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Census reveals plummeting U.S. birthrates


June 3rd, 2011

By Haya El Nasser and Paul Overberg



Read More: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2011-06-03-fewer-children-census-suburbs_n.htm

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Children, the mainstay of suburbia and residential neighborhoods across the nation for more than a half-century, are fewer and increasingly sparse in many places. The share of the population under age 18 dropped in 95% of U.S. counties since 2000, according to a USA TODAY analysis of the 2010 Census. The number of households that have children under age 18 has stayed at 38 million since 2000, despite a 9.7% growth in the U.S. population. As a result, the share of households with children dropped from 36% in 2000 to 33.5%.Helen Cini has lived in four different sections of Levittown, Pa., and has resided in her current Levittown home for 35 years. There are now more households with dogs (43 million) than children.

- Americans are getting older, and women are having children later. And when they do, they're not having as many. Births among Hispanics — they make up 23.1% of those under 18, up from 17.1% in 2000 — have not been enough to stem the overall decline. Because families with children tend to live near each other, the result is an increasingly patchy landscape of communities teeming with kids, and others with very few. "All of a sudden, there may technically be no children in the neighborhood," says James Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. The number of non-Hispanic white women of child-bearing age has dropped 6% since 2000, and they're not having having enough children to keep that population from dropping eventually. Fertility has declined among blacks, too, resulting in a 2.3% drop in black children during the same period.

- A recent Census survey shows that white women are more likely to be childless than other groups and that black women are more likely to be childless than Hispanics.The drop in fertility is "a big contributor," says Kenneth Johnson, demographer at the University of New Hampshire's Carsey Institute. "Although there is a substantial number of women in urban cores, there's not a lot of children produced by them."

The USA TODAY analysis shows:

• Children make up 24% of the nation's population, down from 25.7% in 2000. The kid population declined more precipitously in 58.6% of the country' 3,143 counties.

• The number of counties that had a greater share of kids than the national average fell from 1,378 to 1,247.

• Even in counties where the percentage of children grew, only 49 gained more than 1 percentage point — many of them suburbs on the outer edge of metropolitan areas such as Forsyth, Whitfield and Newton outside Atlanta and Cabarrus and Union outside Charlotte.

A University of Southern California analysis of the state's shrinking child population found that Los Angeles County is at the center of the decline because of difficult living conditions for families facing high housing costs during economic hard times. "The image of the white family living in the suburb is becoming extinct,'' says William Frey, demographer at the Brookings Institution. "It's an endangered species."

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USA TODAY's Live Stream Census: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/default.htm

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Originally Posted by brickell

I'm always surprised by how much the Cubans outpunch their weight in politics. I guess that's what congregating in a swing state gets for you.

For having only 1.5 million Cubans in the country they have 2 US Senators & 4 Reps in Congress. Cubans tend to have higher education & incomes maybe that is a factor why they are so political.

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I hope that USA Today article mentioned that much of the reduction in kids is due to the baby boom leaving the kid-having years, and the baby boom echo just entering them.

When I actually read their articles, they tend to miss stuff like this. USA Today is by and for retards.

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Originally Posted by Urbanguy

Select population groups of The Big Boys:


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United States 2010 |-| 2000 ( Change )
Asian Indian alone: 2,843,391 <:: 1,678,765 ( 1,164,626 )
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 3,347,229 <:: 2,432,585 ( 914,644 )
Filipino alone: 2,555,923 <:: 1,850,314 ( 705,609 )
Japanese alone: 763,325 <:: 796,700 ( -33,375 )
Korean alone: 1,423,784 <:: 1,076,872 ( 346,912 )
Vietnamese alone: 1,548,449 <:: 1,122,528 ( 425,921 )
Native Hawaiian alone: 156,146 <:: 140,652 ( 15,494 )
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 88,310 <:: 58,240 ( 30,070 )
Samoan alone: 109,637 <:: 91,029 ( 18,608 )
Mexican: 31,798,258 <:: 20,640,711 ( 11,157,547 )
Puerto Rican: 4,623,716 <:: 3,406,178 ( 1,217,538 )
Cuban: 1,785,547 <:: 1,241,685 ( 543,862 )
Dominican 1,414,703 <:: 764,945 ( 649,758 )
Costa Rican 126,418 <:: 68,588 ( 57,830 )
Guatemalan 1,044,209 <:: 372,487 ( 671,722 )
Honduran 633,401 <:: 217,569 ( 415,832 )
Nicaraguan 348,202 <:: 177,684 ( 170,518 )
Panamanian 165,456 <:: 91,723 ( 73,733 )
Salvadoran 1,648,968 <:: 655,165 ( 993,803 )
Argentinean 224,952 <:: 100,864 ( 124,088 )
Bolivian 99,210 <:: 42,068 ( 57,142 )
Chilean 126,810 <:: 68,849 ( 57,961 )
Colombian 908,734 <:: 470,684 ( 438,050 )
Ecuadorian 564,631 <:: 260,559 ( 304,072 )
Paraguayan 20,023 <:: 8,769 ( 11,254 )
Peruvian 531,358 <:: 233,926 ( 297,432 )
Uruguayan 56,884 <:: 18,804 ( 38,080 )
Venezuelan 215,023 <:: 91,507 ( 123,516 )
Spaniard 635,253 <:: 100,135 ( 535,118 )
Total population: 308,745,538 <:: 281,421,906 ( 27,323,632 )

