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New York and Houston are the only ones in the top 8 for every category in the last decade. They seem most week rounded.
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Ill break down the numbers further to see. I can break down by percentage.
I honestly expected places like Houston, DC, and NYC to have the numbers they did. Boston punches way above its weight here and that was actually the biggest surprise.
Ill break down the numbers further to see. I can break down by percentage.
I honestly expected places like Houston, DC, and NYC to have the numbers they did. Boston punches way above its weight here and that was actually the biggest surprise.
I'd imagine that's probably the colleges and universities that draw in increasingly international populations, no?
New York and Houston are the only ones in the top 8 for every category in the last decade. They seem most week rounded.
If you eliminate Mexico and look at the top 10 Boston enters the picture.
I always hear its just Mexicans for Houston, but that's old. Looks like Houston gets more from central America and Asia than Mexico. For Caribbean people it's #1 west of the Mississippi. I'm surprised that it got more than Atlanta. It's#1 for central Americans, it got the most South Americans outside NY and Florida. It's 3rd for other countries after NY and DC.
It seems like it was the most well rounded metro last decade after New York.
Lake Charles Casinos, Texas Medical Center, and Galveston Cruise Port are partly responsible for the boost of Houston’s Caribbean and Filipino populations. Which Lake Charles isn’t in Houston MSA, the companies that employ and send them there are mostly centered in Houston. I don’t know if this is Houston’s biggest driver for these demographics but it is one of the bigger ones.
Tech draws from very specific places. Mostly India and China.
This is true but it should also be noted it’s not as skewed as it used to be. At one point, it seemed tech was exclusive to draw people from the Indias, Koreas, etc. Today, it’s still heavily skewed that was but not seemingly to the last percentage points like it used to be.
I'd imagine that's probably the colleges and universities that draw in increasingly international populations, no?
No, not really- it's the gateway cities and other satellite cities and their chain migration patterns. The communities with the highest shares of foreign-born people certainly aren't where the elite colleges are. So then add to that the tech, and then the colleges.
Some of our top countries are Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cape Verde, Brazil, and Vietnam not exactly tech boom places or huge importers of college students. China is at the top but after that, the bulk of the immigration isn't usually associated with tech and colleges. India and the UK are exceptions, but UK could certainly be for reasons outside of Tech or College, I knew a few kids from the UK or of British descent when I was growing up in Boston- there's always been a tie there.
Boston - 11 Countries
China: 105,200 Dominican Republic: 81,150
India: 64,240 Brazil: 55,290
Haiti: 54,293
El Salvador: 37,814
Vietnam: 25,257
Cabo Verde: 24,843
Guatemala: 23,390
Colombia: 20,557
United Kingdom: 20,397
After that its Canada, Jamaica, and Ireland. And not pictured here is Puerto Rico a very sizable group in the Boston area but not "foreign-born". Would likely be around India's #
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Here were the increases and decreases in immigration patterns from 2000-2010 vs. 2010-2020. Im only doing the bigger ones on this. Some of them are just too small and negligible to be worth the time.
