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It's not great at all, but it does seem to reflect the differences between the communities in Houston and DFW.
But how strange that three Texas cities all have the same percentage?
Right. Like he just totally misread that I was referring to the RAW GROWTH. And with Houston growing more in raw numbers, the percentage between it and DFW is going to widen.
That's true, Houston has long had a better reputation among younger upwardly mobile black professionals than LA and DFW. Chicago is increasingly closing that gap - lots of that demographic moving there these days as well.
With that said, I assume most of that growth was pre-2015. Not sure what economically would be driving them to Houston nowadays...
Many blacks (although a nice amount is) aren’t in oil and gas here compared to other industries. You’ll have way more Africans in oil and gas than American blacks. So whatever was attracting blacks here in the first place is still attracting them here because alotta us aren’t in oil and gas.
And do note that pre- and post-2015, Houston was/is growing well above 100,000 people.
34.3% - Washington DC
25.5% - Baltimore
25.0% - New York
24.7% - Boston
22.4% - Chicago
22.3% - Providence
21.6% - Pittsburgh
21.3% - Minneapolis/St. Paul
20.7% - Philadelphia
20.6% - Columbus
20.6% - Kansas City
20.3% - Grand Rapids
19.7% - Hartford
19.4% - St. Louis
17.7% - Detroit
17.7% - Indianapolis
15.8% - Cincinnati
15.5% - Buffalo
15.3% - Cleveland
14.9% - Milwaukee
13.8% - Rochester
Northeastern and Midwestern MSAs (growth)
+126,889 - New York
+79,537 - Washington DC
+42,048 - Philadelphia
+35,689 - Chicago
+32,901 - Baltimore
+15,103 - Boston
+12,042 - Detroit
+10,893 - St. Louis
+10,464 - Columbus
+9,065 - Minneapolis/St. Paul
+8,098 - Pittsburgh
+8,037 - Cleveland
+7,143 - Indianapolis
+5,440 - Kansas City
+5,012 - Milwaukee
+4,509 - Providence
+3,399 - Grand Rapids
+3,135 - Hartford
+1,383 - Cincinnati
+1,276 - Buffalo
+1,136 - Rochester
In terms of percentage, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Providence are better than expected, and Philadelphia, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Indianapolis, Hartford and Rochester are worse than I expected. In terms of growth, Detroit, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Cleveland are better than I expected, and Boston, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Hartford and Cincinnati are worse than I expected.
DC has always been DC, due to the specialized nature of the economy.
Personally, I think the Raleigh/Durham area is severely underrated here. It holds its own against the major metros and in a big way.
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