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Table 2. Metros with largest Afro-Caribbean
population 2000
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|
|
Afro-Caribbean
|
Percent of black total
|
Percent of metro total
|
Growth
|
|
|
1990
|
2000
|
1990
|
2000
|
1990
|
2000
|
1990-2000
|
|
New York, NY
|
403,198
|
566,770
|
20.3
|
25.7
|
4.7
|
6.1
|
40.6
|
|
Miami, FL
|
105,477
|
153,255
|
28.5
|
34.4
|
5.4
|
6.8
|
45.3
|
|
Fort Lauderdale, FL
|
55,197
|
150,476
|
29.6
|
43.4
|
4.4
|
9.3
|
172.6
|
|
Boston, MA-NH
|
40,825
|
62,950
|
20.6
|
25.6
|
1.3
|
1.8
|
54.2
|
|
Nassau-Suffolk, NY
|
32,210
|
60,412
|
17.7
|
25.5
|
1.2
|
2.2
|
87.6
|
|
Newark, NJ
|
29,818
|
55,345
|
7.3
|
12.1
|
1.6
|
2.7
|
85.6
|
|
West Palm Beach-Boca Raton,
FL
|
20,441
|
49,402
|
19.8
|
30.3
|
2.4
|
4.4
|
141.7
|
|
Washington,
DC-MD-VA-WV
|
32,440
|
48,900
|
3.1
|
3.7
|
0.8
|
1.0
|
50.7
|
|
Orlando, FL
|
14,872
|
42,531
|
10.4
|
18.4
|
1.2
|
2.6
|
186.0
|
|
Atlanta, GA
|
8,342
|
35,308
|
1.1
|
2.9
|
0.3
|
0.9
|
323.3
|
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Table 3. Metros with largest African-born
population 2000
|
|
|
African-born
|
Percent of black total
|
Percent of metro total
|
Growth
|
|
|
1990
|
2000
|
1990
|
2000
|
1990
|
2000
|
1990-2000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Washington,
DC-MD-VA-WV
|
32,248
|
80,281
|
3.0
|
6.1
|
0.8
|
1.6
|
148.9
|
|
New York, NY
|
31,532
|
73,851
|
1.6
|
3.4
|
0.4
|
0.8
|
134.2
|
|
Atlanta, GA
|
8,919
|
34,302
|
1.2
|
2.9
|
0.3
|
0.8
|
284.6
|
|
Minneapolis-St. Paul,
MN-WI
|
3,788
|
27,592
|
4.3
|
15.4
|
0.1
|
0.9
|
628.4
|
|
Los Angeles-Long
Beach, CA
|
16,826
|
25,829
|
1.8
|
2.7
|
0.2
|
0.3
|
53.5
|
|
Boston, MA-NH
|
11,989
|
24,231
|
6.0
|
9.8
|
0.4
|
0.7
|
102.1
|
|
Houston, TX
|
9,882
|
22,638
|
1.6
|
3.1
|
0.3
|
0.5
|
129.1
|
|
Chicago, IL
|
8,738
|
19,438
|
0.6
|
1.2
|
0.1
|
0.2
|
122.5
|
|
Dallas, TX
|
7,373
|
19,134
|
1.8
|
3.6
|
0.3
|
0.5
|
159.5
|
|
Philadelphia, PA-NJ
|
5,098
|
16,344
|
0.6
|
1.6
|
0.1
|
0.3
|
220.6
|
All of the top ten metro regions for
Afro-Caribbean populations show growth rates of at least 40 percent since
1990, but four metro areas more than doubled the size of this
population. Atlanta saw a four-fold
increase in its Afro-Caribbean population, while Orlando nearly tripled its
population of this group. With the
exceptions of Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, the percentage of the
non-Hispanic black population accounted for by Afro-Caribbeans in these top
metropolitan regions is quite striking.
For instance, over one-quarter of the non-Hispanic black population in
the New York and Boston metro areas is Afro-Caribbean.
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