Hispanic and Latino Americans in San Francisco

Hispanic and Latino Americans in San Francisco form (15.1%) of the population were 121,744 Hispanics or Latinos of any race. The principal Hispanic groups in the city were those of Mexican (7.4%), Salvadoran (2.0%), Nicaraguan (0.9%), Guatemalan (0.8%), and Puerto Rican (0.5%), ancestry. The Hispanic population is most heavily concentrated in the Mission District, Tenderloin District, and Excelsior District.

References

• Cordova, Cary (2017). The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Godfrey, Brian J. (2004). "Barrio Under Siege: Latino Sense of Place in San Francisco, California". In Arreola, Daniel D. (ed.). Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places: Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America. University of Texas Press.
• Sandoval, Tomás F. Summers Jr. (2013). Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco. University of North Carolina Press.