2010 Census

The results of the 2010 census have been released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The percentage of the total national population that checked two or more races was 2.9 percent, up 32.0 percent from the 2000 census! Our website has the breakdown of population by individual states.

More than 9 million Americans checked two or more races, according to the bureau. We refer to these numbers as “multiracial” instead of what the Census Bureau calls “people who check two or more races.”

 Every state except New York had increases in the multiracial population, with some states such as Georgia increasing by 81.7%, Maryland by 59.0% and Alaska by 51.9%.

Other results show the population of the United States is becoming more Hispanic, with 50 million people designating themselves as such on the census. Asians increased by 43 percent over the last census. The black population fell in some key major cities. It is not clear yet why so many people — 6.2 percent of the population designated themselves as “Some Other Race.”

We will continue to bring you the latest demographic information on the multiracial population as we receive it.