Which states had the largest Hispanic population growth rates from 2020 to 2025?

1. The headline: Hispanics powered recent U.S. population gains, but state-by-state 2020–2025 rates aren’t in these files

U.S. Census releases and policy analyses in the search results stress that Hispanic growth accounted for a disproportionate share of national population increases in the early 2020s — for example, Hispanics were credited with about 71% of U.S. growth between 2022 and 2023 and the Hispanic population rose to just over 65 million in 2023 ^[1]. Other syntheses put the Hispanic population near 67 million as of mid‑2024 and note a rise in Hispanic share of the national population from about 18.8% in 2020 to about 20% by 2024 ^{[2] [3]}. However, the provided collection does not include a direct, authoritative table or map that lists each state’s percent change for 2020–2025, so a precise state ranking for that five‑year span is not present in current reporting (available sources do not mention a comprehensive 2020–2025 state ranking).

2. What the available sources do report about state and regional trends

Analysts and secondary sites highlight a durable pattern: large Hispanic populations remain concentrated in California, Texas, Florida and New York, while the fastest proportional growth in earlier decades tended to occur in states that historically had small Hispanic shares ^{[4] [5]}. For example, states with historically small Hispanic populations such as North Dakota and South Dakota showed high percentage increases in the 2010–2020 decade, and Brookings‑linked reporting and Stateline note that Hispanic and Asian populations reversed or slowed population losses in many states in the post‑pandemic rebound ^{[5] [6]}. These patterns imply the highest relative growth rates often occur in lower‑base states, but the exact 2020–2025 winners are not listed in the supplied set (available sources do not list explicit 2020–2025 state winners).

3. Why different sources produce different impressions — definitions, vintages and methods

Reports use different vintages of Census estimates (Vintage 2023 vs. Vintage 2024) and different denominators (percent change in raw Hispanic population vs. percent of total state population), which changes rankings. Secondary compilations (TheWorldData, WorldPopulationReview, DataPandas) offer state-level Hispanic counts or 2024/2025 snapshots but are derivative and do not always publish the precise 2020 baseline or consistent methodology required to compute uniform 2020–2025 growth rates ^{[2] [7] [4]}. The Census’s own projection and vintage tables are the authoritative base but the specific 2020–2025 state series isn’t included in the snippet set you provided ^[8].

4. What you can reliably say now, based on the supplied reporting

You can confidently state that Hispanics were a major driver of U.S. population recovery after 2020, that national Hispanic totals rose by several million in 2022–2024 with the population reaching roughly 65–67 million, and that Hispanics accounted for a very large share of recent U.S. growth ^{[1] [2] [3]}. You can also cite historical tendencies: large absolute Hispanic population increases occurred in California and Texas because of their size, while the fastest percentage increases in past decades have often been in states with small Hispanic bases ^{[4] [5]}.

5. How to get the exact 2020–2025 state ranking you asked for

To produce a defensible, state‑by‑state list of Hispanic growth rates from 2020 to 2025 you need either: (a) the U.S. Census Vintage population estimates for each state by Hispanic origin for July 1, 2020 and July 1, 2025 (or 2024/2023 if 2025 is not yet released), or (b) an authoritative secondary that has already computed percent changes for exactly that interval. The search results include the Census program pages and vintage estimates (which is where such a table would come from) but the exact 2020–2025 table is not present among the provided snippets (p2_s4; available sources do not mention a completed 2020–2025 state table).

6. Balanced takeaway and caveats for readers

Expect two consistent patterns: big states (California, Texas, Florida) lead in absolute Hispanic numbers while smaller states can post the largest percentage gains because of low baselines — but be wary of top‑line lists from derivative websites unless they cite specific Census vintage files and a clear method ^{[4] [2]}. If you want, I can pull together a clean ranked list once you provide or authorize retrieval of the Census vintage state estimates for 2020 and 2025 (available sources do not currently include those specific paired state figures).