The Hispanic Population: Census 2000 Brief: C2KBR/01-3 May 2001

Analysis of 2000 Census: “35.3 million (or 12.5 per-cent) were Hispanic. Mexicans represented 7.3 percent, Puerto Ricans 1.2 percent, Cubans 0.4 percent, and other Hispanics 3.6 percent of the total population.”