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Dominican-Americans
Dominicans in the US (2010 census)
1,656,960 (2012)
0.53% of the U.S. population (2012)
An estimated 1.5 million Hispanics of Dominican origin resided in the United States in 2010, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Dominicans in this statistical profile are people who self-identified as Hispanics of Dominican origin; this means either they themselves are Dominican immigrants or they trace their family ancestry to the Dominican Republic. Dominicans are the fifth-largest population of Hispanic origin living in the United States, accounting for 3.0% of the U.S. Hispanic population in 2010. Mexicans, the nation’s largest Hispanic origin group, constituted 32.9 million, or 64.9%, of the Hispanic population in 2010
Geographic distribution[edit]
As of 2010 Census, the top 10 U.S. states with the largest Dominican populations are:
New York – 674,787
- New Jersey – 197,922
- Florida – 172,451
- Massachusetts – 103,292
- Pennsylvania – 70,348
- Rhode Island – 35,008
- Connecticut – 26,093
- North Carolina – 15,225
- Georgia – 14,941
- Maryland – 14,873
A significant number of Dominican Americans are young, first generation immigrants without a higher education, since many hailed from the country's rural areas. Second generation Dominican Americans are more educated than their first generation counterparts, a condition reflected in their higher incomes and employment in professional or skilled occupations. Over 62.5% of Dominicans in the US are US citizens (born/ naturalized).
Castro, Max J. (2002). The Dominican Diaspora Revisited, Dominicans and Dominican-Americans in a New Century.
Over 21% of all second-generation Dominican Americans have college degrees, slightly below the average for all Americans (24%) but significantly higher than U.S.-born Mexican Americans (14%) and U.S.-born Puerto Rican Americans (9%). In New York City, Dominican entrepreneurs have carved out roles in several industries, especially the bodega and supermarket and taxi and private transporation industries. In March of 2013 President Barack Obama nominated Thomas E. Perez, an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department of Dominican origin Thomas Perez).
Christian Krohn-Hansen, Making New York Dominican: Small Business, Politics, and Everyday Life (University of Pennsylvania Press; 2013)
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