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The following is a list of Texas cities, towns, and census-designated places in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Hispanic or Latino, according to data from the 2010 Census. [citation needed]
Texas's counties bordering Mexico are mostly Hispanic, and consequently, Spanish is commonly spoken in the region. The Government of Texas , through Section 2054.116 of the Government Code, mandates that state agencies provide information on their websites in Spanish to assist residents who have limited English proficiency.
Population Five Years and Over Percentage Speaking Spanish at Home Population Speaking Spanish at Home (in thousands) New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 18,066,122 20.24 3656 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA 12,450,222 36.0128 4483 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI 8,898,149 17.3754 1546 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 7,060,749 23.0874 1630
The state with the largest Hispanic and Latino population overall is California with 15.6 million Hispanics and Latinos. Hispanics are the largest racial or ethnic group in both states and is expected to become the largest in Texas in the 2020s. [1] The following are lists of the Hispanic and Latino population per state in the United States.
In total, 34.20% (7,660,406) of Texas's population age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English. [66] The 2019 American Community Survey estimated 64.4% of the population spoke only English, and 35.6% spoke a language other than English. [67] Roughly 30% of the total population spoke Spanish.
Throughout the country, there are 343 cities with a population over 100,000. 48 of them had Hispanic majorities, and in 74 more cities, between 30% and 50% of the population identified as Hispanic. Out of the 48 majority-Hispanic cities, 27 were in California, 9 were in Texas, and 5 were in Puerto Rico.
The International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC, Spanish: Comisión Internacional de Límites y Aguas, CILA) is an international body created by the United States and Mexico in 1889 to apply the rules for determining the location of their international boundary when meandering rivers transferred tracts of land from one bank to the other, as established under the Convention of November 12 ...
During the Spanish colonial period of Texas, most colonial settlers of northern New Spain – including Texas, northern Mexico, and the American Southwest – were descendants of Spaniards. [ 25 ] Although the number of Tejanos whose families have lived in Texas since before 1836 is unknown, it was estimated that 5,000 Tejano descendants of San ...