Guatemalan Americans

Guatemalan Americans
Total population
1,878,599 (2022)[1]
0.56% of the U.S. population (2022)[2]
Regions with significant populations
Southern California (especially in Los Angeles), Miami, Houston, San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, North Jersey, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Charlotte, Dallas, Atlanta, Las Vegas Valley, Inland Empire, Phoenix
Languages
American English, Guatemalan Spanish, Mayan languages
Religion
Roman Catholic, Evangelical Christianity, Indigenous beliefs
Related ethnic groups
Hispanic Americans, Guatemalans, Spanish Americans, Mexican Americans, Honduran Americans, Salvadoran Americans

Guatemalan Americans (Spanish: guatemalteco-americanos, norteamericanos de origen guatemalteco or estadounidenses de origen guatemalteco) are Americans of full or partial Guatemalan descent. The Guatemalan American population at the 2010 Census was 1,044,209. Guatemalans are the sixth largest Hispanic group in the United States and the second largest Central American population after Salvadorans. Half of the Guatemalan population is situated in two parts of the country, the Northeast and Southern California.

The states with the largest Guatemalan population are California (29%), Florida (8%) and Texas (7%).[3]

  1. ^ "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov.
  2. ^ "B03001 HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY SPECIFIC ORIGIN - United States - 2018 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". U.S. Census Bureau. July 1, 2018. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  3. ^ Moslimani, Mohamad; Noe-Bustamante, Luis; Shah, Sono. "Facts on Hispanics of Guatemalan origin in the United States, 2021".