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April 30, 2008 - 10:07PM
Hispanics make up nearly 30% of Ariz. population
Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services
Arizona is adding more Hispanics to its population each year than all other groups, according to new figures today from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The federal agency reports there were 1,878,097 Arizonans who identified themselves as Hispanic as of July 1, 2007. That is an increase of 89,140, or 5 percent.
That left 4,460,658 who said they are not of Hispanic origin. That 1.9 percent boost from the prior year translates into just 83,926 new residents.
The result is that nearly 30percent of Arizonans are Hispanic. That is nearly twice as much as the national average of 15.1 percent. And the national year-over-year Hispanic growth rate was just 3.1 percent.
But Arizona's Hispanic population still trails the other three border states: 44 percent of New Mexico's population is Hispanic, followed by California and Texas, at 35 percent each.
Since the 2000 census, the number of Hispanics have increased by almost 565,000. The number of Hispanics in the state is 45 percent more than at the beginning of the decade.
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