Let's crunch some numbers! What follows are some recent datapoints from the U.S. Census Bureau about Hispanic demographics. From business ownership to median age, there is a ton of data to digest!

• The estimated Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2009 was 48.4 million, making people of Hispanic origin the nation's largest ethnic or race minority. Hispanics constitute 16% of total U.S. population. In addition, there are approximately 4 million residents of Puerto Rico, a Caribbean U.S. territory.


• More than one of every two people added to the United State's population between July 1, 2008 and July 1, 2009 was Hispanic, making Hispanics the fastest-growing minority group.


• The projected Hispanic population of the U.S. in 2050 is 132 million. According to this projection, Hispanics will constitute 30% of the U.S. population by that date.


• In 2008, 66% of Hispanic-origin people in the United States were of Mexican background. Another 9% were of Puerto Rican background, with 3.4% Cuban, 3.4% Salvadoran and 2.8% Dominican.


• About 44% of the nation's Dominicans live in New York City and about half of the nation's Cubans in Miami-Dade County, FL.


• Twenty-six percent of children younger than five are Hispanic. All in all, Hispanics comprise 22% of children younger than 18.


• Median age of the Hispanic population is 27.4 years. This compared with 36.8 years for the population as a whole.


• Forty-six percent of New Mexico's population is Hispanic, the highest of any state. Hispanics also make up at least one-fifth of the population in California and Texas.


• There are 2.3 million Hispanic-owned businesses (2007), up 43.6% from 2002.


• In 2008, 35 million U.S. residents (ages five and older) spoke Spanish at home. Those who hablan español constituted 12% of U.S. residents. More than half of these Spanish speakers spoke English "very well."

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