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In Illinois, 56% of the Puerto Rican population is located in the city of Chicago, with the remaining portion of the state's Puerto Rican population concentrated in Chicago's suburbs, including Berwyn, Waukegan, Aurora, Cicero, Elgin, Romeoville. The Humboldt Park neighborhood is home to the largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the Midwest.
As of 2010, Hispanic and Latinos were the fastest growing population demographic in the United States. As of 2020, Hispanics and Latinos make up 18.7% of the total U.S. population (approximately 62 million out of a total of around 330 million). The state with the largest percentage of Hispanics and Latinos is New Mexico at 47.7%.
Although Puerto Ricans constitute 9 percent of the Hispanic/Latino population in the United States, there are some states where Puerto Ricans make up a much larger portion of the Hispanic/Latino population, including Connecticut, where 46.3 percent of the state's Latinos are of Puerto Rican descent and Pennsylvania, where Puerto Ricans make up ...
Puerto Rico’s complex politics Hurricanes Irma and Maria battered Puerto Rico in 2017, with Maria killing an estimated 3,000 people and becoming one of the costliest disasters in U.S. history.
The states and territories included in the United States Census Bureau's statistics for the United States population, ethnicity, and most other categories include the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Separate statistics are maintained for the five permanently inhabited territories of the United States: Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands ...
Soto noted there are 1.2 million Puerto Ricans in Florida, 500,000 in swing state Pennsylvania and a decisive 50,000 in Georgia and North Carolina. "We have eight days left for our community to ...
This trend accelerated among the Puerto Rican community in the mainland United States in the 1960s. [54] In the 2010 U.S. census, 9,399 people are identified as "Taíno." [ 55 ]
Although those living on the island cannot vote for president, Puerto Ricans living in the U.S. can.