Demographics - Race/Ethnicity
Houston is more racially and ethnically diverse than the nation
Published on 10/12/22
No racial/ethnic group constitutes a majority of the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land Metropolitan Statistical Area (Houston MSA).
- The Houston MSA is home to the nation’s fourth-largest Hispanic population. Its Hispanic population of almost 2.8 million in ’21 falls between Miami, with a little over 2.8 million, and Riverside, CA, with 2.5 million.
- The Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land MSA contains the nation’s ninth-largest Asian population (575,977) of those reported in ‘21.
