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The urban area boundary is supposed to take in all of the territory that is contiguously developed at urban densities, expressed in terms of a threshold number of dwelling units per square mile IIRC. The OMB doesn't always get the boundaries right — were you to look at the Kansas City UA, you would note that urban Lee's Summit, which borders it directly, is not included in it — but it's as good as we can get in most cases.
I disagree with your assumption here. Since the urban area includes core city and suburbs, any territory that is contiguous to the existing UA and densely developed enough belongs, regardless of its demographics. It's the whole, not the sum of the parts, that are being measured here. And FWIW, Malvern isn't all that different demographically or socioeconomically from the rest of the Main Line to its east, so why should it be excluded? OTOH, Doylestowm may actually not be part of the Philadelphia UA, for I believe that not all of the territory between it and Lansdale or Willow Grove is built to a sufficiently high density. (CensusReporter.org is having some Issues, so I can't check to see if my belief is correct.)
Census Reporter is working again now, so I did check. Doylestown is indeed in the urbanized area, with tentacles stretching from the surrounding township to New Hope and Lambertville to the northeast and to Dublin and Plumsteadville in the north.
But there is also a Lee's Summit-like anomaly in our region: Pottstown is its own separate UA, even though it directly abuts part of the Philadelphia UA. And if that's the case, why doesn't Wilmington get the same consideration?
I don't look at Detroit or Minneapolis as more or less nationally diverse than the other personally. The data indicates they are pretty similar. Both are definitely underrated in terms of diversity. I personally get very defensive about Detroit sometimes because that is our homeland away from home (I am Lebanese). My entire family moved from California, Nevada, and Texas to the Detroit area for that reason. Im the only one left in not there!
In the case of Minneapolis, my wife's family is from Thailand and I give my father in law a hard time because he has family there. Ill say things like "I bet you want to move to Minnesota with all your people" and he say "NO! That is Hmong City. Those are not my people".
But in all seriousness if we break down the Arab diversity in Detroit, it is mostly Yemeni, Iraqi, and Lebanese. They are extremely different culturally. If you go to Dearborn for example, its Lebanese. Women can dress as they please, no one gives the side eye to anyone else, and its very welcoming. If you go to Hamtramck, that is Yemeni and Bangladeshi. My mother has personally gotten harassed for going out in workout clothes and not being covered. Then you have the Iraqis in Sterling Heights and they are like the Lebanese. Pretty laid back. These cultures are as different as Ethiopians and Laotians!
They are Chaldeans/Assyrians in Sterling Heights. They don’t identify as Iraqis.
Here is some ancestry data. Ill start with Hispanic ancestries on this post and Ill move on to others later. Again this is by Urban Area. For Mexicans, all over 50,000 listed. For Puerto Ricans, all over 20,000. The rest, all over 10,000. The numbers next to the nationalities are the total in the US.
Nicaraguan - 441,378
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 129,479
Los Angeles: 39,673
San Francisco: 25,930
New York City: 21,906
Washington DC: 17,049
Houston: 11,938
Argentine - 304,627
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 53,452
New York City: 43,779
Los Angeles: 26,459
Washington DC: 11,631
Panamanian - 224,385
New York City: 34,133
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 15,334
Chilean - 182,671
New York City: 25,713
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 20,300
Bolivian - 128,584
Washington DC: 43,415
New York City: 10,773
Costa Rican - 173,375
New York City: 29,317
Los Angeles: 12,688
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 11,290
Uruguayan - 71,985
New York City: 15,517
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 12,038
New York City having more Puerto Ricans* than any other US city doesn't surprise me, but Philadelphia having more than any city in Florida or Texas does.
*Of course, Puerto Ricans being US citizens, they aren't "foreign" or "alien" residents in the continental US.
Edited to add a bit of free association: I'm also not at all surprised that Kansas City has a decent-sized Mexican immigrant community and that they are the single largest Spanish-speaking immigrant community in the city. In the 19th century, the city attracted significant numbers of Mexicans who came to work on the railroads extending from the city; they settled mainly in two neighborhoods, the West Side of Kansas City, MO, and a KCK neighborhood on the south bank of the Kaw that was home to the Santa Fe railroad yards and called Argentine.
I had thought growing up that it had the name because of some connection to that country. I only recently learned that the neighborhood had that name because a silver smelter was located in it in its early years.
Here is some ancestry data. Ill start with Hispanic ancestries on this post and Ill move on to others later. Again this is by Urban Area. For Mexicans, all over 50,000 listed. For Puerto Ricans, all over 20,000. The rest, all over 10,000. The numbers next to the nationalities are the total in the US.
Nicaraguan - 441,378
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 129,479
Los Angeles: 39,673
San Francisco: 25,930
New York City: 21,906
Washington DC: 17,049
Houston: 11,938
Argentine - 304,627
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 53,452
New York City: 43,779
Los Angeles: 26,459
Washington DC: 11,631
Panamanian - 224,385
New York City: 34,133
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 15,334
Chilean - 182,671
New York City: 25,713
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 20,300
Bolivian - 128,584
Washington DC: 43,415
New York City: 10,773
Costa Rican - 173,375
New York City: 29,317
Los Angeles: 12,688
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 11,290
Uruguayan - 71,985
New York City: 15,517
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 12,038
Chicago having almost 3 times more Mexicans than NYC is something I’ll always fail to understand. Also, not even 50k Mexicans in Boston? what about Brazilians?
Chicago having almost 3 times more Mexicans than NYC is something I’ll always fail to understand. Also, not even 50k Mexicans in Boston? what about Brazilians?
Chicago just has a lot more history with Mexico than NYC. People from Mexico have been moving to Chicago for far longer than NYC. Mexicans are for Chicago what Puerto Ricans are for NYC.
Boston has 33,118 people claiming Mexican ancestry so no go there.
New York City having more Puerto Ricans* than any other US city doesn't surprise me, but Philadelphia having more than any city in Florida or Texas does.
*Of course, Puerto Ricans being US citizens, they aren't "foreign" or "alien" residents in the continental US.
So when we look the number of people born in Puerto Rico that live in these urban areas, it is a bit different:
New York City: 287,194
Orlando: 121,774
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 105,724
Philadelphia: 81,769
Tampa: 74,589
Boston: 50,673
Chicago: 49,133
Houston: 30,447
Atlanta: 28,947
Washington DC: 24,998
Dallas/Fort Worth: 23,176
Los Angeles: 17,996
San Antonio: 15,083
San Diego: 10,620
The Mexican community in Boston is about as prominent as I imagine the Dominican one is in San Diego.
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what about Brazilians?