Those stats are for Asia and Latin America. Any stats for the rest of the world including Europe, Africa, and the Middle East?

[Urbanguy]

^& Oceania (Polynesia, Micronesia -- no Melanesia yet). Stats for other regions will be released with the Summary File 1 over the summer (Jun-Aug).

The Top 20 States of 2010 by ethnic group or Hispanic or Latino origin based on data released so far & their rank in 2000

*These numbers do not include those that are mixed outside of their ethnic or racial group except for Hispanic or Latino which can by of any race.

Asian Indian alone: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 California 528,176 (1)
2 New York 313,620 (2)
3 New Jersey 292,256 (3)
4 Texas 245,981 (4)
5 Illinois 188,328 (5)
6 Florida 128,735 (6)
7 Virginia 103,916 (10)
8 Pennsylvania 103,026 (7)
9 Georgia 96,116 (11)
10 Maryland 79,051 (9)

11 Massachusetts 77,177 (12)
12 Michigan 77,132 (8)
13 Ohio 64,187 (13)
14 Washington 61,124 (15)
15 North Carolina 57,400 (14)
16 Connecticut 46,415 (16)
17 Arizona 36,047 (18)
18 Minnesota 33,031 (17)
19 Indiana 27,598 (19)
20 Tennessee 23,900 (20)

Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 California 1,253,102 (1)
2 New York 576,952 (2)
3 Texas 156,820 (3)
4 New Jersey 134,442 (4)
5 Massachusetts 122,957 (5)
6 Illinois 104,166 (6)
7 Washington 94,198 (7)
8 Pennsylvania 84,812 (9)
9 Florida 72,248 (11)
10 Maryland 69,381 (10)

11 Virginia 59,777 (12)
12 Hawaii 54,955 (8)
13 Georgia 45,849 (15)
14 Michigan 44,496 (13)
15 Ohio 43,818 (14)
16 North Carolina 34,169 (19)
17 Arizona 32,356 (16)
18 Connecticut 31,404 (18)
19 Oregon 30,919 (17)
20 Nevada 28,929 (22)

Filipino alone: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 California 1,195,580 (1)
2 Hawaii 197,497 (2)
3 Illinois 114,724 (3)
4 New Jersey 110,650 (4)
5 New York 104,287 (5)
6 Texas 103,074 (7)
7 Nevada 98,351 (10)
8 Washington 91,367 (6)
9 Florida 90,223 (8)
10 Virginia 66,963 (9)

11 Maryland 43,923 (11)
12 Arizona 35,013 (13)
13 Michigan 22,047 (12)
14 Pennsylvania 21,948 (14)
15 Alaska 19,394 (15)
16 North Carolina 18,643 (19)
17 Georgia 17,923 (17)
18 Ohio 16,899 (16)
19 Oregon 15,861 (18)
20 Colorado 14,448 (20)

Japanese alone: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 California 272,528 (1)
2 Hawaii 185,502 (2)
3 New York 37,780 (3)
4 Washington 35,008 (4)
5 Texas 18,360 (6)
6 Illinois 17,542 (5)
7 Florida 13,224 (11)
8 New Jersey 13,146 (7)
9 Oregon 12,085 (8)
10 Colorado 11,097 (9)

11 Michigan 10,911 (10)
12 Nevada 10,873 (15)
13 Ohio 10,162 (12)
14 Virginia 9,471 (14)
15 Massachusetts 9,224 (13)
16 Arizona 9,152 (16)
17 Georgia 7,658 (17)
18 Maryland 6,749 (19)
19 Pennsylvania 6,492 (18)
20 North Carolina 6,411 (21)

Korean alone: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 California 451,892 (1)
2 New York 140,994 (2)
3 New Jersey 93,679 (3)
4 Virginia 70,577 (7)
5 Texas 67,750 (6)
6 Washington 62,374 (5)
7 Illinois 61,469 (4)
8 Georgia 52,431 (10)
9 Maryland 48,592 (8)
10 Pennsylvania 40,505 (9)

