Seattle MSA Reported Top 10 Ancestries - US Census (homes, versus)

[CrazyDonkey]

2016 Top 10 MSAs per Ancestry Reported

National Rank. "First Ethnicity Reported" # of Reports

8. Chinese 102,154
10. Filipino 70,876
2. Norwegian 65,344
7. Vietnamese 58,352
5. Korean 52,067
5. Japanese 28,293
3. Swedish 27,314
3. Ukrainian 25,651
10. Scottish 24,805
9. Russian 21,507
3. Cambodian 17,497
2. Ethiopian 17,483
6. Dutch 15,427
8. British 13,085
3. Somalian 11,365
6. Romanian 9,159
6. Danish 7,943
5. Laotian 7,862
7. Canadian 7,424
9. Iranian 6,883
6. Finnish 5,043
9. Thai 4,388
6. Swiss 3,883
9. Seattle 3,541
6. Indonesian 3,219
6. Croatian 3,110
8. Iraqi 2,933
8. Bulgarian 2,212
10. Israeli 1,470
10. Kenyan 1,379
4. Bhutanese 1,252
6. Australian 1,182
7. Latvian 1,136
1. Icelander 1,118
10. Sudanese 960
5. Mongolian 937
3. New Zealander 486
10. Malaysian 443
7. Estonian 362
8. Ugandan 344
5. Maltese 261
6. Luxemburger 244

[Neerwhal]

This is interesting. It would be equally interesting if you ranked by % of total. Smaller cities like St. Paul and Portland will never be top by # of Norwegians but they may have a higher % of Norwegians.

I believe Seattle would be much higher for German, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese and Korean as a % of the total, versus absolute #.

Also, does this list suggest that Seattle has the 9th largest number of Seattlites in the US? How does that work? Surely we are not exporting that many people?

[CrazyDonkey]

Originally Posted by Neerwhal

Also, does this list suggest that Seattle has the 9th largest number of Seattlites in the US? How does that work? Surely we are not exporting that many people?

Oops, should be:

9. Turkish 3,541

[homesinseattle]

Very interesting.

[CrazyDonkey]

Highest National Rankings (1-5):

1. Icelander 1,118
2. Norwegian 65,344
2. Ethiopian 17,483
3. Swedish 27,314
3. Ukrainian 25,651
3. Cambodian 17,497
3. Somalian 11,365
3. New Zealander 486
4. Bhutanese 1,252
5. Korean 52,067
5. Japanese 28,293
5. Laotian 7,862
5. Mongolian 937
5. Maltese 261

[homesinseattle]

One thing seems skewed. I am very sure we have a lot more Ethiopians than that, approaching 80,000. This is families or individuals?

[CrazyDonkey]

Originally Posted by homesinseattle

One thing seems skewed. I am very sure we have a lot more Ethiopians than that, approaching 80,000. This is families or individuals?

U.S. Census Data, foreign-born only. To me the numbers are less interesting than the rankings, in that they show to where different ethnicities are migrating.

[dozener]

You're missing Indians. There's at least 50,000 in the MSA easily

[ctr88]

It would be interesting to put average age to those numbers. The people with Norwegian, Swedish, British, Scottish, etc... are going to skew a LOT older. Non-hispanic whites will fall below 50% of the total US population in less then 25 yrs (and a lot of those remaining will be old folks). The average age of non-hispanic white person in the US is like 57 yrs old and the average Asian 27 and average Mexican 10.

Canadian is an ethnicity??? lol.

Did I miss hispanic ethncities?...Mexican and other central american countries should be pretty large numbers. Irish has to be much higher. I think I read Irish & German are the two largest European ancestries in the U.S.

[CrazyDonkey]

Originally Posted by dozener

You're missing Indians. There's at least 50,000 in the MSA easily

They're likely in the Top Three for Seattle, but Seattle is not ranked in the Top Ten for Indian immigrants (at least for the data cited):

Indian
1. New York: 619,763 people
2. Chicago: 204,818
3. San Francisco: 167,315
4. San Jose: 156,198
5. Washington DC: 150,591
6. Dallas: 140,197
7. Los Angeles: 138,791
8. Houston: 123,598
9. Philadelphia: 108,543
10. Atlanta: 102,488