Hispanic population dispersion slows since onset of the Great Recession % of counties with at least 1,000 Hispanics in each year Onset of the Great Recession
Yet the new analysis shows that Hispanic population dispersion, while continuing, has also slowed since 2007. For example, the share of U.S. counties with at least 1,000 Hispanics rose more rapidly before the onset of the Great Recession than after: Between 2000 and 2007, there was an 8-percentage-point gain in the share of U.S. counties with at least 1,000 Hispanics, rising to 46% from 38% in 2000. Yet while half of U.S. counties met this criterion in 2014, the share that did so was up only 4 percentage points since 2007, when 46% of all counties did. Other measures of dispersion show a similar slowing trend (see Chapter 1 for more details).
Hispanic population  | dispersion slows since  | onset of the Great  | Recession  | % of counties with at least 1,000  | Hispanics in each year  | 2007. 2014  | 2000 2007  | 4-point change  | 8-point  | change  | 38%  | 46  | 50  | 2000  | 2007  | 2014  | Onset of the Great Recession  | Note: The Greati 2007 Recession beganin 2009.  | December 2007 and ended beganin in June 2009.  | Source Pew Research Centerta bulations of  | U.S "U.S Census Bureau population estimates.  | "U.S Dispersion Latino Has Population Bureau Slowed Since Growth Onset and  | Dispersion Has Slowed Since Onset ofthe  | GreatRecession"  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 