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Yea, the Great Plains cities have a significant Hispanic presence, mainly Mexicans and Central Americans. Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Wichita, Omaha, St Louis, Des Moines, Minneapolis etc all range from 5-25% Hispanic. Neighboring areas west of the Great Plains (Mountain West) and south of it (Texas), is even more Hispanic/Mexican obviously.
The Great Lakes cities have large Hispanic populations too, but they are less solidly Mexican and have a significant Caribbean imprint. Cleveland, for example, is probably the most Puerto Rican major city (percentage wise) outside Florida and the Northeast. Nearby areas in the interior Northeast are also predominantly PR in the Hispanic populations, as would be expected. Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Columbus are also mainly Mexican/Puerto Rican dominant. And NW Indiana, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Green Bay moreso Mexican but some PRs and central Americans. Louisville also has an emerging Cuban population.
Lansing has a good sized Mexican population on its North Side as well.
Here is the Hispanic breakdown among the larger metro areas on the Midwest (Hispanic populations over 100,000). Numbers are from 2020. Largest 5 groups listed.
Here is the problem: the census didnt measure Hispanic ethnicity. Because of that, we have to use the ACS numbers if were going to look at specific ethnicities because they measure them. Because of Covid, the Census didnt. If we just look at Hispanic numbers total, we can leave it at the Census numbers. If we want to dig further, we have to do with ACS.
Here is the problem: the census didnt measure Hispanic ethnicity. Because of that, we have to use the ACS numbers if were going to look at specific ethnicities because they measure them. Because of Covid, the Census didnt. If we just look at Hispanic numbers total, we can leave it at the Census numbers. If we want to dig further, we have to do with ACS.
See link below - there are plans to release more detailed data on race and ethnic groups from the 2020 census at a TBD future date. Yes, until this data comes out the ACS is the best resource.
Here is the Hispanic breakdown among the larger metro areas on the Midwest (Hispanic populations over 100,000). Numbers are from 2020. Largest 5 groups listed.
Good break down. I will do the same, moreso by specific Hispanic ethnic group.
ACS 1yr estimate 2019
Populations of each major (over 1 million nationwide) Hispanic group in metropolitan area and percentage made up of total metro population, not of Hispanic population. Metropolitan areas in the census defined Midwest
Mexican
Chicago — 1,675,217 (17.1%)
Kansas City — 142,953 (7.0%)
Minneapolis —139,830 (4.8%)
Detroit — 132,215 (3.1%)
Milwaukee — 116,629 (7.4%)
Puerto Rican
Chicago — 217,672 (2.2%)
Cleveland — 74,218 (3.6%)
Milwaukee — 40,838 (2.6%)
Detroit — 24,478 (0.6%)
Columbus — 14,211 (0.7%)
Cuban
Chicago — 20,499 (0.2%)
Detroit — 5,053 (0.1%)
Minneapolis — 4,291 (0.1%)
St Louis — 3,528 (0.1%)
Cleveland — 2,578 (0.1%)
Salvadoran
Chicago — 21,355 (0.2%)
Minneapolis — 8,341 (0.2%)
Columbus — 5,423 (0.3%)
Kansas City — 5,164 (0.2%)
Detroit — 4,738 (0.1%)
Dominican
Chicago — 7,864 (0.0%)
Columbus — 4,183 (0.3%)
Cleveland — 2,778 (0.1%)
Detroit — 2,715 (0.0%)
Milwaukee 1,919 (0.1%)
Guatemalan
Chicago — 44,349 (0.4%)
Kansas City — 6,414 (0.3%)
Minneapolis — 4,950 (0.3%)
Omaha — 4,268 (0.2%)
St Louis — 3,624 (0.1%)
Here is the Hispanic breakdown among the larger metro areas on the Midwest (Hispanic populations over 100,000). Numbers are from 2020. Largest 5 groups listed.
Good stuff. Interesting to me that Puerto Ricans "only" make up 58 percent of the Cleveland metro's Latino/Hispanic population. It's still the most Puerto Rican metro, percent wise, outside the Northeast and Florida, but it's not nearly as PR dominated as it was say 20 years ago. That's something that has been noticeable on ground level, even though the PR community continues to grow (especially in terms of total numbers) as well.
It wouldn't surprise me to see that percentage go down further once the actual census breakdowns are released because it seems like there is a growing Dominican population especially in the near westside neighborhoods that have long been the epicenter of the Puerto Rican community. I could see the Dominican population being closer to 5,000, with estimates assuming they are Puerto Rican.
Same probably holds true with Mexican (and this is probably across the board) and those numbers being a little lower and the Central American ones being higher. I know there is a fairly large historical Mexican presence in Lorain (though very much overshadowed by Lorain's Puerto Rican population) and Painesville has been a magnet for Mexican's the past 20 years (Painesville is now, I believe, Ohio's most Latino/Hispanic city by percent), but it seems like there are more Central Americans (at least in Cleveland/Cuyahoga) than Mexicans.
Overall, that top five for Cleveland probably is about right, though, I would guess the Puerto Rican and Mexican number might be a little smaller and the Dominican and Salvadoran are a little larger. Cubans, no clue, but I know there has been a small community on the westside for at least 20-plus years. I did commercial roofing in the late 90s and one of the factories we did was a small company that chromed plastics (think it was mainly the plastic chrome hubcaps that you see at Wal-Mart). Anyway, there was probably 30-40 people working on the line at that place and I assumed they were all Puerto Rican (and they probably also assumed I was Puerto Rican, lol) but I would eat my lunch in the break room and got to know a couple of the guys and they said that almost everybody who works there is Cuban.
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Seymour Indiana is a mid sized industrial town midway between Louisville and Indianapolis. Hispanic population went from nearly zero 20 years ago to 25% in 2020. There are lots of factory jobs and Indiana can no longer pull thousands of workers from Appalachia so Hispanics (seem to be Mexican heritage but from CA and IL mostly) now supply area labor needs. Across from Louisville KY Clarksville is becoming heavily Hispanic, a mix of Mexican and Cuban.
I am Cuban living in Minneapolis. Most the Hispanics in the Cities are Mexican, with West St. Paul having the highest concentration. However, there's a good amount of Puerto Ricans and even Cubans down here.
Have you been to Victor's? I really enjoyed my one visit. Would be curious to hear an actual Cuban's take though.
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