Demographics Thread - 2021 (downtown, development, living, best)

[mraza9]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

That is exactly what that means yes. It means only 79 out of 233K Indians in the city were born in India.

Cheers. Makes sense given the Indian community here is quite old in comparison with other parts of the country.

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by mraza9

Cheers. Makes sense given the Indian community here is quite old in comparison with other parts of the country.

Most new arrivals from India seem to favor New Jersey.

[Dave Coe]

Originally Posted by mraza9

Cheers. Makes sense given the Indian community here is quite old in comparison with other parts of the country.

Indian immigrants are overrepresented in the suburbs, but I think that chart was just New York City, so Bangladeshi are more urban.

[Dave Coe]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

Most new arrivals from India seem to favor New Jersey.

Aren't most NJ Indians from Gujarat? NYC's, specifically Queens, Indian population is more Sikh from the Punjab. Not sure about Manhattan.

[mraza9]

Originally Posted by Dave Coe

Indian immigrants are overrepresented in the suburbs, but I think that chart was just New York City, so Bangladeshi are more urban.

Is there any other major city where the number one South Asian demographics belongs to a non-Indian community? Quite the impressive anomaly.

[yadigggski]

This thread is really interesting. Never fails to amaze me how different San Antonio and Austin are despite only being 45-ish mins apart with a lead foot driver.

I wish that the city of SA didn't annex all the suburbs and was more like DFW. If I can figure it out I might try and break down the ZIP codes north of 410 and make it separate just to see what it looks like. If you go into an HEB in the Stone Oak area or around UTSA it's very diverse. The inner west/south side are so hispanic dominant that it really feels like a tale of 2 cities when you're out and about.

[yadigggski]

Ended up doing the different sides of San Antonio from the data on this site (not sure what census it uses)

ZIP Codes north of 410 between Potranco and I-10.

Total Pop: 1,205,698
White: 52.5%
Hispanic: 36.1%
Black: 5.9%
Asian: 3.4%

South/West side inside of 410

Total Pop: 476,266
Hispanic: 88.5%
White: 8.4%
Black: 2.0%
Asian: 0.3%

East side inside 410

Total Pop: 115,729
Hispanic: 61.4%
Black: 25.2%
White: 11.4%
Asian: 0.4%

[siula]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

I have gotten a couple of requests for immigrant population by city proper information so it's below. Listed are total immigrant populations as well as all immigrant groups with more than .05% of the total city population. As usual, 2021 ACS 5-Year estimates are the source. In one of my next posts, I'll be looking at diverse suburbs in major metro areas.


New York City - 16 Countries
Dominican Republic: 425,587
China: 345,607
Jamaica: 171,587
Mexico: 158,726
Guyana: 141,761
Ecuador: 128,112
Bangladesh: 99,120
Haiti: 82,547
India: 79,528
Trinidad and Tobago: 77,717
Colombia: 72,680
Russia: 65,342
Poland: 62,316
Philippines: 57,382
Korea: 54,458
Poland: 44,240

Poland twice?

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by siula

Poland twice?

My bad. 2nd one is supposed to be Pakistan.

[BostonBornMassMade]

This really drives home my point about why the city and metro shouldn't be conflated.

I remember in a DC vs Boston thread it as which city is more cosmopolitan. I said "Boston, easily."

I said DC was a more cosmopolitan metro, for sure. Having lived in Boston and DC it was so so obvious to me that Boston as a city was much more cosmopolitan. But Boston's suburbs had no scalable comparison to Montgomery County or Even Howard County. You really didn't see the type of diversity you see in NoVa over broad sections of Eastern MA. But you really don't have the diversity of a Dorchester or even a Mission Hill Hyde Park in DC city limits. It straight-up does not exist.


These things/distinction DO matter.