Congressional Districts by specific ethnicity

[Vega]

I seem to be having a rather hard time finding data for specific ethnicities (e.g. Chinese, Pakistani, etc.) when it comes to the racial makeup of congressional districts; is there any way to get this? Asian is a pretty broad category, and not particularly helpful when trying to find data, for example.

[jimrtex]

I seem to be having a rather hard time finding data for specific ethnicities (e.g. Chinese, Pakistani, etc.) when it comes to the racial makeup of congressional districts; is there any way to get this? Asian is a pretty broad category, and not particularly helpful when trying to find data, for example.

Use the American FactFinder on the Census Bureau web site.

On the initial page, "Data" tab, "Data Tools and Apps", "American Factfinder"

Select "Advanced Features" and "Show Me All"

Select "Topics", "People", "Origins", "Race or Ethnic Group"

Select "Topics", "Year", "2010" and "Topics" "Data Set", "2010 SF1 100%"

OR

Select "Topics", "Year", "2013" and "Topics" "Data Set", "2013 ACS 5-Year Estimates"

Note, if you use the Census you will be limited to the old districts (111th Congress 2009-2011), but you will be able to get data for smaller groups (eg Bhutanese), and it will be unsampled data (when someone says they are Asian, Pacific Islander, American Native, or Hispanic, they are also asked for a subflavor).   If they are White or Black, they can only indicate an ancestry (it all evens out since Asians can't have Chinese ancestry).

The ACS is sampled data.  It is somewhat more current, but is time smeared.  The latest data released is 2009-2013 (midpoint July 2011), so about a year more current than the census.  As the decade progresses, the gap will widen.  You can also use the 3-year ACS (but it has been discontinued), or the 1-year ACS.  More current, but the margin of error is increased.  The 1-year ACS will give estimates  for areas as large as a congressional district, but not for smaller entities.

Under "Geography" click on radio button for all Geographic Data Types, then select "Congressional Districts".  You could then select specific ones, but it is just as easy to select all in the United States.

You will have a long list of possible table that match your filters (2013, 5-year ACS, Racial or Ethnic, Congressional Districts).

The quickest way to get what you want is probably to enter something like "Chinese" in the search box.  "Chinese" is not a table, but is a row in a table.   Select B02006.  Note the "i" for information button at the far right will show what rows are in each table.

Click on "View".  You can also click on Download, but with View, you can make sure it is the data that you want, and do Download from the View page.  You can also select Create a Map.  When you are asked to select a data item, you don't click on "Bangladeshi" but on the number of Bangladeshi in some congressional district.

If you are wanting to calculate percentages, you will want to also get total population.  You will have to get that separately and then merger the two.  Since congressional districts are roughly the same size, I've skipped that step.

CDs with more than 70,000 Asians (roughly 10%).  CA-17 in San Jose and HI-1 Honolulu must be majority Asian or very close.

CA-17   356425
HI-1   351842
NY-6   268975
CA-27   263186
CA-12   224522
CA-14   223915
CA-39   206525
CA-15   206484
CA-19   188023
HI-2   174901
CA-45   154798
CA-47   152998
CA-13   149606
WA-9   145284
CA-18   140238
NY-7   135612
CA-34   135522
CA-52   134941
VA-11   130365
NJ-6   129108
NY-10   125746
CA-48   124998
TX-22   119829
NY-14   116979
NJ-12   113479
CA-32   113239
CA-6   108787
CA-38   103701
CA-7   102331
CA-33   97728
CA-9   97059
NY-3   95384
NY-5   95244
CA-53   94165
CA-28   92066
TX-3   91323
CA-11   91081
NJ-9   90830
VA-10   90272
IL-9   90038
NV-3   89557
CA-30   89420
CA-43   88701
NY-11   88382
NY-12   87978
IL-8   86143
GA-7   84476
VA-8   82986
CA-46   82557
TX-24   80369
TX-9   78346
MD-6   75902
CA-5   75476
CA-3   74734
MN-4   72597
MA-5   71886
WA-7   71382

Top 10 Indian

CA-17   104479
NJ-6   77224
NJ-12   63712
NY-5   57482
CA-15   51702
TX-22   42947
IL-8   42484
TX-24   35003
TX-3   34096
NY-3   33949