11 Florida 26,205 (13)
12 Hawaii 24,203 (11)
13 Michigan 24,186 (12)
14 Massachusetts 24,110 (14)
15 Colorado 20,433 (15)
16 North Carolina 19,221 (17)
17 Ohio 15,281 (16)
18 Oregon 15,212 (19)
19 Arizona 15,022 (20)
20 Minnesota 14,982 (18)

Vietnamese alone: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 California 581,946 (1)
2 Texas 210,913 (2)
3 Washington 66,575 (3)
4 Florida 58,470 (6)
5 Virginia 53,529 (4)
6 Georgia 45,263 (8)
7 Massachusetts 42,915 (5)
8 Pennsylvania 39,008 (7)
9 New York 28,764 (10)
10 Louisiana 28,352 (9)

11 North Carolina 27,304 (15)
12 Oregon 26,195 (12)
13 Illinois 25,036 (11)
14 Arizona 24,216 (19)
15 Maryland 23,635 (14)
16 Minnesota 23,544 (13)
17 Colorado 20,899 (16)
18 New Jersey 20,628 (17)
19 Michigan 16,787 (18)
20 Oklahoma 16,258 (20)

Native Hawaiian alone: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 Hawaii 80,337 (1)
2 California 21,423 (2)
3 Nevada 6,459 (5)
4 Washington 5,861 (3)
5 Texas 4,794 (4)
6 Arizona 3,837 (8)
7 Oregon 3,060 (6)
8 Florida 2,809 (7)
9 Utah 1,911 (11)
10 New York 1,802 (9)

11 Colorado 1,783 (10)
12 Virginia 1,410 (12)
13 North Carolina 1,389 (14)
14 Georgia 1,319 (16)
15 Illinois 1,122 (13)
16 Missouri 958 (23)
17 Alaska 949 (20)
18 Oklahoma 942 (19)
19 Pennsylvania 940 (15)
20 Ohio 928 (17)

Guamanian or Chamorro alone: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 California 24,299 (1)
2 Washington 9,746 (2)
3 Texas 6,591 (3)
4 Florida 3,747 (4)
5 Nevada 3,513 (9)
6 Georgia 2,746 (7)
7 Hawaii 2,700 (6)
8 Arizona 2,646 (8)
9 North Carolina 2,505 (10)
10 New York 2,235 (5)

11 Virginia 2,222 (11)
12 Colorado 1,784 (12)
13 Alabama 1,774 (22)
14 Oregon 1,755 (13)
15 Tennessee 1,507 (17)
16 Maryland 1,319 (16)
17 Ohio 1,145 (20)
18 Illinois 1,100 (14)
19 South Carolina 1,046 (24)
20 Missouri 969 (26)

Samoan alone: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 California 40,900 (1)
2 Hawaii 18,287 (2)
3 Washington 13,110 (3)
4 Utah 8,246 (4)
5 Alaska 4,663 (6)
6 Nevada 3,202 (8)
7 Texas 2,918 (5)
8 Arizona 2,000 (10)
9 Oregon 1,559 (11)
10 Missouri 1,557 (12)

11 Florida 1,153 (9)
12 Colorado 1,091 (14)
13 Georgia 919 (16)
14 Virginia 749 (18)
15 North Carolina 716 (15)
16 Ohio 702 (19)
17 New York 685 (7)
18 Tennessee 516 (21)
19 Illinois 492 (13)
20 Pennsylvania 453 (17)

Mexican: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 California 11,423,146 (1)
2 Texas 7,951,193 (2)
3 Arizona 1,657,668 (4)
4 Illinois 1,602,403 (3)
5 Colorado 757,181 (5)
6 Florida 629,718 (6)
7 Washington 601,768 (8)
8 New Mexico 590,890 (7)
9 Nevada 540,978 (9)
10 Georgia 519,502 (10)

11 North Carolina 486,960 (12)
12 New York 457,288 (11)
13 Oregon 369,817 (14)
14 Michigan 317,903 (13)
15 Indiana 295,373 (15)
16 Oklahoma 267,016 (18)
17 Utah 258,905 (17)
18 Kansas 247,297 (16)
19 Wisconsin 244,248 (19)
20 New Jersey 217,715 (20)

Puerto Rican: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 New York 1,070,558 (1)
2 Florida 847,550 (2)
3 New Jersey 434,092 (3)
4 Pennsylvania 366,082 (4)
5 Massachusetts 266,125 (5)
6 Connecticut 252,972 (6)
7 California 189,945 (8)
8 Illinois 182,989 (7)
9 Texas 130,576 (9)
10 Ohio 94,965 (10)

