Suburban Internationalism (population, metropolitan, Atlanta, Los Angeles)

[bballniket]

There are many threads on this site ranking metro areas by foreign-born population share. However, I have not seen any ranking metro areas by suburban foreign-born share. I have thus created this thread to fill that void. I'm choosing the "Urban Area" (as defined by the Census Bureau) as the statistical entity to be representative of a metropolitan area, as Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and Combined Statistical Areas (CSAs) include too many exurbs whose residents aren't readily visually apparent on a daily basis in a given principle city's streets.

The following percentages of foreign born residents in Urban Area SUBURBS were calculated as follows:

Suburban Foreign born share= (# of foreign born residents in urban area - # of foreign born residents in central city) / (# of total residents in urban area- # of total residents in central city)

Here are the rankings (rounded to the nearest tenth of a percentage point):

1. Miami: 35.9%
2. Los Angeles: 33.6%
3. San Francisco: 31.5%
4. DC: 24.8%
5. NYC: 21.9%
6. Houston: 21.1%
7. Dallas: 18.5%
8. Chicago: 17.2%
9. Atlanta: 16.4%
10. Boston: 15.8%
11. Detroit: 10.8%
12. Philadelphia: 8.9%

Things to Note:
1. Oakland is included as part of SF's suburban region, as is Richmond.
2. Arlington and Alexandria are included as part of DC's suburban region.
3. Every City in the NYC metro area outside of NYC itself is considered to be suburban for the purposes of these calculations; this includes Newark and Jersey City.
4. Though large portions of Sunbelt cities such as Houston, Atlanta, and Dallas are heavily suburban in development, the entire cities are considered central cities for the purposes of these calculations

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