Chula Vista, the second-largest city in San Diego County, is a remarkably vibrant minority-dominant city as far as American cities go. Its population of 270,000 is 59.8% Hispanic, 85% of whom are Mexican Americans. The median family income in 2019 was $81,727 and the poverty rate just 9.6% — half of California’s 18.2%.
By contrast, McCallen, Texas, with 143,000 people of which 84.8% are Hispanic had a median family income of just $46,804 with a whopping 23% in poverty — almost three times that of Chula Vista.
