How many Latinos live in the Bronx?
The Bronx County has the third largest concentration of Latinos east of the Mississippi River. With 644,705 Latinos the Bronx is only surpassed by Miami-Dade County with 1,291,737 and Cook County (Chicago) with 1,071,740. It is worth pointing out that Miami-Dade includes the cities of Miami, Miami Beach, Hialeah, and 28 other towns, and that Cook County includes all of the city of Chicago.

Latinos in the Bronx account for a large percentage of the total population in the borough. They represent lesser percentages of the total in the rest of the city's boroughs, in New York State and the United States as a whole.

The 2000 census counted 644,705 Latinos living in the Bronx. At 48% of the total population, they are the single largest group in the Bronx. In the other boroughs of New York City (Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island) Latinos account for a lesser percentage of those boroughs' total population. The percentage of Latinos living in the Bronx contrasts significantly with those of New York City, Nassau and Westchester counties, New York State, and the United States.
  

The majority of Hispanics who live in the Bronx trace their ancestry to, or were born in, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. Their proportion, however, is changing. Up to the 1990 census, Puerto Ricans accounted to for over 80% of the Latinos residing in the borough.


 		  

 

 Today, their percentage of the Bronx's Hispanic population is close to 50%. While the absolute number of Puerto Ricans in the Bronx has not decreased significantly, their proportion relative to the other Hispanic groups (such as Dominicans, Mexicans, Central and South Americans) that make the Bronx their home has decreased. This demographic change has made the Bronx into a truly diverse Hispanic enclave.

 

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