of Guadeloupe (including St. 

Barthélemy and Saint-Martin), Haiti, Jamaica, 

Martinique, Montserrat, the former country of the Netherlands Antilles (including 

Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and 

Sint Maarten), St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, 

St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad 

and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands. 

Note that people born in Puerto Rico and 

the U.S. Virgin Islands are native born to the 

United States and are not included in the list 

of countries in the Caribbean. Throughout 

the remainder of this report, the term Latin 

America refers to all of these areas. 

In 2010, 309.3 million people lived in 

the United States, including 40.0 million foreign born (13 percent of the total 

population). In 2000, 31.1 million of the 

281.4 million U.S. residents were foreign 

born—11 percent of the total population.2

Over the decade, the foreign-born population increased by 8.8 million. 

Over half (53 percent) of all foreign-born 

U.S. residents in 2010 were from Latin 

America (Table 1). Another 28 percent 

were from Asia. The next largest world 

region-of-birth group, the foreign born 

2 Gibson, Campbell and Kay Jung. 2006. “Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population 

in the United States: 1850 to 2000.” U.S. Census 

Bureau: Population Division Working Paper, Number 81 available on the Census Bureau’s Web site at 

<www.census.gov/population/www/techpap.html>.

Defining Nativity Status:

Who Is Foreign Born?

Nativity status refers to whether a 

person is native or foreign born. The 

native-born population includes anyone 

who was a U.S. citizen at birth. 

Respondents who were born in the 

United States, Puerto Rico, a U.S. Island 

Area (U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 

American Samoa, or the Commonwealth 

of the Northern Mariana Islands), or 

abroad of a U.S. citizen parent or 

parents, are defined as native born. The 

foreign-born population includes anyone 

who was not a U.S. citizen at birth, 

including those who have become U.S. 

citizens through naturalization. 
2 U.S. Census Bureau

from Europe, represented 12 

percent of all foreign born—less 

than half the size of the foreign 

born from Asia. About 4 percent 

of the foreign born were born 

in Africa and 3 percent were 

from other regions, including 

Oceania and Northern America. 

The single largest country-ofbirth group was from Mexico (29 

percent of all foreign born). 

FINDINGS

In 2000, 16.1 million foreign 

born from Latin America lived 

in the United States. Over the 

last 10 years, the foreign-born 

population from Latin America 

increased by 5.1 million, 

reaching 21.2 million in 2010. 

The majority of the foreign born 

from Latin America were from 

Central America (70 percent), 

followed by the Caribbean 

(18 percent), and South America 

(13 percent) (Table 2). Mexico 

accounted for more than half 

(55 percent) of the foreign born 

from Latin America. El Salvador 

and Cuba each represented 

more than 5 percent. Among the 

foreign born from the Caribbean, 

those born in Cuba (30 percent) 

and the Dominican Republic (24 

percent) represented the largest 

proportion of all foreign born. 

Over three-fourths of all foreign 

born from Central America were 

born in Mexico (79 percent). 

Colombia represented the largest 

share of the foreign born from 

South America (23 percent). 

Although the foreign born 

from Latin America were found 

across the country, most were 

concentrated in only a few states. 

In 2010, 26 percent (or 5.5 

million) of the foreign born from 

Latin America lived in California, 

14 percent (or 3.0 million) in 

Texas, 13 percent (or 2.8 million) 

Table 1. 

Foreign-Born Population by Region of Birth: 2010 

(Numbers in thousands. Data based on sample. For information on confidentiality 

protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see www.census.gov

/acs/www)

Region of birth

Number Percent 

Estimate

Margin of 

error (±)1 Estimate

Margin of 

error (±)1

 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,956 115 100.0 (X)

Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,607 33 4.0 0.1

Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,284 47 28.2 0.1

Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,817 44 12.1 0.1

Latin America and the Caribbean . . . 21,224 90 53.1 0.1

Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,731 42 9.3 0.1

Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,764 90 36.9 0.2

 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,711 83 29.3 0.2

 Other Central America 2 . . . . . . . 3,053 46 7.6 0.1

South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,730 42 6.8 0.1

Other regions 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,024 19 2.6 –

– Represents or rounds to zero.

