Puerto Ricans in Texas State, 2019

In 2019, Texas had the 7th largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United States with an estimated population of 239,157 with the majority of Puerto Ricans residing in Bell county per 10,000. Puerto Ricans accounted for 0.8 percent of the state’s overall population in 2019. Between 2010 and 2019, Texas’s Puerto Rican population increased by 73 percent from 138,136 to 239,157. This infographic contains selected socioeconomic characteristics of the Puerto Rican population in Texas, such as age distribution, educational attainment, employment status, health insurance coverage and more.