Change in European Immigration 2000-2010 vs. 2010-2020
Los Angeles: 14,799
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 12,695
Houston: 11,027
San Francisco: 10,005
San Jose: 7,628
Boston: 6,165
Austin: 3,109
Dallas/Fort Worth: 3,012
Washington DC: 1,810
Change in Asian Immigration 2000-2010 vs. 2010-2020
Seattle/Tacoma: 49,106
San Jose: 43,958
Dallas/Fort Worth: 41,565
Boston: 37,694
Detroit: 35,611
Houston: 33,894
Chicago: 23,979
Atlanta: 22,298
Phoenix: 21,497
New York City: 19,451
Charlotte: 18,205
Austin: 17,186
Sacramento: 14,109
Philadelphia: 10,951
Portland, OR: 10,544
Minneapolis/St. Paul: 9,820
San Diego: 9,360
San Antonio: 8,785
Tampa: 8,654
Denver: 7,056
San Francisco: 7,170
Orlando: 5,434
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 3,901
Riverside/San Bernardino: 1,093
Las Vegas: -2,199
Washington DC: -2,366
Los Angeles: -9,194
Change in Caribbean Immigration 2000-2010 vs. 2010-2020
Houston: 10,446
Boston: 4,393
Las Vegas: 4,356
Atlanta: 3,841
Austin: 3,012
Orlando: 2,755
Dallas/Fort Worth: 2,204
Tampa: 1,825
Philadelphia: -1,448
Washington DC: -3,310
New York City: -17,416
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: -18,177
Change in Mexican Immigration 2000-2010 vs. 2010-2020
Detroit: 1,195
Boston: 177
Baltimore: -2,746
Orlando: -4,979
Tampa: -7,243
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: -9,265
Philadelphia: -10,446
Minneapolis/St. Paul: -12,478
Washington DC: -12,631
Charlotte: -13,475
Portland, OR: -15,945
San Antonio: -18,757
Sacramento: -20,601
San Jose: -23,378
Seattle/Tacoma: -25,953
Austin: -26,324
Denver: -27,690
Atlanta: -37,984
San Diego: -40,293
San Francisco: -41,212
Phoenix: -49,479
New York City: -66,157
Riverside/San Bernardino: -82,890
Houston: -89,171
Dallas/Fort Worth: -96,167
Chicago: -110,708
Los Angeles: -222,592
Change in Central American Immigration 2000-2010 vs. 2010-2020
Houston: 16,529
Charlotte: 6,678
Dallas/Fort Worth: 1,975
Atlanta: 1,548
Philadelphia: -1,283
San Jose: -2,245
Phoenix: -2,461
Chicago: -3,012
Boston: -3,394
Las Vegas: -3,527
Baltimore: -4,403
Riverside/San Bernardino: -5,032
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: -8,929
San Francisco: -9,049
Washington DC: -26,000
New York City: -31,242
Los Angeles: -51,186
Change in South American Immigration 2000-2010 vs. 2010-2020
Orlando: 26,155
Houston: 14,138
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 11,365
Boston: 5,010
San Francisco: 1,921
Dallas/Fort Worth: 1,365
Seattle/Tacoma: 1,300
Chicago: -292
Tampa: -817
Riverside/San Bernardino: -2,527
Los Angeles: -3,177
Philadelphia: -3,314
Atlanta: -3,671
Washington DC: -13,677
New York City: -74,515
Change in Other Countries (Africa, Canada, Oceana) Immigration 2000-2010 vs. 2010-2020
Houston: 22,436
Dallas/Fort Worth: 15,198
New York City: 11,082
Los Angeles: 10,070
Phoenix: 7,601
Chicago: 4,793
San Francisco: 4,752
Tampa: 4,730
Seattle/Tacoma: 4,495
San Jose: 4,252
Riverside/San Bernardino: 4,160
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 4,159
Denver: 3,763
Detroit: 2,449
Baltimore: 2,279
Boston: 1,843
Charlotte: 1,288
Atlanta: 1,149
Philadelphia: -2,090
Minneapolis/St. Paul: -2,222
Washington DC: -4,256
New York and Houston are the only ones in the top 8 for every category in the last decade. They seem most week rounded.
If you eliminate Mexico and look at the top 10 Boston enters the picture.
I always hear its just Mexicans for Houston, but that's old. Looks like Houston gets more from central America and Asia than Mexico. For Caribbean people it's #1 west of the Mississippi. I'm surprised that it got more than Atlanta. It's#1 for central Americans, it got the most South Americans outside NY and Florida. It's 3rd for other countries after NY and DC.
It seems like it was the most well rounded metro last decade after New York.
I found that Caribbean pop interesting as well but I also felt how much is that immediately Cuban. Houston does fat better than most before outside Florida and NYC with Cubans.
I found that Caribbean pop interesting as well but I also felt how much is that immediately Cuban. Houston does fat better than most before outside Florida and NYC with Cubans.
For the Caribbean numbers, Houston's are almost entirely Cuban and Atlanta's are almost entirely Jamaican.
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