Demographics Thread - 2019 (California, best, cost, state)

[908Boi]

The Jamaican American population of Atlanta has really blossomed the last 20 years.

Also not surprising but crazy that over 40% of all immigrants to South Florida are Cuban or Haitian.

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

Boston blows Miami our of the water for Dominicans. Like 2 to 1. Even I wouldn’t have guessed that.

Las Vegas is very Filipino.

Dominicans definitely stay in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Also Boston is the only metro where no one immigrant group makes up more than 10% of the population.

Anecdotally I can attest to the fact that there’s a ton of global representation for such a small metro. The list above only covers 40% of our immigrant groups.

Sizable Armenian, Iranian, Somalian, Ugandan, Jamaican, Honduran, Salvadoran, Columbian , Irish, Italian, Ghanaian, Italian, Ethiopian, Russian, Kenyan, Canadian, Vietnamese, Polish, Lebanese, Greek, Liberian, Filipino, Cambodian, Mexican, Barbadian, Guatemalan and Trinidadian populations make up the bulk of the rest the Boston CSA’s 1.36 million immigrants.

But I also meet folks from smaller islands like USVI, St Kitts and Nevis, Guyana, Montserrat, Antigua, Dominica, and Grenada, as well as Belize.

[SouthernBoy205]

I’ve met close to 10 Afro Hondurans over the course of 2 years in Houston. It all makes sense now. I wonder what’s the number of Jamaicans because I’m starting to see more of them. I thought the Mexican percentage would be higher.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

Ok, so here is how the demographics would look if MENA was considered its own ethnic group. Im only going to focus on the larger ones by MSA as of 2019:

New York City/Newark/Jersey City MSA:
White - 43.9% - 8,446,303
Hispanic - 25.0% - 4,808,471
Black - 15.7% - 3,016,880
Asian - 11.4% - 2,192,841
MENA - 1.2% - 228,216

Detroit/Warren/Dearborn MSA:
White - 61.2% - 2,645,884
Black - 21.9% - 946,751
Asian - 4.8% - 205,380
MENA - 4.7% - 201,181
Hispanic - 4.6% - 200,680

Los Angeles/Long Beach/Anaheim MSA:
Hispanic - 45.1% - 5,936,061
White - 28.4% - 3,748,889
Asian - 16.1% - 2,125,243
Black - 6.3% - 829,224
MENA - 0.8% - 108,987

Chicago/Naperville/Elgin MSA:
White - 51.2% - 4,841,199
Hispanic - 22.6% - 2,132,755
Black - 16.1% - 1,521,704
Asian - 6.8% - 649,835
MENA - 1.1% - 101,548

Washington DC/Arlington/Alexandria MSA:
White - 43.4% - 2,725,826
Black - 24.9% - 1,563,337
Hispanic - 16.3% - 1,021,386
Asian - 10.3% - 645, 564
MENA - 1.3% - 81,044

Houston/The Woodlands/Sugar Land MSA:
Hispanic - 38.0% - 2,682,311
White - 34.3% - 2,422,288
Black - 16.8% - 1,190,236
Asian - 7.8% - 550,675
MENA - 0.8% - 58,830

Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington MSA:
White - 44.2% - 3,343,415
Hispanic - 29.3% - 2,219,072
Black - 15.9% - 1,201,835
Asian - 7.3% - 551,059
MENA - 0.7% - 56,419

Boston/Cambridge/Newton MSA:
White - 68.2% - 3,319,565
Hispanic - 11.7% - 567,741
Asian - 8.2% - 400,301
Black - 7.8% - 377,690
MENA - 1.0% - 51,055

San Diego/Carlsbad MSA:
White - 43.3% - 1,448,199
Hispanic - 34.1% - 1,140,033
Asian - 11.8% - 394,644
Black - 4.7% - 156,423
MENA - 1.5% - 47,035

San Francisco/Oakland/Berkley MSA:
White - 37.6% - 1,781,547
Asian - 26.8% - 1,269,263
Hispanic - 14.3% - 1,033,922
Black - 7.2% - 341,500
MENA - 1.0% - 45,701