Top 10 Bangladeshi

NY-14   14441
NY-5   9231
NY-6   9082
MI-14   4953
NY-10   3917
NY-12   3453
NY-13   3355
VA-8   3012
NY-15   2962
NJ-9   2947

Top 10 Cambodian

CA-47   14323
MA-3   14295
CA-9   10967
WA-10   5094
PA-1   4677
PA-13   4657
CA-10   4442
WA-9   4344
CA-44   4183
MA-6   4136

Top 10 Chinese (excluding Taiwanese)

CA-27   160843
NY-6   142872
CA-12   138012
NY-7   101512
CA-17   100947
CA-14   97191
NY-10   78186
CA-13   71049
CA-39   70940
CA-15   57067

Top 10 Filipino (Top 25 are all in CA, HI, and NV)

HI-1   113542
HI-2   84012
CA-14   75487
CA-53   57869
CA-15   54393
CA-17   53713
NV-3   44204
CA-5   43433
CA-52   39188
CA-19   37108

Top 10 Hmong

MN-4   35962
CA-16   26014
CA-6   17678
MN-5   12543
WI-4   11236
CA-22   10533
CA-7   8759
WI-3   8385
CA-9   8326
WI-6   7568

Top 10 Indonesian

CA-31   3134
CA-39   2227
CA-27   1926
NY-6   1918
CA-45   1279
CA-12   1145
NH-1   984
MD-8   944
CA-35   932
CA-32   926

Top 10 Japanese

HI-1   126230
HI-2   60420
CA-43   22386
CA-33   15508
CA-27   13521
CA-18   12729
CA-45   11108
CA-37   10922
CA-17   10699
CA-12   9895

Top 10 Korean

CA-34   57048
CA-39   46559
NY-6   40271
NJ-9   37155
VA-11   30377
CA-45   26285
CA-28   25463
CA-33   22797
GA-7   22673
CA-38   21735

Top 10 Laotian

CA-6   9133
CA-16   7754
CA-22   4398
CA-9   4249
WA-9   4009
AR-3   3908
TN-4   3459
CA-7   3179
CA-11   3057
OR-3   3011

Top 10 Malaysian

NY-6   975
NY-7   595
TX-22   364
FL-9   333
CA-12   307
CA-17   296
NY-14   286
NY-12   281
CA-27   267
NY-3   256

Top 10 Pakistani

VA-11   9196
NY-9   8611
TX-22   8441
NY-6   8031
IL-9   7316
VA-8   7162
NY-11   6482
NY-5   6171
NY-14   5539
NJ-6   5208

Top 10 Sri Lankan

CA-30   1395
NY-11   1144
CA-43   1035
NJ-6   931
CA-45   839
NY-5   771
VA-8   770
MD-8   703
CA-27   696
MD-3   693

Top 10 Taiwanese

CA-27   8156
CA-39   6919
CA-17   6335
CA-45   4830
NY-6   4508
CA-18   4242
CA-33   2700
CA-32   1920
CA-12   1916
CA-52   1836

Top 10 Thai

CA-29   4296
VA-8   3025
CA-28   2634
CA-27   2394
CA-30   2376
CA-38   2287
NV-3   2083
CA-12   1957
CA-32   1952
CA-39   1839

Top 10 Vietnamese

CA-19   75808
CA-48   67873
CA-47   59603
CA-17   46774
CA-46   35436
TX-9   30470
CA-27   26482
WA-9   22862
CA-45   21794
TX-22   20709

[jimrtex]

Districts with largest Asian group - Indian (176 CDs)

