Texas: In El Paso County, the Hispanic population increased from 78% to 82%, while the white population declined from 17% to 13% between 1999 and 2009

The percentage of Hispanics in the city of El Paso rose 4 points, to 81%, while the percentage of whites fell 4 points, to 14%. Hispanics accounted for 107% of the city's population growth. The city's white population dropped by 10,996, while it saw an increase of 91,846 Hispanics. Between the 2000 and 2010 census, the number of whites under 18 in El Paso declined by 4,800, or 22.5%, to 16,502. El Paso's under-18 Hispanic population grew by 18,387, or 12.7%, to 163,469. That means Hispanics now make up 86.6% of that age group. The census found that Hispanics comprised 50.5 million of the nation's 309 million population in 2010. Of those, an estimated 12 million were illegal immigrants. In Texas, Hispanics constituted 9.5 million of the state's total population of 25 million. There are just under 1.8 million illegal immigrant Hispanics in the state, which accounts for 19% of its Hispanic population. Statewide, the census counted 15.4 million people 25 or older. Of those, 8 million were whites, and 4.9 million were Hispanic. Among whites, 8.3% had less than a high school education, 25.3% had a high school diploma, 32.5% had some college or an associate degree and 34% had a bachelor's or higher degree. Among Texas Hispanics 25 or older, 42.5% had less than a high school education, 25.2% had a high school diploma, 21.4% had some college or an associate's degree and 11% had a bachelor's or higher degree. The census found that the 4.1 million Texans in poverty accounted for 17.2% of the state's population in 2009, up from 15.4% in 1999. The 1 million whites in poverty represented 9% of that group's population. The 2.3 million poor Hispanics made up 26.4% of the Hispanic population. The 630,479 black Texans in poverty accounted for 23% of that population. In white households in Texas, the median income was $59,836 in 2009, down from $60,838 in 1999, when adjusted to 2009 dollars. The median income for Hispanic households was $35,628 in 2009, which fell from $38,536 a decade earlier. That meant the median income for white households in 2009 was $24,208 higher than for Hispanic households, a disparity of 40%. In 1999, the disparity in median household incomes between white and Hispanic households was 37%. Nationally, the median household income actually fell 7.4% from $54,172 in 1999, when adjusted to 2009 dollars, to $50,221 in 2009.