According to the 1990 Census, 78
percent of the Byzantine-Latino Quarter's population is Hispanic, twice
the percentage of the County of Los Angeles (37 percent). The rest of the
population of the Byzantine-Latino Quarter comprises Asian of Pacific Islanders
(12 percent), blacks (6 percent), whites (4 percent), and other races (1
percent) (Table 1).
Table 2 shows the distribution of residents of
Hispanic origin by nationality throughout the decades. The proportion of
residents of Hispanic origin changed from 1 percent in 1940 to 2.2 percent
in 1950. From 1950 to 1960 there was a considerable increase (from 2.2
percent to 16.2 percent). Further, in 1970 people of Hispanic origin constituted
almost half of the population of the area (44.9 percent). At the 1980 Census,
more than half of the population was of Hispanic origin (70 percent). Finally,
in 1990 people of Hispanic origin constituted 82 percent of total population
in the Byzantine-Latino Quarter. Thirty-seven percent of the population
was of Mexican origin, 22 percent was of Salvadoran origin, eight percent
of Guatemalan origin, 4 percent of Nicaraguan origin, and 3 percent of
Honduran origin. The table also shows that the population of Mexican origin
increased from about 1 percent in 1940 to 41 percent in 1980, and then
decreased to 37 percent between 1980 and 1990. |
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