As of right now, there are 15 million Hispanic residents in California, while there are 14.9 million white residents, according to a press release by the Census Bureau. Out of all the areas in California, Los Angeles County had the largest Hispanic population in 2014. The county has 4.9 million Hispanic residents.
Harris County in Texas is home to 1.9 million Hispanic residents, while Miami-Dade County in Florida has 1.8 million. Hispanics had already outnumbered whites in New Mexico, but the numbers in California are larger. As for the entire country, the Hispanic population reached 55 million in 2014, which is a record.
Also, the District of Columbia’s population is made up of 64.2 percent minorities.
The Latinos in California are young, as the average age is 29, while the average age for non-Hispanic whites is 45. California’s demographics indicate that by 2060, 49 percent of the state’s population will be made up of Latinos.
Roberto Suro, the director of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at the University of Southern California, said that these figures represent an official acknowledgement of a process that has been under way for almost a generation.
