Estimated Net New Hispanic Rural/Mixed-Rural Residents by State*

Increasingly, rural America’s new neighbors are Hispanic/Latino. While only a small percentage of Americans living in rural and mixed-rural counties are Hispanic – 12% – they make up a large number of new families moving and being born in rural places. One-in-two of America’s new rural neighbors are Hispanic. Put differently, that is 1.5 million new Hispanic residents over a two year period.

Below is a table of the estimated net new rural/mixed-rural county residents summed by state broken out by ethnicity. Figures were calculated by comparing the 2011 and 2009 American Community Survey 5-Year Population Estimates. Margins of error were excluded so figures should be taken as rough approximations.

State	All Ethnicities	Hispanic/Latino	% Hispanic
Alabama	98,349	32,669	33%
Alaska	17,417	-579	< 0%
Arizona	69,655	46,080	66%
Arkansas	53,322	19,227	36%
California	378,886	383,331	> 100%
Colorado	92,830	50,376	54%
Connecticut	2,700	2,759	> 100%
Delaware	18,320	6,214	34%
D. of Columbia	NA**	NA**	NA**
Florida	169,089	78,890	47%
Georgia	143,808	42,576	30%
Hawaii	24,590	2,952	12%
Idaho	57,414	18,970	33%
Illinois	64,330	21,983	34%
Indiana	65,360	16,902	26%
Iowa	43,080	16,652	39%
Kansas	21,020	18,391	87%
Kentucky	25,320	11,894	47%
Louisiana	64,930	18,598	29%
Maine	12,163	663	5%
Maryland	35,115	12,594	36%
Massachusetts	2,992	2,026	68%
Michigan	362	9,000	> 100%
Minnesota	53,104	13,214	25%
Mississippi	30,241	11,815	39%
Missouri	79,033	12,146	15%
Montana	26,597	1,515	6%
Nebraska	17,603	11,619	66%
Nevada	127,517	56,472	44%
New Hampshire	4,343	1,632	38%
New Jersey	-2,672	7,453	NA***
New Mexico	43,792	30,928	71%
New York	51,951	18,596	36%
North Carolina	218,062	64,479	30%
North Dakota	27,058	639	2%
Ohio	61,873	11,446	18%
Oklahoma	64,958	19,244	30%
Oregon	42,107	32,040	76%
Pennsylvania	42,054	14,085	33%
Rhode Island	NA**	NA**	NA**
South Carolina	122,572	31,211	25%
South Dakota	11,184	1,469	13%
Tennessee	117,024	22,302	19%
Texas	365,331	230,265	63%
Utah	27,567	15,792	57%
Vermont	4,544	1,017	22%
Virginia	54,666	13,366	24%
Washington	107,072	57,737	54%
West Virginia	33,047	2,086	6%
Wisconsin	52,835	19,742	37%
Wyoming	30,748	6,608	21%
All States	3,275,263	1,521,086	46%

* Figures calculated by comparing the 2011 and 2009 American Community Survey 5-Year Population Estimates. Margins of error were excluded so figures should be taken as rough approximations.
** Rhode Island and the District of Columbia have no counties that are classified as “rural” or “mixed-rural” according to the measures of Andrew Isserman.
*** New Jersey had a declining rural/mixed-rural population. As a result, it is impossible to say that Hispanics accounted for any of the “increase” in the state’s rural/mixed-rural population. However, the rural/mixed-rural decline was smaller because of a large increase in the Hispanic population in these areas.