CA-17   104479
NJ-6   77224
NJ-12   63712
NY-5   57482
TX-22   42947
IL-8   42484
TX-24   35003
TX-3   34096
NY-3   33949
VA-10   33907
MI-11   28731
NJ-8   28001
GA-6   26716
NJ-11   25782
IL-10   24604
NJ-7   23893
IL-9   22980
IL-11   20220
NJ-5   19246
IL-6   19061
NY-4   19042
PA-13   17583
WA-1   17203
TX-7   16506
CT-1   15293
VA-8   15284
NY-17   14568
PA-8   14086
MD-3   13098
PA-6   12651
DE-AL   12522
CT-4   12202
MI-14   11747
IL-14   11641
NY-16   11629
WA-8   11501
VA-7   11342
TX-26   11258
NC-9   11006
MD-7   10985
MN-3   10979
OR-1   10831
MO-2   10821
AZ-6   10624
MA-2   10401
NC-4   10386
OH-12   10105
TX-10   10080
NC-2   9779
MD-2   9578
FL-15   9572
NC-12   9527
NJ-1   9504
AZ-9   9344
KS-3   9289
NJ-3   9180
TX-31   9096
CT-3   9024
NY-20   9001
GA-4   8984
PA-7   8804
NJ-4   8755
IL-18   8656
FL-23   8385
FL-7   8363
OH-1   8326
FL-21   8048
NY-2   7984
IN-5   7972
NJ-2   7970
MA-6   7922
MI-8   7571
MI-9   7521
FL-10   7435
GA-11   7374
FL-9   7369
CT-5   7081
GA-5   6720
NY-18   6640
NC-13   6619
WI-5   6410
NY-26   6402
FL-12   6348
OH-3   6281
OH-16   6269
MN-2   6262
PA-15   6145
PA-18   5621
FL-20   5421
TX-21   5409
OH-14   5394
GA-13   5372
NH-2   5272
DC-Del   5171
TX-20   5137
TX-36   5132
TX-25   5081
NY-15   5031
OH-10   4649
KY-3   4645
AZ-8   4551
PA-17   4550
OH-15   4509
WI-1   4261
FL-24   4252
PA-4   4173
FL-6   4168
GA-3   4101
FL-22   4054
FL-2   4034
TX-8   4000
NE-2   3978
OH-8   3971
FL-8   3912
TN-5   3812
TN-7   3785
IA-2   3702
AR-2   3673
AL-6   3650
TX-5   3605
PA-12   3601
GA-10   3551
GA-8   3389
FL-18   3364
MI-10   3285
PA-11   3218
TN-8   3190
SC-4   3175
MI-13   3145
OH-2   3064
NH-1   3029
VA-6   2993
MI-6   2901
AL-5   2894
IN-1   2868
TX-23   2803
SC-2   2800
CO-4   2779
FL-16   2734
NC-1   2711
FL-11   2708
IN-6   2613
NC-6   2499
GA-1   2442
IL-17   2371
NC-5   2351
OK-3   2264
TN-2   2237
GA-2   2191
IA-1   2183
TN-3   2152
SC-5   2087
MS-3   1965
PA-10   1959
GA-14   1941
MI-4   1814
MO-3   1786
MI-5   1741
TN-1   1719
PA-3   1690
ND-AL   1604
MI-7   1595
TN-6   1576
SC-3   1558
MS-2   1477
TX-4   1452
NC-8   1414
WV-2   1368
IN-8   1339
MS-1   1263
AL-7   1245
OH-7   1220
TX-34   1152
IL-15   1045
WV-3   704
KY-5   561

Districts with largest Asian group - Chinese (107 CDs)

CA-27   160843
NY-6   142872
CA-12   138012
NY-7   101512
CA-14   97191
NY-10   78186
CA-13   71049
CA-39   70940
CA-15   57067
CA-18   51235
NY-11   51065
CA-32   42589
NY-14   38313
WA-9   35555
CA-45   34287
MA-5   30119
NY-12   29558
MA-7   28253
CA-11   27216
CA-33   24453
MA-8   24115
CA-6   22988
MD-6   21590
NY-9   20044
MD-8   18187
MA-4   17393
IL-7   17283
CA-37   16626
WA-7   16588
IL-3   14512
PA-1   14278
NY-8   12804
PA-2   10078
NY-13   9340
MI-12   9105
NY-1   8312
WI-2   7805
IL-13   7755
CT-2   7494
PA-14   6448
NY-25   6432
CA-2   5787
AZ-2   5744
IN-4   5576
NY-23   5490
OR-5   5450
CO-2   5361
OH-11   5046
MO-1   5039
FL-25   4744
IN-9   4539
FL-26   4256
NY-24   4156
OR-4   4117
FL-27   4017
KY-6   3974
RI-2   3860
NY-22   3739
PA-5   3648
RI-1   3598
IL-1   3552
UT-2   3479
UT-4   3437
WA-5   3437
UT-3   3192
IA-4   3130
VA-5   3121
MA-9   3069
KS-2   2946
MO-4   2806
MA-1   2577
NY-19   2559
VA-9   2401
OH-5   2335
ID-1   2321
FL-19   2132
UT-1   2120
NY-27   2096
OH-13   2062
OH-9   2024
NM-3   2012
VT-AL   1909
MO-7   1893
ME-1   1877
MI-3   1846
SD-AL   1760
IN-2   1667
KY-4   1610
OR-2   1594
SC-7   1561
NY-21   1549
MO-6   1527
WV-1   1504
PA-9   1425
SC-6   1401
CO-3   1327
OH-4   1292
ME-2   1274
MN-8   1151
MO-8   1139
NC-7   1134
AR-1   1055
AL-4   1030
MI-1   1011
KY-1   1007
NE-3   814
OH-6   694