Miami/Fort Lauderdale/Pompano Beach MSA:
Hispanic - 46.1% - 2,842,930
White - 28.9% - 1,778,786
Black - 20.0% - 1,233,921
Asian - 2.5% - 152,893
MENA - 0.6% - 38,241

Philadelphia/Camden/Wilmington MSA:
White - 60.4% - 3,684,517
Black - 20.3% - 1,241,680
Hispanic - 9.9% - 601,242
Asian - 6.1% - 372,629
MENA - 0.6% - 35,469

Phoenix/Mesa/Scottsdale MSA:
White - 53.8% - 2,662,030
Hispanic - 31.3% - 1,551,313
Black - 5.4 - 268,757
Asian - 3.9% - 193,178
MENA - 0.7% - 34,557

Riverside/San Bernadino/Ontario MSA:
Hispanic - 52.9% - 2,422,840
White - 30.0% - 1,397,321
Asian - 6.9% - 322,238
Black - 6.9% - 320,161
MENA - 0.7% - 31,490

Cleveland/Elyria MSA:
White - 67.8% - 1,390,178
Black - 19.4% - 397,688
Hispanic - 6.2% - 125,987
Asian - 2.5 - 50,763
MENA - 1.5% - 28,879

Atlanta/Sandy Springs/Alpharetta MSA:
White - 45.4% - 2,733,698
Black - 34.2% - 2,057,902
Hispanic - 11.0% - 661,048
Asian - 6.1% - 364,660
MENA - 0.5% - 28,877

Nashville/Davidson/Mufreesboro MSA:
White - 70.4% - 1,353,711
Black - 15.1% - 292,433
Hispanic - 7.6% - 146,971
Asian - 2.9% - 56,774
MENA - 1.0% - 26,365

So based on Percentage, here is the ordering for MENA population as of 2019 by MSA:
Detroit - 4.7%
San Diego - 1.5%
Cleveland - 1.5%
Washington DC - 1.3%
New York City - 1.2%
Chicago - 1.1%
Boston - 1.0%
San Francisco - 1.0%
Nashville - 1.0%
Los Angeles - 0.8%
Houston - 0.8%
Dallas/Fort Worth - 0.7%
Phoenix - 0.7%
Riverside - 0.7%
Miami/Fort Lauderdale - 0.6%
Philadelphia - 0.6%
Atlanta - 0.5%

Theres a reason we call Detroit our homeland in the US.

Just like MENA deserves to be its own category, so does South Asian (Indian, Pakistan, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi etc)

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

I’ve met close to 10 Afro Hondurans over the course of 2 years in Houston. It all makes sense now. I wonder what’s the number of Jamaicans because I’m starting to see more of them. I thought the Mexican percentage would be higher.

There are 10,266 Jamaicans and 34,581 Black Hispanics in the Houston area.

[BostonBornMassMade]

I don’t get how Hartford and Springfield arent one CSA...but still I’d be interested in Hartford’s CSA numbers.

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

I don’t get how Hartford and Springfield arent one CSA...but still I’d be interested in Hartford’s CSA numbers.

Here you go!

Hartford CSA:
Total Immigrant Population - 184,327
Jamaica - 20,993
India - 19,721
Dominican Republic - 13,221
Poland - 12,091
China - 12,015

[BostonBornMassMade]

Do you have numbers for those born in Puerto Rico ?

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

Do you have numbers for those born in Puerto Rico ?

So Puerto Rico isnt a different country so they dont track it that way, but I have a couple of numbers that may give you some insight.

Puerto Ricans population in Hartford CSA: 134,739
Hispanics born outside CT and MA but not foreign born: 36,932 (this would include those born in PR but other states as well).

[Boston Shudra]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

Boston/Worcester/Providence CSA:
Dominican Republic - 9.8% - 131,852
China - 8.9% - 119,463
Brazil - 6.8% - 91,986
Cape Verde - 6.8% - 90,958
Haiti - 4.7% - 63,261
Portugal - 4.7% - 62,685

Huh. Were there more new Lusophone immigrants than Hispanophone immigrants to Boston last year? Or do multiple smaller groups from other south/central American countries push the Spanish-speakers over Portuguese-speakers?