Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Population that are Hispanic or Latino in 2012
Updated on June 18, 2025.
Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2012, among all California counties, Imperial County had the highest percentage of its population who identified their ethnicity as Hispanic or Latino (81.53%), followed by Tulare County (61.86%), and San Benito County (57.14%).
The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all California counties.
You can see similar ranking information for other racial and ethnicity groups in the United States.
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Data Source: US Census Bureau (Vintage).
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Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are
Hispanic or Latino in 2012
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| Rank | County | % of County Population |
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| 1 | Imperial County | 81.53 |
| 2 | Tulare County | 61.86 |
| 3 | San Benito County | 57.14 |
| 4 | Monterey County | 56.41 |
| 5 | Colusa County | 56.31 |
| 6 | Merced County | 56.22 |
| 7 | Madera County | 55.2 |
| 8 | Kings County | 51.97 |
| 9 | Fresno County | 51.24 |
| 10 | San Bernardino County | 50.52 |
| 11 | Kern County | 50.26 |
| 12 | Los Angeles County | 48.02 |
| 13 | Riverside County | 46.47 |
| 14 | Santa Barbara County | 43.59 |
| 15 | Stanislaus County | 43.07 |
| 16 | Ventura County | 41.09 |
| 17 | San Joaquin County | 39.68 |
| 18 | Glenn County | 38.66 |
| 19 | Orange County | 33.9 |
| 20 | Napa County | 32.75 |
| 21 | San Diego County | 32.56 |
| 22 | Santa Cruz County | 32.54 |
| 23 | Yolo County | 30.8 |
| 24 | Sutter County | 29.32 |
| 25 | Mono County | 26.88 |
| 26 | Santa Clara County | 26.6 |
| 27 | Yuba County | 26.07 |
| 28 | Sonoma County | 25.43 |
| 29 | San Mateo County | 25.28 |
| 30 | Solano County | 24.66 |
| 31 | Contra Costa County | 24.64 |
| 32 | Mendocino County | 22.99 |
| 33 | Tehama County | 22.84 |
| 34 | Alameda County | 22.49 |
| 35 | Sacramento County | 22.01 |
| 36 | San Luis Obispo County | 21.46 |
| 37 | Inyo County | 20.58 |
| 38 | Del Norte County | 18.93 |
| 39 | Lassen County | 18.23 |
| 40 | Lake County | 17.82 |
| 41 | Marin County | 15.61 |
| 42 | San Francisco County | 15.27 |
| 43 | Butte County | 14.83 |
| 44 | Modoc County | 14.42 |
| 45 | Placer County | 13.23 |
| 46 | Amador County | 12.65 |
| 47 | El Dorado County | 12.19 |
| 48 | Tuolumne County | 11.12 |
| 49 | Siskiyou County | 11.05 |
| 50 | Calaveras County | 10.68 |
| 51 | Humboldt County | 10.2 |
| 52 | Mariposa County | 9.19 |
| 53 | Shasta County | 8.86 |
| 54 | Nevada County | 8.83 |
| 55 | Sierra County | 8.64 |
| 56 | Plumas County | 8.17 |
| 57 | Alpine County | 8.1 |
| 58 | Trinity County | 6.93 |