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Originally Posted by DetroitSky
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There hasn't been a very strong Puerto Rican community in Detroit. Albeit in Detroit, they make up about 6,060 (about 1% of Detroit's population and 12.6% of Detroit's Latinos), in MI, the total Puerto Rican population is about 51,116 (0.51% of MI's population and 9% of MI's Latinos). There's supposed to be another community in Pontiac, last time I checked, but Mexicans make up the majority of Detroit's (3.9% of Detroit's population and 67.6% of Detroit's Latinos) and MI's (3.9% of MI's population and 67.6% of MI's Latinos) Latino population!!! I can't think of one neighborhood that's exclusively Puerto Rican, as most of the PR population is within the larger Southwest Detroit community, where Mexicans often dominate.
Also, it seems like Detroit didn't benefit from the PR migration that happened from the late 1940's to as late as the 1990's when Puerto Ricans left Puerto Rico to cities on the East Coast such as NY, Boston, Providence, Hartford, Newark, Philadelphia, and other cities such as Buffalo, Rochester, Cleveland, and especially Chicago and Milwaukee. Cities like Baltimore, Pittsburgh, St Louis, and Detroit did not have a large and visual migration of Puerto Ricans, which was the reason why Detroit until this past decade, has always maintained a very large black/white divide, while other cities in the country have managed to attract large Asian and Latino populations.