Race and ethnicity across the nation

By John Keefe, Daniel Wolfe and Sergio Hernandez, CNN
Published Aug. 12, 2021

The United States is more diverse and has more people than ever before, with much of the growth occurring in and around metropolitan areas, according to the 2020 census. By plotting the population onto a map of the country according to density and group, it’s possible to get a bird’s-eye view of where we live and how we identify.

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White Black Hispanic Asian Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander American Indian/Alaskan Native Everyone else 1 dot = 150 people
White Black Hispanic Asian Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander American Indian/Alaskan Native Everyone else 1 dot = 150 people
Source: US Census Bureau
Notes: Dots are placed randomly within each census tract — small geographic areas that typically contain between 1,200 to 8,000 people — to represent population density and racial makeup. The dots do not represent exact locations of anybody. For the 2020 census, people could identify both as a race, such as “White” or “Black,” and as Hispanic or Latino. In this map, the dots representing a race do not include people who also identified as Hispanic or Latino; they are counted in the “Hispanic” category. “Everyone else” includes people who identified as another race or as two or more races. Dots have been placed in each tract for every 150, 300 or 900 people in each group, depending the map’s zoom level. Groups below the current people-per-dot threshold are not represented.