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Share Hispanic or Latino, any race and Summer daily high

Where Share Hispanic or Latino, any race is higher, Summer daily high tends to be higher. The link is moderate: +0.43 across 2,868 counties, on a scale from −1 (opposite) to +1 (in step). That figure compares places with the same population density, income and education, so those differences can't explain it. It holds inside states too. Measured separately within each of 40 states, the middle value of the link is +0.14.

Holds after adjusting

Every place, plotted

One dot for each place reporting both measures. Hover over or tap a dot to see its name and values. The thin line is the straight line that best fits the dots. The bold line, shown for counties, is the link after adjusting for density, income and education. A dot far from the lines is a place that does not follow the pattern.

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What each measure is

Share Hispanic or Latino, any race

The percentage of residents who are Hispanic or Latino, of any race. The Census asks about Hispanic origin separately from race. So this figure includes all races, and the race shares next to it count only people who are 'not Hispanic'.

Census ACS 5-year · ACS table B03002_012, divided by total population

Summer daily high

The average daily high temperature in June, July and August, in degrees Fahrenheit, across the whole county or state. It shows how hot summer afternoons are.

NOAA NCEI nClimDiv · NOAA NCEI nClimDiv climdiv-tmaxcy/tmaxst

Highest and lowest

Where each measure is highest and lowest among the places reporting both (2023), with the other measure beside it. This is shown for every size of place where both are published. Metro-area values are added up from their counties. A measure that cannot be added up across counties, such as a middle value (median), has no metro figure. Counts are shown per 1,000 residents, since raw totals would only list the largest places. Cities and towns and ZIP codes are shown where the Census survey or the CDC publishes them; most other sources stop at the county. They are shown for places of 5,000 residents or more, and only where the survey’s margin of error is small enough for the figure to be usable. The CDC publishes its health estimates for cities in a version adjusted for age, so places with older or younger people can be compared fairly, but not for ZIP codes.

Counties

By share Hispanic or Latino, any race

Share Hispanic or Latino, any raceSummer daily high
Highest
Starr County, TX97.3%102
Webb County, TX95.1%102
Maverick County, TX94.9%103
Zapata County, TX93.9%103
Zavala County, TX92.6%102
Lowest
Wirt County, WV0%82.2
Norton city, VA0%79
Highland County, VA0%77.5
Loving County, TX0%103
Sully County, SD0%84.3

By summer daily high

Share Hispanic or Latino, any raceSummer daily high
Highest
Imperial County, CA85.6%106
Yuma County, AZ64.4%106
La Paz County, AZ25.5%105
Maricopa County, AZ30.9%104
Ward County, TX55.4%103
Lowest
Aleutians West Census Area, AK13.8%53.7
Juneau City and Borough, AK6.99%54.9
Chugach Census Area, AK5.16%54.9
Anchorage Municipality, AK9.32%55.8
Aleutians East Borough, AK10.5%55.9
States

By share Hispanic or Latino, any race

Share Hispanic or Latino, any raceSummer daily high
Highest
New Mexico48.2%90.2
California39.8%88
Texas39.5%98.3
Arizona31%94.8
Nevada29.2%84.8
Lowest
West Virginia2.02%80.6
Maine2.08%73.7
Vermont2.49%75.3
Mississippi3.6%93.2
Montana4.39%78.8

By summer daily high

Share Hispanic or Latino, any raceSummer daily high
Highest
Texas39.5%98.3
Louisiana6.95%95.7
Arizona31%94.8
Mississippi3.6%93.2
Oklahoma12.3%93
Lowest
Alaska7.15%60.6
Maine2.08%73.7
Vermont2.49%75.3
New Hampshire4.52%75.5
Hawaii9.84%76.3
Metro areas

By share Hispanic or Latino, any race

Share Hispanic or Latino, any raceSummer daily high
Highest
Rio Grande City-Roma, TX97.3%102
Laredo, TX95.1%102
Eagle Pass, TX94.9%103
Zapata, TX93.9%103
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX91.9%100
Lowest
Selma, AL0.906%93
St. Marys, PA0.997%77.7
Gallipolis, OH1.03%81.8
Elkins, WV1.08%75.7
Pikeville, KY1.11%84.5

By summer daily high

Share Hispanic or Latino, any raceSummer daily high
Highest
El Centro, CA85.6%106
Yuma, AZ64.4%106
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ30.8%104
Zapata, TX93.9%103
Eagle Pass, TX94.9%103
Lowest
Juneau, AK6.99%54.9
Anchorage, AK8.18%57.3
Ketchikan, AK5.26%60.7
Breckenridge, CO20.4%67.5
Fairbanks-College, AK8.19%68.1
Cities and towns — Summer daily high is not published for cities and towns

