American Minority Population Reaches 100 Million

America’s minority population has reached 100.7 million, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau. A year ago, the minority population totalled 98.3 million.

“About one in three U.S. residents is a minority,” said Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon. “To put this into perspective, there are more minorities in this country today than there were people in the United States in 1910. In fact, the minority population in the U.S. is larger than the total population of all but 11 countries.”

The American population in 1910 was 92.2 million. The overall population of America today is over 300 million.

Four states and the District of Columbia are “majority-minority”. Hawaii leads the nation with a population that is 75 percent minority, followed by the District of Columbia (68 percent), New Mexico (57 percent), California (57 percent) and Texas (52 percent). No other state has a minority population exceeding 42 percent of the total.

Highlights for the various groups:

California has the largest Hispanic population of any state followed by Texas and Florida.

New York has the largest black population followed by Florida and Texas.

California has the largest Asian population and also has the largest population of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Maine and Vermont have the highest proportion of single-race non-Hispanic whites (96 percent each), followed by West Virginia (94 percent).