 By 2000, many Gulfton residents had recently immigrated from Mexico or other Latin American countries. In 2000, Houston's Gulfton Super Neighborhood # 27, which includes Gulfton and various surrounding subdivisions, reported a population of 46,369 people, of whom 34,410 (74 %) were Hispanic, 5,029 were white, 4,047 were black, 2,081 were Asian, 61 were Native American, 13 were Native Hawaiian, and 97 were of other races and were not Hispanic. 631 were of two or more races. As of 2010, Gulfton has citizens of 82 countries, and 16 languages are spoken in the community. Gulfton had a density of 16,000 people per square mile, while as a whole the area within the 610 Loop has a density of 3,800 people per square mile.
