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Wanted to focus on the Hispanic Immigrant communities. What percentage does largest Hispanic Immigrant group contribute to the Urban Area? Its below, most diverse to least:
East of the Mississippi River
Orlando: 13.0% (Venezuela)
Baltimore: 19.2% (El Salvador)
Philadelphia: 22.0% (Dominican Republic)
Boston: 23.0% (Dominican Republic)
New York City: 23.4% (Dominican Republic)
Tampa: 28.2% (Cuba)
Atlanta: 30.6% (Mexico)
Washington DC: 32.9% (El Salvador)
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 33.1% (Cuba)
Detroit: 57.6% (Mexico)
Chicago: 79.8% (Mexico)
West of the Mississippi River
Houston: 50.2% (Mexico)
San Francisco: 52.2% (Mexico)
Seattle/Tacoma: 61.8% (Mexico)
Las Vegas: 64.0% (Mexico)
Los Angeles: 66.2% (Mexico)
Dallas/Fort Worth: 70.8% (Mexico)
Portland: 71.6% (Mexico)
San Jose: 74.0% (Mexico)
Sacramento: 74.8% (Mexico)
San Diego: 87.4% (Mexico)
Phoenix: 89.3% (Mexico)
I've actually noticed a few things in regards to Dallas and Houston.
Houston feels much more international than DFW does, but the data has always shown that the difference in ethnic population between the two isn't huge. Breaking it down by Urban Area and with Frisco taken out of the DFW Urban Area, I now see why: DFW's international ethnic diversity comes from it's suburbs, Houston's comes from the city itself. So when a person is in Houston, the diversity is much more clearly on display in the city. In DFW, its largely found in the subdivisions, the schools, and shopping centers of the suburbs.
Houston's (and San Francisco's) Hispanic diversity stands out for the ones West of the Mississippi. The rest of the Urban Areas in the West don't have very diverse Hispanic populations. Los Angeles's is so big that one could say its diverse as well, but its still so Mexico dominated.
Wanted to focus on the Hispanic Immigrant communities. What percentage does largest Hispanic Immigrant group contribute to the Urban Area? Its below, most diverse to least:
East of the Mississippi River
Orlando: 13.0% (Venezuela)
Baltimore: 19.2% (El Salvador)
Philadelphia: 22.0% (Dominican Republic)
Boston: 23.0% (Dominican Republic)
New York City: 23.4% (Dominican Republic)
Tampa: 28.2% (Cuba)
Atlanta: 30.6% (Mexico)
Washington DC: 32.9% (El Salvador)
Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 33.1% (Cuba)
Detroit: 57.6% (Mexico)
Chicago: 79.8% (Mexico)
West of the Mississippi River
Houston: 50.2% (Mexico)
San Francisco: 52.2% (Mexico)
Seattle/Tacoma: 61.8% (Mexico)
Las Vegas: 64.0% (Mexico)
Los Angeles: 66.2% (Mexico)
Dallas/Fort Worth: 70.8% (Mexico)
Portland: 71.6% (Mexico)
San Jose: 74.0% (Mexico)
Sacramento: 74.8% (Mexico)
San Diego: 87.4% (Mexico)
Phoenix: 89.3% (Mexico)
criteria:
1. UA with 100,000+ adults with a bachelor degree or higher
2. Bachelor Degree rate of 30% or higher
2022 Urban Areas by the % of Adults Age 25 or older with a Bachelor Degree or Higher:
