List of Mexican-American communities

This is a list of communities known for possessing a community or a large number of Mexican Americans. About 61 percent of Mexican Americans live in just two states, namely California (36%) and Texas (25%). According to the 2010 census, the distribution of Mexican Americans in the United States by region is: 51.8% live in the West, 34.4% in the South, 10.9% in the Midwest, and 2.9% in the Northeast.

Mexican Americans are found in all 50 states. The number of Mexican Americans has been increasing dramatically due to Mexican immigration in the late 20th century.

The largest communities by population are located in Los Angeles (esp. East Los Angeles (region), which became a Chicano community since the end of World War II), East L.A. was 65% Mexican-American in the 1970 US census reports, but has dropped to 40 percent today and 88% of Mexicans living in East L.A. are now immigrants. The suburb of Maywood is another largely Mexican and Latino community. Then there's Santa Ana, California in Orange County, San Diego and San Bernardino in Southern California; and San Francisco (the San Francisco Bay Area) including San Jose, California. The largest communities by percentage are found in the California cities of Calexico, Coachella, Huron, McFarland, Mecca (unincorporated), Parlier and Thermal (unincorporated). There are Mexican American majority regions in Central California and Southern California as well in southern Texas and southern Arizona.

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