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UCLA LPPI New Brief Highlighting Latino Eligible Voters in Arizona
Arizona shows a rapidly growing Latino voter base poised to play a decisive role in the control of the White House.
LOS ANGELES (August 7, 2024) – The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (UCLA LPPI) released a new data brief on Latino eligible voters in Arizona, marking the second in a series of data briefs utilizing the Latino Data Hub to focus on Latino voters in critical states for the 2024 election.
The data brief provides a comprehensive analysis of the state’s Latino voter base, detailing their demographic growth, economic participation, educational attainment, language proficiency, housing, health insurance, and connectivity. The key findings include:
- Arizona has the fourth largest Latino eligible voter population, around 1.3 million.
The Latino-eligible voter population in Arizona has more than doubled since 2000, now making up 25% of the state’s electorate. - Latino adults in Arizona are significantly younger than eligible voters as a whole. Young voters ages 18-24 are more diverse than all eligible voters, and Latinos’ share among young voters isover 60% more than their share among the overall electorate.
- Almost half of all Latino eligible voters in Arizona are bilingual, and an additional 13% only speak Spanish.
- The proportion of Latino eligible voters living in overcrowded homes is almost twice that of the overall rate in the state. Additionally, 42% of Latino renters in the state face housing cost burdens.
- Latinos have the second highest labor force participation after multiracial individuals.
- The median household income for adult citizen Latinos is about $65,400, almost $12,000 less than the median for non-Hispanic whites.
- 65% of Latinos own their homes compared to 70% of the population overall and 75% of non-Hispanic whites.
See additional briefs part of the 2024 election, including Latino voters in Nevada here.
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The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute is a non-partisan research institute that seeks to inform, engage, and empower Latinos through innovative research and policy analysis. LPPI aims to promote equitable and inclusive policies that address the needs of the Latino community and advance social justice. latino.ucla.edu.
