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If anyone has growth data I would be interested to look at it. Especially knowing how dominant Texas and Florida have been in the growth sector over the years, I wonder if this at all translates to the Latino population. For example I’ve heard Chicagos is growing really fast, but is it as fast numerically as Houston? Is it a faster percentage growth than Houston? What about cities that are “saturated” with Latinos. Do they still have strong growth? How much do Latino immigrants and just domestic migrants in general like heavily Latino metro areas?
Gone through those numbers ad nauseum in the demographics thread. Here is a summary of Hispanic growth by metro area from 2011-2021. You can see what groups are growing where and the percentage of growth each group contributes:
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I'm sure many will disagree, but I work all over Metro Atlanta every week and it certainly doesn't feel like it's only 11% Hispanic to me, and it definitely doesn't feel like there are nearly 1.4 million more blacks than Hispanics.
It just feels like I'm in waaaaay too many areas where Hispanics are AT LEAST 1/4 or 1/3 of the people I see around me.
I'm sure many will disagree, but I work all over Metro Atlanta every week and it certainly doesn't feel like it's only 11% Hispanic to me, and it definitely doesn't feel like there are nearly 1.4 million more blacks than Hispanics.
It just feels like I'm in waaaaay too many areas where Hispanics are AT LEAST 1/4 or 1/3 of the people I see around me.
Atlanta is highly segregated so that is probably part of it. Hispanics can be under counted, but not nearly to the degree it would need to match what youre saying.
4. Philadelphia seems so low given both (a) proximity to New York and New Jersey and (b) the Latinization of so many Pennsylvania mid-sized towns like Reading, Hazleton, York, Lancaster. For some reason, Latinos don't seem to want to set up roots in Philadelphia but are doing so elsewhere in the vicinity.
Cost-of-living and home prices are lower in towns outside Philadelphia such as Reading, Allentown, Bethlehem, etc. Right now many of those towns seem to be popular with Dominicans looking to relocate from New York City as cost-of-living in NYC is very high. Typical Dominican heavy neighborhoods in NYC such as Washington Heights are going through an increasing gentrification, so many Dominicans there are moving out. Most to neighboring South Bronx (which traditionally has been a heavy Puerto Rican area) and others are really moving out to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Southern New England, Central Florida (Orlando area) and South Florida in the Miami and vicinity area. You also hear of many heading to places like Texas, but the bulk are going to the places already mentioned.
Also, Dominican-Americans tend to have higher education levels (it is said that 1 out of every 8 person attending any university or college in NYC is Dominican/Dominican-American and the presence of Dominicans in the City College of New York is so high, they have a Dominican Studies department, plus many are found in several Ivy Leagues such as Columbia and other high ranking places such as MIT) and along with that comes higher incomes (on average). A good chunk are preferring the suburbs, particularly in New Jersey and even in Pennsylvania. The Dominican community has also been growing steadily in Connecticut, though it seems at a slower rate, fueled by both direct migration from the DR and those looking to relocate from NYC and the immediate area.
Florida is another place attracting Dominicans from NYC and vicinity, especially the Miami-Dade area and the Orlando area. This last area has seen such an increase of Dominicans that it recently received a Dominican consulate. It used to be that Dominicans living anywhere in Florida and needed to deal with the Dominican government (get copies of birth certificates, renewing Dominican passports, etc) everything had to be done in the Dominican consulate in Miami. This is no more the case at least for Dominicans in Central and North Florida as the consulate in Orlando now takes care of that. The number one reason Dominicans are increasingly choosing Florida is because the climates there tends to be more similar to that of the DR than NYC's tri-state area climate.
I'm sure many will disagree, but I work all over Metro Atlanta every week and it certainly doesn't feel like it's only 11% Hispanic to me, and it definitely doesn't feel like there are nearly 1.4 million more blacks than Hispanics.
It just feels like I'm in waaaaay too many areas where Hispanics are AT LEAST 1/4 or 1/3 of the people I see around me.
The Hispanics population is likely under counted. Especially in the Southeast states. AL, GA, SC, NC, and TN.
With that said North Metro area is more balance between minority.
For example
Sandy Springs is 13.64% Hispanics 18.29% Black.
Roswell is 11.52% Black, 15.18% Hispanics
Gwinnett County 26.87% Black 23.04% Hispanics
then Forsyth, Cherokee "and Hall" County have a larger Hispanic population than Black.
How ever. The South central area of metro Atlanta is super black. A lot major cities like Chicago or Dallas have major Blacks areas like Chicago south and westside historically. but what stands out about Atlanta is this goes beyond just the city. Atlanta has a massive Black majority/popularity suburbia region. South Fulton, South Dekalb, Clayton, Henry County, Rockdale, and Douglas Counties are ranging from 45 to 68% Black.
Metro Atlanta is sort a bridge between the Black Belt and Appalachia, The Black Belt is a belt region in the South that counties are and were African American majority. Rural and urban.
The North Metro area is actually Appalachia, There are more mountains and summits in metro Atlanta than the Pittsburgh region. but what I find interesting the Hispanic growth in the North Metro and beyond.
For example Dalton Georgia. A North Georgia mountains town is over 50% Hispanics.
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Even going back to Hall county it's 7% black but 28% Hispanic.
Of Latinos, I’ve noticed Venezuelans, Cubans, Argentinians and Colombians to have high education levels. If we include Haitians, them as well. In Cuba and Venezuela’s case, the education levels historically stem from the educated population of those countries being pushed out.
Interesting fact, El Paso at around 700k population is too small to make this list but with over 80% Hispanics it has a little under 500k Hispanic population putting iy way up yjis lost in Hispanic population.
El Paso is definitely unique in this regard. The El Paso MSA doesnt quiet paint the true picture of actually how big the area is. The entire borderlands area is roughly 3 million people with a overwhelming majority being Latino.
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