11 Virginia 73,958 (11)
12 Georgia 71,987 (12)
13 North Carolina 71,800 (13)
14 Wisconsin 46,323 (14)
15 Hawaii 44,116 (15)
16 Maryland 42,572 (17)
17 Michigan 37,267 (16)
18 Rhode Island 34,979 (18)
19 Arizona 34,787 (20)
20 Indiana 30,304 (19)

Cuban: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 Florida 1,213,438 (1)
2 California 88,607 (3)
3 New Jersey 83,362 (2)
4 New York 70,803 (4)
5 Texas 46,541 (5)
6 Georgia 25,048 (7)
7 Illinois 22,541 (6)
8 Nevada 21,459 (8)
9 North Carolina 18,079 (13)
10 Pennsylvania 17,930 (9)

11 Virginia 15,229 (12)
12 Massachusetts 11,306 (10)
13 Arizona 10,692 (17)
14 Maryland 10,366 (16)
15 Louisiana 10,330 (11)
16 Michigan 9,922 (14)
17 Connecticut 9,490 (15)
18 Kentucky 9,323 (22)
19 Tennessee 7,773 (21)
20 Ohio 7,523 (18)

*Limited release -- Top 5 only:

Dominican: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 New York 674,787 (1)
2 New Jersey 197,922 (2)
3 Florida 172,451 (3)
4 Massachusetts 103,292 (4)
5 Pennsylvania 62,348 (6)

Guatemalan: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 California 332,737 (1)
2 Florida 83,882 (3)
3 New York 73,806 (2)
4 Texas 66,244 (5)
5 New Jersey 48,869 (6)

Salvadoran: <Pop.> (Rank '00)
1 California 573,956 (1)
2 Texas 222,599 (2)
3 New York 152,130 (3)
4 Virginia 123,800 (4)
5 Maryland 123,789 (5)

[Urbanguy]

RST500, actually, scratch what I had mentioned about Summary File 1. We may have to wait longer because I don't think data for people of European, African or Middle Eastern ancestries are included with Summary File 1. I think that Summary File 1 only has more detailed information about Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander & Hispanic or Latino populations. It is possible that we may have to wait until 2012 or 2013! The Census rolls out information VERY slowly!

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The Surprising Life in America’s Supposedly ‘Dying’ Cities


June 13th, 2011



Read More: http://www.infrastructurist.com/2011/06/...erica%E2%80%99s-supposedly-dying-cities/

In January of this year, Newsweek published its list of “America’s Dying Cities.” The story declared that these were cities “with bleak futures ahead.” Not surprisingly, the list contained many cities that have struggled in past decade, losing both population and industry:

10. Grand Rapids, Michigan
9. Flint, Michigan
8. South Bend, Indiana
7. Detroit, Michigan
6. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
5. Cleveland, Ohio
4. Rochester, New York
3. Hialeah, Florida
2. Vallejo, California
1. New Orleans, Louisiana

What this list really reflects, however, is the bias and nature of our measures of progress and economic growth. If you are not growing by the traditional definitions, then you are dying. In this case, dying was essentially defined as losing population overall, with particular attention paid to the under-18 demographic.

This under-18 measurement is highly problematic – a recent USA Today analysis of the 2010 census found that 95% of U.S. counties lost population in the under-18 demographic. Overall, the under-18 population remained relatively static despite an overall 9.7% growth in total U.S. population. Households with children dropped from 36% in 2000 to 33.5% in 2010. To find the areas that have gained population in the under-18 group, “all you have to do is look for Latino immigrants. They are the only group in the U.S. that is producing children above replacement rates” said Kevin Stolarick, Research Director for the Martin Prosperity Institute in Toronto.

Yes, population loss is a metric that needs to be tracked and measured — but it should not be equated with death. If that were simply the case, Chicago would be a dying city, since it lost nearly 7% of its population from 2000 to 2010. As human beings we stop “growing” in our early 20s, yet we hardly think of a 25-year-old as dying — still, at a cellular level, they are dying in the same way that these cities are dying.

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[10023]

I was in Pittsburgh about a week and a half ago, and I don't think it's dying at all.

Rochester, on the other hand, I understand.

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Census Data Reveals Fundamental Changes in Modern Families


Page 1 of 6: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/nyregi...dxnnlx=1308600007-Qi8/cP5E6c5bBwfAKO64Vw

SUMMARY

Think your living arrangement is unique? You aren't alone. The New York Times parses the vicissitudes and permutations of the twenty-first century American households. The changing profile of U.S. households portends profound changes in the way people live, work, and play.

