Fast Facts: Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month begins today in the United States. This “fast fact” guide from the U.S. Cenus is loaded with info about the Hispanic population.

Facts and Stats include:
+ 42.7 million
The estimated Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2005, making people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic or race minority. Hispanics constituted 14 percent of the nation’s total population. (This estimate does not include the 3.9 million residents of Puerto Rico.)

+ 22.4 million
The nation’s Hispanic population during the 1990 census — just slightly over half the current total.

+ 27.2
Median age, in years, of the Hispanic population in 2005. This compares with 36.2 years for the population as a whole.

+ Triple
The rate of growth of Hispanic-owned businesses between 1997 and 2002 (31 percent) compared to the national average (10 percent) for all businesses.

1.1 million
The number of Hispanic veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Much more on the web page.
Source: U.S. Census

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