Report: More than 1 in 10 US Latinos live in Los Angeles

The U.S. metro region with the most Latino residents isn’t in Florida or Texas. Provided you’re reading this in Los Angeles, it’s your hometown.

According to a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center, the Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area has the largest Latino population in the nation, with its 5.7 million Latino residents accounting for more than one in ten (11 percent) of all Latinos living in the United States.

Two other California metro regions are in the top-ten list of those boasting the highest Latino populations, including Riverside-San Bernardino, which ranks fourth nationwide, and San Francisco-Oakland-Vallejo, which ranks tenth.

However, none of these can claim to be the most Latino metro region, that being the one with the highest Latino population share. That distinction goes to Miami, which is 66 percent Latino. Los Angeles is only 45 percent Latino, ranking behind San Antonio and Riverside. And beyond the top-ten list, there are some metro regions that far exceed these percentages: Laredo, Texas, for example, is 96 percent Latino. The McAllen-Edinburg-Pharr-Mission metro area, also in Texas, follows at 91 percent.

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