Are there hispanics in alaska

Tonight, I threw some search terms through Google but came up with no current data on Alaskan Latinos. High-paying jobs are luring Mexicans to Alaska. Since , Alaska's Hispanic population has nearly tripled from 9, to 25, Hispanics now make up 4. That is, approximately 37, persons of Hispanic or Latino origin lived in Alaska at the time of the US Census, right around the time when Sarah Palin first arrived on the gubernatorial scene in Juneau.

Back then, in the rest of the country, persons of Hispanic or Latino origin made up That's approximately 44,, persons of Hispanic or Latino origin in the United States, or over 66 times greater than the population of Alaska. Or almost 4, times greater than the population of Wasilla 9, The analysis from the Alaska Department of Labor shows that the median age of Hispanics in Alaska was That's much younger than the median age of the entire population that was recorded at The Department's Demographer notes that roughly half of Alaska's Hispanic population growth between and is due to migration.

Over percent of the of Hispanic Alaskans live in Anchorage. They soon learned that Alaska has high living costs, but some stayed, attracted by the fact that Alaska has no sales or state income tax and annual payouts to residents. Alaska is also considered more tolerant of different people and cultures than many other states.

In Utah, formerly migrant workers from Mexico are settling down as permanent residents and becoming year-round workers in the meat packing industry. Utah State University economist Dawn Thilmany believes that many immigrants are filling jobs that otherwise may not have been filled. Police report that in metropolitan Salt Lake City, 80 percent of those arrested on drug charges are illegal immigrants.

A Latino theater group in Salt Lake City performed a play centered on the INS scaring away the unauthorized shepherds abiding in the field.

And if you already knew these places were Hispanic, check out the best places to live in Alaska or the safest places in Alaska. Next 10 Cities. We still believe in the accuracy of data -- especially from the census. So that's where we went to get the breakdown of race across Alaska.

Here are the category names as defined by the Census:. Our particular column of interest here was the number of people who identified as Hispanic or Latino. We limited our analysis to non-CDPs with a population greater than 6, people. That left us with 10 cities.