| Black Groups | Numbera (in millions) |
Percent of U.S. Black Population | Percent of U.S. Population | Native Born (%) | Speak a Language Other Than English at Home and Speak English Less Than "Very Well" (%) | Less Than High School Graduationb (%) | Poverty Rate (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African-American | 24.5 | 67.0 | 8.6 | 99.0 | c | 24.3 | 23.2 |
| Afro-Caribbean | 1.6 | 4.4 | 0.6 | 30.4 | c | 27.6 | 15.5 |
| African | 1.5 | 4.2 | 0.5 | 68.3 | 34.2c | 21.2 | 22.3 |
| Other or no ancestry reported | 9.0 | 24.5 | 3.1 | 91.0 | 38.8 | 29.8 | |
| Total Black | 36.6 | 100.0 | 12.8 | 92.8 | 36.1c | 27.7d | 24.3 |
| Total U.S. population | 285.2 | 12.8 | NA | 88.9 | 8.1 | 19.6 | 12.4 |
| Blacks speaking Spanish at home | 1.5 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 78.7 | 37.5c | 32.3 | 30.1 |
| Blacks speaking other Indo-European languages at home | 0.9 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 39.6 | 38.5c | 31.1 | 20.3 |
| Blacks speaking Asian and Pacific Islander languages at home | 0.06 | 0.2 | 0.02 | 67.7 | 29.8c | 21.1 | 16.7 |
| Blacks speaking all other languages at home | 0.06 | 0.2 | 0.02 | 55.8 | 28.4c | 22.4 | 28.7 |
a Black race alone and in combination.
b Population 25 and older (20.8 million).
c U.S. Census Bureau, 2006b. Calculations using Census data. Black race alone. Population 5 years and older.
d U.S. Census Bureau, 2006a. Calculations using Census data.
Source: McKinnon and Bennett, 2005, and Subcommittee tabulations from the 2000 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS).