(X) Not applicable.

1

 Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. A margin of error is a measure 

of an estimate’s variability. The larger the margin of error is in relation to the size of the estimate, the less 

reliable the estimate. This number when added to and subtracted from the estimate forms the 90 percent 

confidence interval.

2

 Other Central America includes Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, 

and Panama.

3

 Other regions includes Oceania and Northern America.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey.

Figure 1. 

Distribution of the Latin American and Caribbean 

Foreign Born by State: 2010

(Percent distribution. Data based on sample. For information on 

confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and 

definitions, see www.census.gov/acs/www)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey. 

California

25.8

Texas

14.2

Florida

13.0

New Jersey

4.0

Illinois

4.0

All other states

28.9

New York

10.2
U.S. Census Bureau 3

in Florida, and 10 percent (or 

2.2 million) in New York (Figure 

1). When combined, these four 

states accounted for 63 percent 

(or 13.4 million) of the total 

Latin American foreign born. 

In 19 states, the foreign-born 

population from Latin America 

composed over half of the state’s 

foreign-born population (Figure 

2). In the South and West, the 

foreign-born population from Latin 

America represented 65 percent 

or more of the total foreign-born 

population in Arizona, Arkansas, 

Florida, New Mexico, and Texas. 

In Florida and New Mexico, 

approximately 75 percent of the 

foreign-born population were born 

in Latin America. In just nine states, 

the foreign-born population from 

Latin America represented less 

than 25 percent of the foreign-born 

population. In Maine and North 

Dakota, they were approximately 

10 percent. In Hawaii, they 

were less than 10 percent. 

In over three-fourths of all states 

and the District of Columbia, the 

foreign-born populations from 

Central America represented more 

than half of the Latin American 

foreign born (Table 3). The foreign 

born from Mexico represented 

about 9 out of 10 foreign born 

from Latin America in New 

Mexico, Arizona, and Idaho. The 

foreign born from the Caribbean 

represented about one-third of 

the Latin American foreign born 

in seven states. Two of these 

states—Florida (55 percent) and 

New York (49 percent)—each 

have Latin American foreign-born 

populations of 2 million or more. 

In 2010, 32 percent of the foreignborn population from Latin America 

were naturalized citizens (Table 4). 

The foreign-born population from 

Central America had the lowest 

percent naturalized of all regions 

of birth (24 percent). Of those born 

in the Caribbean, 54 percent were 

naturalized citizens. About 44 

percent of the foreign born from 

South America were naturalized 

citizens. Among the country-ofbirth groups shown, Jamaica (61 

percent) and Cuba (56 percent) had 

the highest percent naturalized. By 

comparison, Mexico (23 percent) 

and Honduras (21 percent) were 

among the countries with the 

lowest percent naturalized. 

SOURCE AND ACCURACY

Data presented in this report are 

based on people and households 

that responded to the ACS in 

2010. The resulting estimates 

are representative of the entire 

population. All comparisons 

presented in this report have taken 

sampling error into account and 

are significant at the 90 percent 

confidence level unless otherwise 

noted. Due to rounding, some 

details may not sum to totals. 

For information on sampling and 

estimation methods, confidentiality 

protection, and sampling and 

Table 2. 

Foreign-Born Population From Latin America and the 

Caribbean by Country of Birth: 2010

(Numbers in thousands. Data based on sample. For information on confidentiality 

protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see www.census.gov

/acs/www)

Region and country of birth

Number Percent of total Percent of region

Estimate

Margin 

of 

error 

(±)1 Estimate

Margin 

of 

error 

(±)1 Estimate

Margin 

of 

error 

(±)1

 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,224 90 100.0 (X) (X) (X)

Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,731 42 17.6 0.2 100.0 (X)

Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,105 27 5.2 0.1 29.6 0.6

Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . 879 24 4.1 0.1 23.6 0.6

Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587 21 2.8 0.1 15.7 0.6

Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660 20 3.1 0.1 17.7 0.5

Other Caribbean 2 . . . . . . . . . . 500 17 2.4 0.1 13.4 0.4

Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,764 90 69.6 0.2 100.0 (X)

Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,711 83 55.2 0.3 79.3 0.3

El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,214 34 5.7 0.2 8.2 0.2

Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831 29 3.9 0.1 5.6 0.2

Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 24 2.5 0.1 3.5 0.2

Other Central America 3 . . . . . . 485 17 2.3 0.1 3.3 0.1

South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,730 42 12.9 0.2 100.0 (X)

Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 15 1.6 0.1 12.4 0.5

Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637 19 3.0 0.1 23.3 0.6

Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 20 2.1 0.1 16.2 0.6

Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 18 2.0 0.1 15.7 0.6

Other South America 4 . . . . . . . 882 23 4.2 0.1 32.3 0.7

(X) Not applicable.

1

 Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. A margin of error is a measure 

of an estimate’s variability. The larger the margin of error is in relation to the size of the estimate, the less 

reliable the estimate. This number when added to and subtracted from the estimate forms the 90 percent 

confidence interval.

2

 Other Caribbean includes Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin 

Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, the former country of Guadeloupe (including 

St. Barthélemy and Saint-Martin), Martinique, Montserrat, the former country of the Netherlands Antilles 

(including Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten), St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, 

St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

3

 Other Central America includes Belize, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama.

4

 Other South America includes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, 

Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey.
4 U.S. Census Bureau

nonsampling errors, please see the 

“2010 ACS Accuracy of the Data” 

document located at 

<www.census.gov/acs/www

/Downloads/data_documentation

/Accuracy/ACS_Accuracy

_of_Data_2010.pdf>.

WHAT IS THE AMERICAN 

COMMUNITY SURVEY?

The American Community 

Survey (ACS) is a nationwide 

survey designed to provide 

communities with reliable and 

timely demographic, social, 

economic, and housing data for 

the nation, states, congressional 

districts, counties, places, and 

other localities every year. It has 

an annual sample size of about 3 

million addresses across the United 

States and Puerto Rico and includes 

both housing units and group 

quarters (e.g., nursing facilities 

and prisons). The ACS is conducted 

in every county throughout the 

nation, and every municipio in 

Puerto Rico, where it is called the 

Puerto Rico Community Survey. 

Beginning in 2006, ACS data for 

2005 were released for geographic 

areas with populations 65,000 and 

greater. For information on the ACS 

sample design and other topics, 

visit <www.census.gov/acs/www>. 

Figure 2.

Foreign Born From Latin American and the Caribbean by State: 2010

Foreign-born population born 

in Latin America and the 

Caribbean as a percent of 

the state's total foreign-born 

population

65.0 or more

50.0 to 64.9

25.0 to 49.9

Less than 25.0

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey.

MT

AK

NM

OR MN

KS

SD

ND

MO

WA

FL

IL IN

WI NY

PA

MI

OH

IA

ME

MA 

CT 

AZ

NV

TX

CA CO

WY

UT

ID

NE

OK

GA

AR

AL

NC

MS

LA

TN

KY

VA

SC

WV

RI 

DE 

MD 

NJ 

HI

VT NH

PR

DC 

United States = 53.1 percent

(Data based on sample. For information on confidentiality protection,sampling error, 

nonsampling error, and definitions, see www.census.gov/acs/www) 
U.S. Census Bureau 5

Table 3. 