By share Hispanic or Latino, any race

Share Hispanic or Latino, any raceSummer daily high
Highest
Elsa city, TX100%—
Salida del Sol Estates CDP, TX100%—
Cayey zona urbana, PR100%—
Coco comunidad, PR100%—
Juncos zona urbana, PR100%—
Lowest
Monroeville city, AL0%—
Holtville CDP, AL0%—
Halls CDP, TN0%—
Treasure Lake CDP, PA0%—
Wellston city, OH0%—
ZIP codes — Summer daily high is not published for ZIP codes

By share Hispanic or Latino, any race

Share Hispanic or Latino, any raceSummer daily high
Highest
ZIP 00723 (Patillas Municipio, PR)100%—
ZIP 00731 (Ponce Municipio, PR)100%—
ZIP 00782 (Comerío Municipio, PR)100%—
ZIP 00952 (Sabana Seca comunidad, PR)100%—
ZIP 00719 (Naranjito Municipio, PR)100%—
Lowest
ZIP 04457 (Penobscot County, ME)0%—
ZIP 04364 (Kennebec County, ME)0%—
ZIP 04002 (York County, ME)0%—
ZIP 03235 (Franklin city, NH)0%—
ZIP 03070 (Hillsborough County, NH)0%—

Counties furthest from the pattern

Compared with the straight line that best fits all 2,880 counties: the five with far more summer daily high than their share Hispanic or Latino, any race would suggest, and the five with far less.

Share Hispanic or Latino, any raceSummer daily high
Above the line
Loving County, TX0%103
La Paz County, AZ25.5%105
Archer County, TX9.01%101
Llano County, TX12.7%101
Clay County, TX6.78%100
Below the line
Aleutians West Census Area, AK13.8%53.7
Juneau City and Borough, AK6.99%54.9
Aleutians East Borough, AK10.5%55.9
Chugach Census Area, AK5.16%54.9
Anchorage Municipality, AK9.32%55.8

Two series, one county

Both measures over time for a county you pick. The two charts are stacked, so they share only the years along the bottom. You can pick from the thirty largest counties reporting both. This panel covers 2010–2024, and a measure published only once shows as a single dot.

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Every version of the link

Each row measures the same link, from −1 to +1, in a different way. If the rows mostly agree, the link does not depend on one choice of method.

Before adjusting for anything+0.3892,868 counties reporting both
After adjusting for density, income and education+0.427the part of the link that is not just how urban, rich and educated a place is
Also adjusting for population size+0.445size taken out as well as density
Also comparing only within each state+0.159each county is compared only with others in its own state, so this is no longer a comparison between states
Giving bigger counties more weight+0.462the adjusted link for the average resident rather than the average county. With this weighting, the data counts for about 284 equally weighted counties
Middle value inside single states+0.137the link worked out inside each of 40 states with at least 20 counties reporting
Using ranks, after adjusting+0.426uses each county’s rank, not its value, so a few extreme counties cannot create the link

How much to believe it

Could it be chance?

The p-value is the chance of seeing a link this strong if there were really none. A value of 0.05 or less means the link is unlikely to be chance. Very small values are written in short form: 3.1e-16 means 0.00000000000000031, and the bigger the number after “e-”, the smaller the value. Treating every county as a separate case gives p = 1.3e-127. But counties in the same state tend to resemble each other, so the better figure allows for that: p = 5.7e-6. The site tested 24,090 pairs, and testing so many turns up some flukes. The q-value allows for that too. For this pair it is 1.2e-126.

Do nearby places look alike?

Moran’s I measures how much nearby places look alike: 0 means no map pattern, and higher means neighbours are more similar. For the part of each county that the adjustment leaves unexplained, it is +0.82 (p = 0.001). That unexplained part still clusters on the map. So some regional factor shared by both measures is not accounted for.

Did they change together?

The figures above compare counties at one moment. This asks a different question: where share Hispanic or Latino, any race rose most, did summer daily highmove too? Each county’s change is compared with the average change in its own state. That takes out ups and downs that hit a whole region at once. Each change is the gap between two estimates that both contain some error. That error pulls these links towards zero, so a weak one is weak partly for that reason. The q column shows whether a link could be a fluke, allowing for the many pairs tested: 0.05 or less means it is unlikely to be chance.

PeriodCountiesChange togetherWithin statesq
2014–2019 the main test: each Census survey figure averages five years, and these two do not overlap; before the pandemic2,727+0.02+0.080.046
2019–2023 a repeat check: its two five-year survey figures both include 2019, and it covers the COVID years2,746-0.03-0.020.706

In counties where one changed more, the other tended to move the same way, compared with other counties in the same state (r = +0.08). It does not hold clearly in the second period, which spans the pandemic. How change is measured.

Related pairs

Association only. Nothing here shows that either measure changes the other. This describes counties, not the people in them. Two measures going together across places does not mean the same people have both. How the US county data works · Explore Share Hispanic or Latino, any race and Summer daily high