This statistical profile compares the demographic, income and economic characteristics of the Honduran population with the characteristics of all Hispanics and the U.S. population overall. It is based on Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of the 2007 American Community Survey. Key facts include:

• Immigration status. Seven-in-ten Hondurans (71.3%) in the United States are foreign born compared with 39.8% of Hispanics and 12.6% of the U.S. population overall. Three-in-four immigrants from Honduras (76.6%) arrived in the U.S. in 1990 or later. Two-in-ten Honduran immigrants (20.8%) are U.S. citizens.
• Language. Less than four-in-ten Hondurans (37.2%) speak English proficiently.2 Some 62.8% of Hondurans ages 5 and older report speaking English less than very well, compared with 38.8% of all Hispanics.
• Age. Hondurans are younger than the U.S. population and similar in age to Hispanics overall. The median age of Hondurans is 28; the median ages of the U.S. population and all Hispanics are 36 and 27, respectively.
• Marital status. Hondurans are less likely than Hispanics overall to be married—41.4% versus 47.3%.
• Fertility. One-half (51.4%) of Honduran women ages 15 to 44 who gave birth in the 12 months prior to the survey were unmarried. That was greater than the rate for all Hispanic women—38.1%—and the rate for U.S. women—33.4%.
• Regional dispersion. A majority of Hondurans (54.3%) live in the South, mostly in Florida and Texas. Some one-in-eight Hondurans (13.1%) live in California; one-in-nine (11.2%) live in New York.
• Educational attainment. Hondurans have lower levels of education than the Hispanic population overall. Some 48.4% of Hondurans ages 25 and older—compared with 39.4% of all U.S. Hispanics—have not obtained at least a high school diploma.
• Income. The median annual personal earnings for Hondurans ages 16 and older were $18,214 in 2007; the median earnings for all U.S. Hispanics were $21,048.
• Poverty status. The share of Hondurans who live in poverty, 21.4%, is higher than the rate for the general U.S. population (11.9%) and Hispanics overall (19.5%).
• Homeownership. The rate of Honduran homeownership (30.6%) is lower than the rate for all Hispanics (49.9%) and the U.S. population (67.2%) as a whole

About the Data - This statistical profile of Hispanics of Honduran origin is based on the Census Bureau's 2007 American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS is the largest household survey in the United States, with a sample of about 3 million addresses. The data used for this statistical profile come from 2007 ACS Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), representing a 1% sample of the U.S. population.