Percent Distribution of the Foreign Born From Latin America and the Caribbean by Region 

of Birth and State: 2010

(Numbers in thousands. Data based on sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, 

and definitions, see www.census.gov/acs/www)

Area

Latin America Caribbean

Central America

South America

Total Mexico Other Central 

America1

Number

Margin 

of error 

(±)2

Percent 

of total

Margin 

of error 

(±)2

Percent 

of total

Margin 

of error 

(±)2

Percent 

of total

Margin 

of error 

(±)2

Percent 

of total

Margin 

of error 

(±)2

Percent 

of total

Margin 

of error 

(±)2

 United States . . . 21,224 90 17.6 0.2 69.6 0.2 55.2 0.3 14.4 0.2 12.9 0.2

Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 5 5.4 1.6 86.8 2.6 70.0 3.8 16.7 3.5 7.8 2.1

Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2 16.4 9.3 68.0 9.0 56.2 11.5 11.8 8.2 15.6 6.2

Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572 13 2.2 0.5 94.9 0.7 90.4 1.0 4.5 0.9 2.9 0.5

Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 5 1.7 0.9 94.4 1.6 73.4 3.6 21.0 3.6 3.9 1.5

California . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,477 43 1.3 0.1 94.4 0.2 78.8 0.5 15.6 0.4 4.4 0.2

Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 11 2.4 0.6 93.1 1.0 84.5 1.7 8.6 1.4 4.5 0.9

Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . 205 11 36.3 2.6 26.2 3.0 10.2 1.9 16.0 2.7 37.5 3.2

Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 3 16.5 4.1 65.9 6.3 49.7 7.9 16.2 5.6 17.6 5.4

District of Columbia . . . . 36 3 20.8 4.8 59.8 6.7 10.8 5.1 49.0 7.5 19.4 5.1

Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,752 30 55.1 0.9 21.5 0.8 9.6 0.5 11.9 0.6 23.4 0.7

Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515 12 16.4 1.3 72.5 1.5 56.3 2.0 16.2 1.6 11.1 1.0

Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3 14.7 7.9 55.6 9.0 41.0 9.1 14.6 5.8 29.7 7.9

Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 4 1.2 0.9 93.4 2.0 88.2 3.1 5.2 3.1 5.4 1.8

Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842 16 3.0 0.4 90.2 0.9 84.1 1.1 6.1 0.8 6.8 0.8

Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 6 4.9 1.1 89.2 1.8 76.9 2.6 12.3 2.1 5.9 1.4

Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 4 2.1 1.2 91.0 2.6 75.0 4.4 16.0 3.8 6.9 2.5

Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 6 1.0 0.5 94.0 1.5 83.8 2.5 10.2 2.5 5.0 1.4

Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 4 16.3 3.3 76.0 3.9 60.7 4.8 15.3 3.7 7.8 2.1

Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 5 11.3 2.4 79.2 2.8 32.6 3.5 46.6 3.6 9.5 2.4

Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1 34.5 12.6 25.2 14.0 11.8 10.9 13.4 8.8 40.4 14.2

Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 9 16.9 1.6 63.0 1.9 11.3 1.5 51.7 2.5 20.1 1.7

Massachusetts . . . . . . . . 356 13 42.6 2.1 24.0 1.9 4.4 0.9 19.6 1.9 33.4 2.1

Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 7 11.9 2.2 78.3 2.9 67.7 3.5 10.6 2.1 9.8 1.7

Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . 104 5 4.7 1.4 77.5 3.1 63.4 3.7 14.1 2.7 17.8 2.8

Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . 32 3 8.9 4.4 78.5 5.5 64.3 6.5 14.3 5.1 12.5 4.9

Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 6 11.9 3.0 77.2 3.6 62.5 4.2 14.7 3.2 10.9 2.5

Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 6.7 6.7 45.0 16.2 41.5 17.3 3.6 4.5 48.3 16.1

Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 4 1.9 1.1 94.2 1.8 75.0 4.8 19.3 4.7 3.9 1.6

Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 8 6.7 1.0 88.4 1.4 75.1 1.8 13.3 1.7 5.0 0.9

New Hampshire . . . . . . . 14 3 31.4 9.9 35.2 11.0 20.8 11.0 14.4 6.0 33.5 10.8

New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . 852 15 32.4 1.5 30.9 1.3 15.2 1.1 15.6 1.1 36.8 1.5

New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . 163 9 2.2 0.7 95.1 1.4 91.4 1.6 3.7 1.3 2.7 1.0

