Puerto Ricans in the United States, 2019

In 2019, the United States had an estimated population of 5,828,706 million Puerto Ricans with the majority of Puerto Ricans residing in Florida and New York state. Puerto Ricans accounted for about 1.8 percent of the United States overall population in 2019. Between 2010 and 2019, the United States Puerto Rican population increased by 24 percent from 4,691,890 to 5,828,706. This infographic contains selected socioeconomic characteristics of the Puerto Rican population in the United States, such as age distribution, educational attainment, employment status, health insurance coverage and more.