Table 1.

Descriptive socioeconomic and demographic characteristics for major racial/ethnic groups in the United States: the 2008–2010 American Community Survey (N = 9,093,077).

Racial/ethnic group	Number in sample	Population proportion (%)	Child poverty1 rate (%)	Adult poverty2 rate (%)	Per capita income2 ($)	College graduates3 (%)	Unemployment rate2 (%)	Immigrant population (%)	Divorced or separated2 (%)
United States	9,093,077	100.00	19.96	12.48	36,498	28.03	8.63	12.82	13.54
Non-Hispanic White	6,335,580	64.14	11.97	9.42	39,964	31.11	7.20	3.84	13.53
Mexican	780,939	10.45	32.10	20.65	22,171	9.25	10.25	36.19	10.99
Puerto Rican	108,418	1.49	32.11	21.60	26,896	16.26	12.99	1.10	16.51
Cuban	46,579	0.57	16.05	15.80	30,992	24.54	10.67	58.87	16.45
Central/South American	196,267	2.79	24.21	16.80	25,543	18.71	9.95	64.02	13.22
Other Hispanics	65,309	0.77	22.95	15.34	30,267	21.29	9.80	13.42	15.51
Non-Hispanic Black	903,942	12.23	36.00	21.40	25,155	17.82	14.54	7.85	17.53
American Indian/AN	68,673	0.66	32.45	23.78	23,721	13.85	14.29	1.10	17.63
Asian Indian	72,611	0.90	7.11	8.74	53,639	71.25	6.72	72.19	3.32
Chinese	95,691	1.09	10.40	13.62	42,567	52.60	6.50	69.24	5.87
Filipino	71,631	0.82	5.09	5.67	36,745	48.64	6.58	66.67	8.20
Japanese	23,414	0.25	6.44	8.27	44,550	47.55	4.02	41.15	9.70
Korean	38,039	0.47	13.50	15.35	35,604	52.02	7.03	73.91	6.65
Vietnamese	42,879	0.51	16.54	14.10	29,415	26.14	8.20	68.79	7.84
Cambodian	5,782	0.08	24.64	17.04	22,500	13.65	11.39	59.51	9.39
Bangladeshi	2,523	0.03	28.68	21.15	26,887	49.83	7.95	73.50	2.50
Pakistani	8,256	0.11	19.92	14.11	38,113	54.43	8.18	67.54	3.59
Hmong	4,947	0.08	35.65	24.23	18,411	12.90	12.21	43.72	5.63
Laotian	4,545	0.06	16.50	13.34	24,735	13.10	11.48	59.28	10.34
Thai	4,384	0.05	24.07	15.94	28,581	43.73	6.73	77.28	10.58
Other Asians	22,412	0.26	14.81	14.74	35,064	45.45	8.04	58.00	6.16
Native Hawaiian	4,277	0.05	15.26	12.31	31,095	16.86	10.44	1.82	14.99
Samoan	2,101	0.03	21.42	15.75	22,731	11.32	14.28	13.82	8.19
Guamanian	1,612	0.02	14.46	10.72	33,138	18.09	9.23	1.52	12.40
Other Pacific Islanders	1,736	0.02	17.53	15.23	25,191	16.03	13.59	38.29	8.33
All other groups4	180,530	2.09	19.96	15.56	30,345	28.01	11.88	9.96	14.82

¹Children under 18 years of age. ²Population aged 18 years and older. ³Population aged 25 years and older. ⁴This category includes multiple race groups. AN: Alaska Native.