The population with roots in Venezuela now ranks as the second-largest subgroup of Latinos in Utah behind Mexicans and Mexican Americans, reflecting the sharp growth of the community across the United States.
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Nationally, 1.17 million Latinos of Venezuelan origin lived in the United States, according to 2024 U.S. Census Bureau estimates released last September, up by approximately 113% from around 550,000 in 2019.
In Utah, the American Community Survey one-year estimates indicate the state was home to 23,134 Latinos with Venezuelan ancestry in 2024, up 186% from 8,095 in 2019. The figure represents U.S. citizens of Venezuelan descent and Venezuelan immigrants here, both legally and illegally. Moreover, those of Venezuelan descent were the second-largest subgroup of Latinos in Utah, trailing the much larger Mexican subgroup, which totaled 375,571.
By 2010, there were more people in Utah of Mexican, Salvadoran, Peruvian, Argentine, Puerto Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Cuban, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Chilean descent, but Venezuela surged past all of them except Mexico as of 2024. Similarly, the numeric increase of the Venezuelan population between 2010 and 2024, 21,373, easily surpassed the increase of all other Latino subgroups except Mexico, up by 95,923. The next largest numeric increases between 2010 and 2024 were among Colombians (up 15,244) and Chileans (up 11,397).
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Parallel to that, more than half of those in the Venezuelan subgroup in the United States are here “without authorization,” according to Pew. Many of them had temporary protected status or protection under a program geared to Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans before the administration of President Donald Trump ended the initiatives.
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