East Boston population is 38,413.

49.7% are white; 3.1% are African-American; 39.0% are Hispanic; 4.0% are Asian-Pacific Islander; and 2.9% are other two or more races. Since 1980, the population has gone from 4% minority to nearly 40% Latino, with the arrival of immigrants from Columbia, El Salvador, and other parts of Central America and the Caribbean.