Districts with largest Asian group - Filipino (74 CDs)

HI-2   84012
CA-53   57869
NV-3   44204
CA-5   43433
CA-52   39188
CA-9   33701
CA-38   32356
CA-28   32243
CA-29   31465
CA-51   29894
CA-30   28437
NV-1   26689
CA-44   24666
CA-3   24090
CA-42   23647
CA-7   22890
VA-2   21504
NV-4   20978
CA-25   20170
AK-AL   20039
NJ-10   19662
CA-26   16766
CA-31   16563
CA-20   15960
CA-50   15842
IL-5   15628
CA-35   15346
CA-10   13509
CA-49   12739
WA-2   12614
CA-23   12532
CA-21   12280
CA-41   11515
FL-4   11479
NV-2   11417
CA-4   10275
CA-36   10027
WA-6   9734
CA-24   9354
MD-5   7654
IL-4   7609
AZ-5   7556
FL-1   6763
CA-8   6567
MD-4   6423
CA-40   5677
FL-3   5270
FL-5   4575
VA-1   4533
TX-15   4486
VA-4   4401
SC-1   4162
VA-3   3933
MD-1   3400
AZ-3   2883
AZ-1   2779
NC-3   2571
FL-17   2452
TX-27   2306
AZ-4   2274
IL-16   2263
WA-4   2029
TX-19   2007
TX-28   2002
TX-16   1710
IL-2   1652
TX-1   1578
IL-12   1482
LA-4   1387
MT-AL   1325
TX-11   1276
NM-2   1249
WY-AL   1245
AR-4   903

Districts with largest Asian group - Vietnamese (44 CDs)

CA-19   75808
CA-48   67873
CA-47   59603
CA-46   35436
TX-9   30470
TX-32   18979
OR-3   17303
TX-6   16715
TX-2   16220
LA-2   14627
KS-4   11149
TX-18   9837
TX-17   7994
OK-5   7230
TX-14   7123
CO-1   7085
TX-12   6624
TX-29   6586
FL-13   6416
CO-7   6388
TX-33   6227
FL-14   5716
NE-1   5567
MS-4   5186
LA-6   5076
TX-30   4909
MI-2   4503
WA-3   4276
OK-4   4230
LA-1   4213
AZ-7   4139
NM-1   4021
MO-5   3962
IA-3   3771
TN-9   3569
LA-3   3412
PA-16   3277
OK-1   3239
AL-1   3101
TX-13   3079
TX-35   2391
KS-1   2164
GA-9   2147
LA-5   1201

Districts with largest Asian group - Hmong (15 CDs)

MN-4   35962
CA-16   26014
MN-5   12543
WI-4   11236
CA-22   10533
WI-3   8385
WI-6   7568
WI-8   7514
WI-7   5826
CA-1   4241
MN-6   3501
NC-10   2967
NC-11   2135
OK-2   950
MN-7   906

Districts with largest Asian group - Korean (10 CDs)

CA-34   57048
NJ-9   37155
VA-11   30377
GA-7   22673
WA-10   10355
CO-6   7412
CO-5   4450
AL-3   2850
GA-12   2389
AL-2   2224

Districts with largest Asian group - Japanese (3 CDs)

HI-1   126230
CA-43   22386
ID-2   1849

Districts with largest Asian group - Laotian (3 CDs)

AR-3   3908
TN-4   3459
MN-1   2347

Districts with largest Asian group - Other Asian (3 CDs)

IN-7   4188
IN-3   3080
KY-2   1412

Districts with largest Asian group - Cambodian (1 CD)

MA-3   14295

[Vega]

Ah, thanks a lot!