New York . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,155 28 49.3 0.9 23.9 0.9 11.7 0.8 12.1 0.7 26.8 0.8

North Carolina . . . . . . . . 414 11 7.1 1.2 83.2 1.5 63.5 2.3 19.7 1.8 9.7 1.1

North Dakota . . . . . . . . . 1 1 25.4 17.6 63.7 18.4 50.7 18.5 13.0 13.9 10.9 8.9

Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 6 13.7 3.6 70.3 4.3 53.8 4.8 16.5 3.0 16.0 3.1

Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . 121 6 1.6 0.9 93.4 1.7 83.3 2.8 10.1 2.4 5.0 1.5

Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 8 2.2 0.8 94.0 1.1 86.2 2.0 7.9 2.0 3.7 0.8

Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . 221 11 39.6 2.8 38.2 2.7 26.7 2.3 11.5 1.7 22.2 2.3

Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . 60 4 45.4 5.3 36.1 4.9 6.9 2.5 29.2 4.8 18.5 4.7

South Carolina . . . . . . . . 120 6 7.6 1.8 81.6 2.8 57.8 4.0 23.8 3.8 10.7 2.1

South Dakota . . . . . . . . . 6 1 1.5 1.9 87.0 6.2 64.1 15.4 22.9 14.8 11.5 6.0

Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . 143 7 5.3 1.4 87.4 2.4 63.3 4.7 24.1 3.8 7.3 1.7

Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,013 35 2.0 0.2 94.0 0.3 82.5 0.5 11.5 0.5 4.0 0.3

Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 6 1.6 0.9 82.5 2.4 73.8 2.7 8.8 1.7 15.9 2.3

Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1 18.0 11.9 40.1 20.5 33.7 22.0 6.5 5.7 41.9 15.7

Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 9 8.5 1.1 63.7 2.1 19.1 2.3 44.6 2.6 27.8 2.1

Washington . . . . . . . . . . 277 8 2.0 0.5 91.5 1.1 84.2 1.6 7.4 1.1 6.4 1.0

West Virginia . . . . . . . . . 5 1 21.5 9.7 57.7 11.7 22.9 8.9 34.8 13.0 20.8 10.0

Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . 110 6 3.7 1.0 88.1 2.3 80.3 2.5 7.7 1.8 8.2 2.0

Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2 – – 84.4 9.5 75.1 10.3 9.3 6.7 15.6 9.5

– Represents or rounds to zero.

1

 Other Central America includes Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

2

 Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. A margin of error is a measure of an estimate’s variability. The larger the margin of 

error is in relation to the size of the estimate, the less reliable the estimate. This number when added to and subtracted from the estimate forms the 90 percent 

confidence interval.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey.
6 U.S. Census Bureau

Table 4.

Percent of the Foreign Born From Latin America and the 

Caribbean Who Are Naturalized U.S. Citizens by Place of 

Birth: 2010

(Data based on sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling 

error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see www.census.gov/acs/www)

Region and country of birth

Percent 

Estimate

Margin of 

error (±)1

 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.1 0.3

Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.1 0.6

Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.7 1.2

Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . 47.7 1.4

Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.0 1.6

Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 1.5

Other Caribbean 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.7 1.6

Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.3 0.3

Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.9 0.3

El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.9 1.0

Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.1 1.3

Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.1 1.4

Other Central America 3 . . . . . . . . 52.1 1.5

South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.4 0.6

Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.2 1.7

Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.2 1.3

Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.7 1.8

Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.2 1.7

Other South America 4 . . . . . . . . . 50.3 1.1

1

 Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. A margin of error is a measure 

of an estimate’s variability. The larger the margin of error is in relation to the size of the estimate, the less 

reliable the estimate. This number when added to and subtracted from the estimate forms the 90 percent 

confidence interval.

2

 Other Caribbean includes Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British 

Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, the former country of Guadeloupe (including 

St. Barthélemy and Saint-Martin), Martinique, Montserrat, the former country of the Netherlands Antilles 

(including Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten), St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, 

St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

3

 Other Central America includes Belize, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama.

4

 Other South America includes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, 

Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey.