Report from the Pew Hispanic Center - The study reveals that some 20 million Hispanics—57 percent of the total—live in neighborhoods in which Hispanics make up less than half of the population,

according to an analysis of data from the 2000 Census. In the places were these Latinos live, only an average of seven percent of the residents are Hispanic. This pattern holds for Latino immigrants and low-income Hispanics, although to a somewhat lesser degree.

The remaining share of the Hispanic population—43 percent lives in neighborhoods where Latinos are a majority. These communities are large, and they are growing faster than neighborhoods in which Latinos are a minority. Between 1990 and 2000, the Hispanic population grew most in big cities which already had large Hispanic populations, such as New York and Los Angeles, and these majority-Latino neighborhoods have spread throughout the country’s major urban areas. Although these neighborhoods can be highly visible and sometimes controversial, they are not the norm for the Latino population.