[jimrtex]

Districts with largest Asian group - Other Asian (3 CDs)

IN-7   4188
IN-3   3080
KY-2   1412

The "other" group in the two Indiana districts appears to be Burmese.  As we all know, Fort Wayne has a major concentration of Burmese.

I'm not sure about KY-2.  It has a fairly small total Asian population, but it is quite evenly distributed among Indians, Cambodians, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, and Burmese.

The Burmese would be included with the "Other Asian", along with Mongolian, Bhutanese, Maldivians, Singaoporean, Iwo Jiman, Nepalese, and Okinawans.

If Asian and other race persons are included, the numbers of Korean, Japanese, and Filipino increase significantly, suggesting that Fort Knox is connected.

[Torie]

Interesting that with Bangladeshis, the 10th most CD, in NY, has less than 3,000 of them, yet NY-19 is not listed, and in the city of Hudson, population 6,403, there are probably around 400 or so Bangladeshis (one of whom is one of my two alderpersons in Ward 2). So I guess Hudson is unusual in the area in that respect.

[jimrtex]

Interesting that with Bangladeshis, the 10th most CD, in NY, has less than 3,000 of them, yet NY-19 is not listed, and in the city of Hudson, population 6,403, there are probably around 400 or so Bangladeshis (one of whom is one of my two alderpersons in Ward 2). So I guess Hudson is unusual in the area in that respect.

Hudson is indeed exceptional (in this regard).

In NYC, there are around 55,000 with about 60% of those in Queens, and another 5,000 on Long Island outside the city.

Larger counties outside NYC such as Erie (Buffalo), Monroe (Rochester), Onondaga (Syracuse), and Albany (Albany) number in the few hundreds each.  But Columbia fits right in with this group despite a much smaller population.  In 2010, all but 2 Columbian Bangladeshi weere Hudsonians.

There are smaller numbers, around 100 in other Hudson Valley counties such as Rensselaer, Ulster, and Dutchess.

[Torie]

What is the Bangledeshi population of Columbia County? I tried to look it up, but there isn't even a category for Bangladeshis that I could find.

[jimrtex]

What is the Bangledeshi population of Columbia County? I tried to look it up, but there isn't even a category for Bangladeshis that I could find.

On American FactFinder.

Select:

Year 2010
Data Set Census SF1 10%

You will have a huge list of tables.
Search for "Bangladeshi"
This will reduce the list to several having to do with Asian by source.  Click on all of them.

Then go to Geography.  Be sure to select all geographic types.

You can choose Place or County or County Subdivision or Census Tract.  But the two census tracts in Hudson don't correspond to anything useful.

There is some indication that some persons identified as both Indian and Bangladeshi (or perhaps Bengali).  Under Asian there is a check box for Asian Indian, Chinese, Japanese, etc., and a space to write in.

There are 3 tables:

(1) Asian alone and one origin alone.
(2) Asian alone and one or more origins.
(3) Asian + other race and one or more origin.

(3) Could include mixed race offspring, or persons who identified as multiracial.  I suspect some South Asians don't necessarily think of themselves as being Asian.  In the US, "Asian" has conventionally meant Chinese or Japanese, and "Indian" was something else.  This is opposite of the British convention that someone from the subcontinent is "Asian" and "Chinese" are something else.

Anyhow, under (1) there are 242 Bangladeshi and 115 Asian Indian in Hudson.  Under category (2) there are 256 Bangladeshi and 129 Asian Indian.  For all other origins (eg Japanese, etc.) the numbers are the same.   So we can conclude that 14 persons said they were Asian, and checked the Asian Indian box and then wrote in either "Bangladeshi" or "Bengali" or perhaps some abbreviation.

It is conceivable that some persons are Bengali-speaking Muslims from Kolkata, rather from Bengali-speaking Muslims from Dhaka.

Bangladeshi are vey concentrated in Hudson.  Other groups are more mixed, or the reverse.

