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The Muslim World in Metropolitan America
John R. Logan and Glenn Deane
Lewis Mumford Center
for Comparative Urban and Regional Research
University at Albany
August
15, 2003
This report is based on data from the 1990 and
2000 Census of Population, analyzed by Mumford Center researchers Hyoung-jin Shin
and Elena Vesselinov. This report updates the report released
October 11, 2002 that used the Census 2000 Supplemental Survey (for details,
see Technical Notes page).
Highlights:
- The
Muslim-origin population nearly doubled since 1990, from 1.5 million to
almost 2.9 million
- Middle
Eastern place of birth or ancestry is still the largest origin group,
but the South Asian Muslim-origin population experienced the largest
percent increase since 1990
- The
social and economic portrait of Muslim-origin Americans is comparable to
that for non-Hispanic whites
- Residential
segregation is low, but increasing
- Neighborhood
quality is improving
- Four
metropolitan areas have Muslim-origin populations in excess of 100,000
- Almost
half of the metropolitan population of Muslim-origin Americans lives in
ten metro regions
- Two
types of settlement in the metropolis: one is evenly split between city
and suburb, and the other is overwhelmingly suburban
- The
Muslim-origin populations in Detroit and, to a lesser extent, New York
City stand out as exceptions to general statements about Muslim-origin
people in metropolitan America
This report summarizes what is known about the social
backgrounds and locations of each major Muslim-origin group. We emphasize where they live, the degree
to which they form separate residential enclaves in the metropolis, and the
quality of their neighborhoods.
More complete information on the size and residential
patterns of Muslim-origin groups for every metropolis in 1990 and 2000 is
available on the Mumford Center web page:
http://brownS4.dyndns.org/cen2000_s4/BlackWhite/BlackWhite.htm
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