How many Hispanic Americans are third generation and higher?

Considering that Puerto Ricans gained American citizenship in 1917, the whole island and its diaspora pretty much qualifies as third-generation, excepting the elderly who probably are second generation. People of Puerto Rican decent only number 1.5% of the U. read more

Even if we were to assume a low-estimate of 15% of Mexican-Americans are third generation or older (compared to 30% of Hispanics overall) that would still put the population of third generation Mexican-Americans equal to the population of all Puerto Ricans (the next largest Hispanic group) at ~ 5 million people. read more

Thus, the majority of Hispanic Americans (71%) are either the first generation or are immigrants themselves, compared to 20% of blacks and 14% of non-Hispanic whites. Black Americans are more likely than either whites or Hispanics to be the third generation Americans. read more

Hispanic Americans are the second fastest-growing ethnic group by percentage growth in the United States after Asian Americans. Hispanic/Latinos overall are the second-largest ethnic group in the United States, after non-Hispanic whites (a group which, like Hispanics and Latinos, is composed of dozens of sub-groups of differing national origin). read more