This profile provides key demographic information on Latino eligible voters¹ and other major groups of eligible voters in Massachusetts.² All demographic data are based on Pew Research Center tabulations of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey.³

Hispanics in Massachusetts’s Eligible Voter Population

• The Hispanic population in Massachusetts is the 16th largest in the nation. About 729,000 Hispanics reside in Massachusetts, 1.3% of all Hispanics in the United States.
• Massachusetts’s population is 11% Hispanic, the 18th largest Hispanic statewide population share nationally.
• There are 372,000 Hispanic eligible voters in Massachusetts—the 11th largest Hispanic statewide eligible voter population nationally. California ranks first with 6.9 million.
• Some 8% of Massachusetts eligible voters are Hispanic, the 15th largest Hispanic statewide eligible voter share nationally. New Mexico ranks first with 40%.
• About half of Hispanics in Massachusetts are eligible to vote (51%), ranking Massachusetts 15th nationwide in the share of the Hispanic population that is eligible to vote. By contrast, 79% of the state’s white population is eligible to vote.