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Hispanics of any race made 26.5% of the population. [12] In 1970, non-Hispanic whites made up 88% of the state's population. [13] The principal ancestry of Nevada's residents in 2009 has been surveyed to be the following: [14] 20.8% Mexican; Nevada also has a sizable Basque ancestry population.
By 2015, Filipino Americans are more than half of the population of Asian Americans in Las Vegas. [262] In 2024 there were about 178,655 Filipino Americans in the state, there is a trend of Filipino Americans relocating from Hawaii and California to Nevada due to rising cost of living and housing prices. [263] [264]
As of the 2020 U.S. Census, Asian Americans were 9.1% of the state's population, [2] or 378,672 people. Filipinos are the largest Asian ethnic group in the state. [ 3 ] In Clark County, the four largest Asian groups are Filipino (52%), Chinese (12%), and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and Indian (both 7%). [ 4 ]
In 1829, Mexican trader and explorer Antonio Armijo led a group consisting of 60 men and 100 mules along the Old Spanish Trail from modern day New Mexico to California. . Along the way, the group stopped in the what would become Las Vegas and noted the natural water sources, now referred to as the Las Vegas Springs, which supported extensive vegetation such as grasses and mesquite
The United States is the third most populous country in the world, and the most populous in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere, with an estimated population of 340,110,988 on July 1, 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. [1] This was an increase of 2.6% over the 2020 federal census of 331,449,281 residents. [19]
Metropolitan Area Population 2020 United States Census [2] African-American Population Size, 100,000 or more (2020 United States Census) [3] African-American Population Size (2010 Census) [4] % Change (2010–2020) Percentage African-American (2020) 1 New York, New York (NY-NJ-PA) MSA 20,140,470 3,237,789 3,352,616 −3.42%: 16.1 2 Atlanta ...
Trump won 47.8% of the vote in Clark County, home to Las Vegas, the highest percentage since 1988. Nevada was the only state that did not vote for Trump in either of his 2016 or 2020 campaigns that voted for him in 2024.
As of 2010 the U.S. Census Bureau did not ask singles about sexual orientation in the United States Census. [9] In the 2020 United States census , same-sex married couples accounted for 0.5% of all U.S. households and unmarried same-sex couples accounted for 0.4% of all U.S. households.