The city's Hispanic population has benefitted from an influx of immigrants and expanded rapidly in the last nine years. Today, Latinos number close to 236,000. ...

Despite the economic hurt, Hispanics remain a vibrant and significant part of the Las Vegas market. Latinos make up nearly 29 percent of the population in the DMA ...

An area with Hispanic roots dating back to the 1500s, when the first Spanish explorers first came to California, the Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz market has experienced the same strong influx of Hispanic immigrants seen throughout the Golden State ...

An influx of newly arrived Mexican immigrants has added to the Hispanic population in the Bakersfield DMA in the past nine years. It's the 11th largest city in California and 57th largest in the U.S. ...

The number of Latinos in Tucson grew nearly twice as fast - up 32.5 percent to 417,403 versus a gain of 17.8 percent to 1,178,296 for the region's total population. The DMA includes three counties: Pima, Cochise, and Santa Cruz. ...

The West Palm Beach DMA is home to many Mexican immigrants, the fastest-growing population in the market ...

The largest segment of Latinos in the Ft. Myers-Naples DMA is between the ages of 25 and 44 - and they are having kids ...

The Hispanic population in the Colorado-Springs/Pueblo DMA grew 25 percent between 2000 and 2009 to 187,060. Its growth was nearly twice as much as the region's total population ...

The Miami-Fort Lauderdale market is home to a diverse mix of television, radio and print outlets targeting an ever-more diverse population of Latinos from South America and the Caribbean. A severe recession has put a damper on the local economy ...

Despite the impact of the recession, the Phoenix DMA's population grew from 2008 to 2009 - and Latino growth was such that it is now the 7th largest Hispanic DMA in the country, moving ahead of San Antonio ...

Population growth has slowed in the New Mexico market, where unemployment remains below the national average. And while the DMA has lost some Spanish-language media outlets, it has gained some new ones ...

The northern San Joaquin Valley is reeling from the effects of the housing crisis and recession, with some of the highest unemployment and foreclosures rates in the entire state of California ...

The robust growth of the Latino community in the San Francisco DMA slowed dramatically over the last year. But the expansion of the Hispanic population is still projected to outpace that of the market overall between 2009 and 2014. ...

The Sacramento DMA has been one of the hardest hit in California by the housing and economic crisis. Latinos represent 25 percent of the market's total population - up from 20 percent in 2000 ...

While the overall population in the San Diego market has inched downward year-to-year, the Latino population has increased. Spanish-language media serves many of them, although high acculturation levels can be seen across the region ...