65.2%--Livermore-Pleasanton-Dublin, CA
60.6%--Concord-Walnut Creek, CA
59.4%--Durham, NC
58.9%--Madison, WI
58.5%--San Jose, CA
57.6%--Washington, DC-VA-MD
57.5%--Ann Arbor, MI
57.2%--McKinney-Frisco, TX
57.1%--Raleigh, NC
55.4%--Austin, TX
54.3%--Mission Viejo-Lake Forest-Laguna Niguel, CA
53.9%--San Francisco-Oakland, CA
52.1%--Ft Collins, CO
51.3%--Boston, MA-NH
50.2%--The Woodlands, TX
49.2%--Charlotte, NC-SC
49.1%--Huntsville, AL
49.0%--Denton-Lewisville, TX
48.9%--Denver-Aurora, CO
48.8%--Nashville, TN
48.5%--Seattle-Tacoma, WA
48.3%--Bridgeport-Stamford, CT-NY
48.1%--Minneapolis-St Paul, MN
48.0%--Barnstable Town, MA
47.5%--Boise, ID
46.0%--Provo-Orem, UT
45.1%--Richmond, VA
45.0%--Atlanta, GA
44.5%--Bonita Springs-Estero, FL
44.4%--Columbus, OH
44.3%--Baltimore, MD
43.8%--Des Moines, IA
43.8%--New York-Jersey City-Newark, NY-NJ
43.8%--Portland, OR-WA
43.7%--San Diego, CA
42.9%--Columbia, SC
42.8%--Birmingham, AL
42.8%--Pittsburgh, PA
42.7%--Charleston, SC
42.6%--Colorado Springs, CO
42.6%--Philadelphia, PA-NJ-DE-MD
42.4%--Albany-Schenectady, NY
42.4%--Trenton, NJ
42.3%--Chicago, IL-IN
42.1%--St Louis, MO
42.0%--Kansas City, MO-KS
41.5%--Indianapolis, IN
41.2%--Worcester, MA-CT
40.9%--Omaha, NE-IA
40.8%--Rochester, NY
40.7%--Cincinnati, OH-KY
40.7%--Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AK-MO
40.5%--Grand Rapids, MI
40.3%--New Haven, CT
40.3%--Orlando, FL
39.7%--Harrisburg, PA
39.6%--Hartford, CT
39.5%--Milwaukee, WI
39.3%--Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, FL
38.9%--Salt Lake City, UT
38.9%--Syracuse, NY
38.6%--Dallas-Ft Worth-Arlington, TX
38.1%--Cleveland, OH
37.9%--Greenville, SC
37.8%--Albuquerque, NM
37.8%--Winston-Salem, NC
37.7%--Palm Bay-Melbourne, FL
37.7%--Tucson, AZ
37.4%--Knoxville, TN
37.3%--Providence, RI-MA
37.2%--Miami-Ft Lauderdale, FL
37.1%--Buffalo, NY
36.9%--Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
36.8%--Houston, TX
36.8%--Louisville, KY-IN
36.8%--Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
36.8%--Tampa-St Petersburg, FL
36.7%--Honolulu, HI
36.6%--Jacksonville, FL
36.4%--Chattanooga, TN-GA
36.1%--Lancaster-Manheim, PA
36.0%--Little Rock, AR
36.0%--Sacramento, CA
35.7%--Ogden-Layton, UT
35.1%--Dayton, OH
35.0%--Detroit, MI
34.7%--Baton Rouge, LA
34.7%--New Orleans, LA
34.7%--Oklahoma City, OK
34.7%--Virginia Beach-Norfolk, VA
34.2%--Spokane, WA
34.1%--Tulsa, OK
33.8%--Wichita, KS
33.6%--Memphis, TN-MS-AR
32.8%--Allentown-Bethlehem, PA-NJ
32.4%--San Antonio, TX
31.3%--Toledo, OH-MI
30.2%--Port St Lucie, FL
Overall after checking on Bmore, DC, NYC, and others- there's not much change from 2019 to 2022 in most of these cities. Its been a pretty stagnant period in terms of demographic shifts.
But if you look at Race Alone plus two or more races SF goes up to 6.6% Black. Still extremely low. Seattle is a bit higher at 7.9% Black.
