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What is most fascinating to me is how different the foreign born black growth patterns are between Dallas and Houston. Houston is very West Africa dominated but also has a Caribbean component. Dallas has no Caribbean component, but has a much more diverse African population and African growth component.
Below is the same data among Hispanics. Foreign born Hispanic growth from 2010-2020.
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 325,304
Houston: 173,041
New York City: 149,396
Washington DC: 90,191
Orlando: 78,555
Dallas/Fort Worth: 76,297
Boston: 66,278
Tampa: 60,857
Charlotte: 33,272
Philadelphia: 28,856
San Antonio: 28,115
Austin: 24,581
Las Vegas: 24,252
Fort Myers: 22,637
Seattle/Tacoma: 21,060
Atlanta: 18,215
Jacksonville: 16,320
Oxnard: 15,463
Riverside/San Bernardino: 13,699
McAllen: 12,689
New Orleans: 11,127
Providence: 10,422
Nashville: 9,403
Baltimore: 9,238
Oklahoma City: 8,096
Hartford: 6,701
Richmond: 6,693
Virginia Beach: 6,674
Indianapolis: 6,537
Detroit: 6,115
Salt Lake City: 5,721
Cincinnati: 5,381
Grand Rapids: 4,901
Kansas City: 3,749
Minneapolis/St. Paul: 3,569
Denver: 3,432
Cleveland: 3,180
San Diego: 2,628
Columbus: 2,429
Raleigh: 1,433
Sacramento: 377
Portland: -1,587
Fresno: -3,554
Brownsville: -3,984
Tucson: -4,133
Corpus Christi: -4,849
Phoenix: -4,917
El Paso: -7,290
San Francisco: -13,515
San Jose: -16,452
Chicago: -48,737
Los Angeles: -226,082
I think there are two trends at play here:
1) Metro areas that depend overwhelmingly on Mexican immigration for their foreign born Hispanic communities are losing due to net negative migration to there. The flip side is that places that are magnets for Central Americans or Caribbean Hispanics are growing massively.
Below is the same data among Hispanics. Foreign born Hispanic growth from 2010-2020.
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 325,304
Houston: 173,041
New York City: 149,396
Washington DC: 90,191
Orlando: 78,555
Dallas/Fort Worth: 76,297
Boston: 66,278
Tampa: 60,857
Charlotte: 33,272
Philadelphia: 28,856
San Antonio: 28,115
Austin: 24,581
Las Vegas: 24,252
Fort Myers: 22,637
Seattle/Tacoma: 21,060
Atlanta: 18,215
Jacksonville: 16,320
Oxnard: 15,463
Riverside/San Bernardino: 13,699
McAllen: 12,689
New Orleans: 11,127
Providence: 10,422
Nashville: 9,403
Baltimore: 9,238
Oklahoma City: 8,096
Hartford: 6,701
Richmond: 6,693
Virginia Beach: 6,674
Indianapolis: 6,537
Detroit: 6,115
Salt Lake City: 5,721
Cincinnati: 5,381
Grand Rapids: 4,901
Kansas City: 3,749
Minneapolis/St. Paul: 3,569
Denver: 3,432
Cleveland: 3,180
San Diego: 2,628
Columbus: 2,429
Raleigh: 1,433
Sacramento: 377
Portland: -1,587
Fresno: -3,554
Brownsville: -3,984
Tucson: -4,133
Corpus Christi: -4,849
Phoenix: -4,917
El Paso: -7,290
San Francisco: -13,515
San Jose: -16,452
Chicago: -48,737
Los Angeles: -226,082
I think there are two trends at play here:
1) Metro areas that depend overwhelmingly on Mexican immigration for their foreign born Hispanic communities are losing due to net negative migration to there. The flip side is that places that are magnets for Central Americans or Caribbean Hispanics are growing massively.
2) High costs of living are effecting migration.
It’s interesting because Seattle seems to be a counterexample to your #2 statement. Seems to be an outlier in terms of it having fairly moderate Hispanic growth, being a very expensive place to live and also overwhelmingly Mexican in terms of Latin American immigration. I wonder what the explanation is.
Perhaps it’s sort of a sub-trend of the overall massive migration of Californians to Western Washington which is still ongoing. Still, it doesn’t seem to fully explain that.
It’s interesting because Seattle seems to be a counterexample to your #2 statement. Seems to be an outlier in terms of it having fairly moderate Hispanic growth, being a very expensive place to live
Boston’s also high on the list despite COL. Granted it does meet his first point about being dominated by Caribbean and Central American immigrants more so than Mexicans.
It's interesting that you don't see as much African immigration to Florida. Texas is just killing it with African immigration. And I'm surprised that Haitian immigration hasn't eclipsed Jamaica in NY yet. Also, as I've said a clear Southern trend for Jamaicans
Can you do south Asian / specifically Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, Nepali and Indian?
I can. Just give me time.
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Originally Posted by Bluefox
It’s interesting because Seattle seems to be a counterexample to your #2 statement. Seems to be an outlier in terms of it having fairly moderate Hispanic growth, being a very expensive place to live and also overwhelmingly Mexican in terms of Latin American immigration. I wonder what the explanation is.
Perhaps it’s sort of a sub-trend of the overall massive migration of Californians to Western Washington which is still ongoing. Still, it doesn’t seem to fully explain that.
There are going to be some trends that mirror domestic migration. Seattle isnt like Austin or Dallas, but it is somewhat like Houston where there is still some domestic in-migration but its very reliant on international immigration. It is hard to compartmentalize everything into one basket, but I do think the overall trends are that metro areas that are very high COL or rely heavily on Mexican immigration for Hispanic immigration are hit heaviest. It explains the drop in Los Angeles and Chicago. It also explains the difference between Dallas and Houston. Both Dallas and Houston have similar sized Mexican communities but Dallas is not really a magnet for Central Americans (outside Salvadorans) or Caribbean Hispanics. However, Houston very much is.
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Originally Posted by Boston Shudra
Boston’s also high on the list despite COL. Granted it does meet his first point about being dominated by Caribbean and Central American immigrants more so than Mexicans.
Boston is especially dominated by Dominicans however Guatemala shows up strong for Boston too. Ill do a breakdown in a bit.
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