New York’s Hispanic population is the fourth-largest in the nation. More than 3 million Hispanics reside in New York, 7% of all Hispanics in the United States. There are 1.5 million eligible Hispanic voters in New York, 8% of all U.S. Hispanic eligible voters.¹ This fact sheet provides key demographic information on Latino eligible voters.² It also contains data on other major groups of eligible voters in New York, with comparative data for the U.S. All data are from the Census Bureau’s 2006 American Community Survey.³

Hispanics in New York’s Eligible Voter Population

• New York’s population is 16% Hispanic, the eighth-highest Hispanic population share nationally. New Mexico ranks first with 45%.
• 12% of eligible voters in New York are Latinos, the eighth-largest Hispanic eligible voter population share nationally. New Mexico ranks first with 38%.
• 48% of Latinos in New York are eligible to vote, ranking New York 16th nationwide in the share of the Hispanic population that is eligible to vote.

  

Characteristics of Eligible Voters

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  27% of Hispanic eligible voters in New York are ages 18 to 29, a somewhat greater share than the 21% of all New York eligible voters who are in that age range.

• A greater share of Hispanic eligible voters in New York (31%) are naturalized U.S. citizens compared with all New York eligible voters (16%). The share of New York Hispanic eligible voters (70%) who are citizens by birth is less than the share of all U.S. Hispanic eligible voters (74%) who are citizens by birth.
• 29% of Latino eligible voters in New York have not completed high school, similar to the share of all Latino eligible voters nationwide (27%). By contrast, 14% of all New York eligible voters and 14% of all eligible voters nationwide have not completed high school.
• Only 33% of New York Hispanic eligible voters live in owner-occupied homes compared with 62% of all New York eligible voters. Hispanic eligible voters in New York are less than half as likely to live in an owner-occupied home as are all eligible voters in the U.S.—33% versus 71%.

Characteristics of Eligible Voters in New York, by Race and Ethnicity

• Black eligible voters in New York slightly outnumber Hispanic eligible voters—1.8 million blacks compared with 1.5 million Hispanics.
• Latino eligible voters outnumber Asian eligible voters in New York by more than 2 to 1.
• More Latino eligible voters (29%) in New York did not complete high school compared with white (10%), black (21%) and Asian (15%) eligible voters.
• Asian eligible voters in New York are 2.5 times more likely to be naturalized citizens compared with Latino eligible voters—78% versus 31%.
• 61% of Asian eligible voters in New York live in owner-occupied homes compared with 33% of Hispanic and 40% of black eligible voters in New York.