criteria:
1. UA with 100,000+ adults with a bachelor degree or higher
2. Bachelor Degree rate of 30% or higher
2022 Urban Areas by the % of Adults Age 25 or older with a Bachelor Degree or Higher:
65.2%--Livermore-Pleasanton-Dublin, CA
60.6%--Concord-Walnut Creek, CA
59.4%--Durham, NC
58.9%--Madison, WI
58.5%--San Jose, CA
57.6%--Washington, DC-VA-MD
57.5%--Ann Arbor, MI
57.2%--McKinney-Frisco, TX
57.1%--Raleigh, NC
55.4%--Austin, TX
54.3%--Mission Viejo-Lake Forest-Laguna Niguel, CA
53.9%--San Francisco-Oakland, CA
52.1%--Ft Collins, CO
51.3%--Boston, MA-NH
50.2%--The Woodlands, TX
49.2%--Charlotte, NC-SC
49.1%--Huntsville, AL
49.0%--Denton-Lewisville, TX
48.9%--Denver-Aurora, CO
48.8%--Nashville, TN
48.5%--Seattle-Tacoma, WA
48.3%--Bridgeport-Stamford, CT-NY
48.1%--Minneapolis-St Paul, MN
48.0%--Barnstable Town, MA
47.5%--Boise, ID
46.0%--Provo-Orem, UT
45.1%--Richmond, VA
5 of the top 12 Urban Areas with Bachelor's degrees are in the Bay Area. That's crazy - an insane amount of brain power in that part of the country.
I moved from the Bay Area to Seattle 20 years ago and people act like the Puget Sound (Seattle Metro) has a similar profile to the Bay Area and it just doesn't. The cities of Seattle and SF proper are comparable, sure. The Eastside of King County has some sections that are like Walnut Creek or Silicon Valley. But much of the Seattle metro (especially Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap Counties) is pretty redneck-ish/blue-collar/military-oriented. There's a reason Seattle-Tacoma is below Denver, Charlotte, Austin, Nashville, Boston and many others on this list.
Washington State has some really uneducated, backwoods areas. Fun-fact: Aberdeen, Washington, the town where Kurt Cobain grew up has a 16.7% Bachelor's Degree rate. That's insanely low. He hated it there and claimed it was full of racists and rednecks who would beat him and call him gay. Based on my experience there that checks out.
West of the Mississippi River
Houston: 50.2% (Mexico)
San Francisco: 52.2% (Mexico)
Seattle/Tacoma: 61.8% (Mexico)
Las Vegas: 64.0% (Mexico)
Los Angeles: 66.2% (Mexico)
Dallas/Fort Worth: 70.8% (Mexico)
Portland: 71.6% (Mexico)
San Jose: 74.0% (Mexico)
Sacramento: 74.8% (Mexico)
San Diego: 87.4% (Mexico)
Phoenix: 89.3% (Mexico)
This makes me wonder now, where do the non-Mexican Hispanics in western metros tend to come from?
I know (randomly) Shelton, WA has a large Mayan community --- some being from Mexico but some from Guatemala and Nicaragua.
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Originally Posted by Vincent_Adultman
Washington State has some really uneducated, backwoods areas. Fun-fact: Aberdeen, Washington, the town where Kurt Cobain grew up has a 16.7% Bachelor's Degree rate. That's insanely low. He hated it there and claimed it was full of racists and rednecks who would beat him and call him gay. Based on my experience there that checks out.
Hah. I was talking a walk around Aberdeen at night once. On the same walk, two groups of guys in pickups slowed down while passing me to ask if I lived there and what I was doing there. I dressed kinda punk at the time so I guess they could see I wasn't a local.
I am a bit surprised Aberdeen hasn't gentrified more, as a place for people to land when priced out from Tacoma/Olympia. I guess Centralia/Chehalis is serving that role more, being a bit closer and much better kept up.
This makes me wonder now, where do the non-Mexican Hispanics in western metros tend to come from?
I know (randomly) Shelton, WA has a large Mayan community --- some being from Mexico but some from Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Hah. I was talking a walk around Aberdeen at night once. On the same walk, two groups of guys in pickups slowed down while passing me to ask if I lived there and what I was doing there. I dressed kinda punk at the time so I guess they could see I wasn't a local.
I am a bit surprised Aberdeen hasn't gentrified more, as a place for people to land when priced out from Tacoma/Olympia. I guess Centralia/Chehalis is serving that role more, being a bit closer and much better kept up.
Centralia/Chehalis is much nicer than Grays Harbor in my opinion. It's largely working class but there's a decent economy, a decent downtown area, and you don't get nearly the Deliverance-level backwoods vibes you get in parts of Aberdeen/Grays Harbor.
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