Bangladeshi 242/248 (Hudson/Columbia)
Indian 115/256
Chinese 26/152
Filipino 24/72
Pakistani 18/28
Nepalese 7/11
Korean 6/65
Japanese 3/59
Vietnamese 1/33

I did a little bit of checking on language, which requires using the ACS.  For 2009-2013:

Language spoken at home:

Spanish 344
Other Indic 284
Polish 71

They only provide a breakout for Hindi, Urdu, and Gujarati, but presumably the "Other Indic" is Bengali.  The MOE for these groups are really huge, but clearly Bengali is at least on par with Spanish as a language spoken at home (I assume that people at the Hudson Correction Institute are included in this question.  If so, they might be included as speaking Spanish at home).

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This was really interesting so I decided to collect in map form.

[jimrtex]

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This was really interesting so I decided to collect in map form.

It is interesting that the Chinese areas are somewhat residual, as they are being superseded by Indians, except in NYC and the SF Bay area.

[pikachu]

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This was really interesting so I decided to collect in map form.

It is interesting that the Chinese areas are somewhat residual, as they are being superseded by Indians, except in NYC and the SF Bay area.

It looks like Chinese are the more prominent group in 'older' cities, like the ones you mentioned, and LA, Chicago, Boston, and Philly. Indians seemed to have skipped settling in the core city (other than Queens), and have straight went for the suburbs.

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Which congressional districts have the highest percentage of Colombians (by ethnicity)?

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Which congressional districts have the highest percentage of Colombians (by ethnicity)?

33 CDs are majority Hispanic, 14 in California, 9 in Texas, 3 in Florida, 2 in Arizona and New York,  and one each in Illinois, New Jersey, and New Mexico.

CA-40   87.2%
TX-34   82.8%
TX-15   80.5%
TX-16   79.5%
TX-28   76.9%
TX-29   76.6%
FL-27   73.5%
CA-21   71.6%
FL-25   71.0%
IL-4   70.7%
TX-23   69.5%
CA-44   69.2%
CA-35   69.2%
CA-51   69.0%
CA-29   68.4%
TX-20   68.1%
FL-26   67.9%
CA-46   66.5%
NY-15   66.1%
CA-34   65.6%
TX-33   65.5%
AZ-7   64.4%
TX-35   63.2%
CA-32   62.0%
AZ-3   61.3%
CA-38   61.3%
CA-16   58.3%
CA-41   57.4%
NY-13   54.0%
NJ-8   53.8%
NM-2   52.0%
CA-20   51.0%
CA-31   50.5%

33 districts are 50%+ Hispanic
114 20%+
220 10%+
320 5%
412 2%
434 1%+

The two that are less than 1% are

OH-6   0.97%
WV-3   0.88%

279 districts have Colombians as dominant South American Hispanic origin, including (top 10)

FL-23   6.1%
FL-26   5.8%
FL-25   5.8%
NY-14   5.0%
NJ-8   4.1%
FL-9   3.6%
NY-6   3.4%
FL-21   3.4%
FL-27   3.2%
FL-24   2.9%

8 districts have Argentinians as dominant South American Hispanic origin, including (0.1% or more)

UT-3   0.37%
CA-48   0.30%
IL-14   0.14%

4 districts have Bolivians as dominant South American Hispanic origin, including (0.1% or more)

VA-8   2.26%
VA-11   1.82%
AZ-4   0.11%
TX-33   0.11%

3 districts have Chileans as dominant South American Hispanic origin, with WY-AL largest share.

WY-AL   0.05%

44 districts have Ecuadorians as dominant South American Hispanic origin, including (top 10)

NY-14   8.25%
NJ-8   7.23%
NY-7   4.84%
NY-17   3.15%
NY-15   2.77%
NY-13   2.08%
NY-5   1.94%
NJ-10   1.70%
IL-4   1.67%
NY-1   1.60%

92 districts have Peruvians as dominant South American Hispanic origin, including (top 10)

NJ-9   3.44%
MD-6   1.07%
VA-10   0.97%
CT-1   0.96%
MD-8   0.75%
CA-30   0.75%
CA-14   0.71%
CA-43   0.56%
CA-11   0.54%
UT-4   0.54%

One district has Uruguayans as dominant South American Hispanic origin.

VA-6   0.11%

5 districts have Venezuelans as dominant South American Hispanic origin, including (0.1% or more)

TX-22   0.51%
TN-9   0.11%