"[A]ccording to census data, more households consist of the unmarried than the married," writes columnist N. R. Kleinfield in a supplementary article. He continues, "More people seem to be deciding that the contours of the traditional nuclear family do not work for them, spawning a profusion of cobbled-together networks in need of nomenclature."

What larger societal force accounts for this paradigm shift? Kleinfield offers an abridged explanation: "The double households began because of economics."

Start building your household. Interactive: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/...seholds-are-like-yours.html?ref=nyregion

[Urbanguy]

The US Census 2010 has just started to roll out data from Summary File 1 which includes more detailed Asian, Native American, Hispanic or Latino & Pacific Islander groups than the recently released Demographic Profile did. The first two states released are Alabama & Hawaii. The states to be released later this week are California, Delaware, Kansas, Pennsylvania and Wyoming.

NOTE: There's no data for Arab/Middle Eastern, European, West Indian or Subsaharan African groups with this release.

Here are some of the largest ethnic, racial, tribal alone (not mixed) and Hispanic or Latino groups for Alabama, Hawaii, Birmingham MSA & Honolulu MSA that have been released or are available so far.

Alabama
1 Black or African American alone: 1,251,311
2 Mexican: 122,911
3 Guatemalan: 14,282
4 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 13,036
5 Puerto Rican: 12,225
6 Cherokee alone: 9,438
7 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 8,965
8 Korean alone: 8,320
9 Vietnamese alone: 7,398
10 Filipino alone: 4,952
11 Cuban: 4,064
Total Population: 4,779,736

Hawaii
1 Filipino alone: 197,497
2 Japanese alone: 185,502
3 Native Hawaiian (Kānaka Maoli) alone: 80,337
4 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 53,963
5 Puerto Rican: 44,116
6 Mexican: 35,415
7 Korean alone: 24,203
8 Spaniard or Spanish: 23,660
9 Black or African American alone: 21,424
10 Samoan alone: 18,287
11 Vietnamese alone: 9,779
Total Population: 1,360,301

Birmingham, AL MSA
1 Black or African American alone: 318,373
2 Mexican: 35,298
3 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 4,468
4 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 2,734
5 Puerto Rican: 1,831
6 Vietnamese alone: 1,746
7 Guatemalan: 1,484
8 Korean alone: 1,238
9 Cherokee alone: 1,130
10 Salvadoran: 1,091
11 Filipino alone: 1,014
Total Population: 1,128,047

Honolulu, HI MSA
1 Japanese alone: 149,701
2 Filipino alone: 142,238
3 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 50,833
4 Native Hawaiian (Kānaka Maoli) alone: 47,951
5 Puerto Rican: 27,221
6 Korean alone: 22,179
7 Mexican alone: 21,580
8 Black or African American alone: 19,256
9 Samoan alone: 17,154
10 Spaniard or Spanish: 16,481
11 Vietnamese alone: 8,887
Total Population: 953,207

The following are by Multiple (or total) Responses (alone or in combination/mixed). These are the largest groups that have been released or available so far. This is definitely where Hawaii really stands out when compared to most other states mainly because it has such a high multi-ethnic, multi-racial population (highest by percentage & 5th highest in raw numbers).

NOTE: I could not find any data for multiple responses for individual Hispanic or Latino groups (e.g., Puerto Rican, Mexican, etc) so I just included the total.

Alabama
1 Black or African American: 1,281,118
2 Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 197,493
3 Cherokee: 21,144
4 Asian Indian or East Indian: 14,951
5 Chinese (except Taiwanese): 10,637
6 Korean: 10,624
7 Vietnamese: 8,488
8 Filipino: 8,224
9 Creek: 5,905
10 Choctaw: 4,513
11 Japanese: 4,336
Total races tallied: 4,855,616

Hawaii
1 Filipino: 342,095
2 Japanese: 312,292
3 Native Hawaiian (Kānaka Maoli): 289,970
4 Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 209,485
5 Chinese (except Taiwanese): 198,711
6 Korean: 48,699
7 Black or African American: 38,820
8 Samoan: 37,463
9 Vietnamese: 13,266
10 Tongan: 8,085
11 Cherokee: 8,024
12 Marshallese: 7,412
13 Guamanian or Chamorro (Chamoru): 6,647
14 Asian Indian or East Indian: 4,737
Total races tallied: 1,807,596

Birmingham, AL MSA
1 Black or African American: 324,055
2 Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 51,059
3 Asian Indian or East Indian: 4,952
4 Chinese (except Taiwanese): 3,111
5 Cherokee: 2,823
6 Vietnamese: 1,986
7 Filipino: 1,657
8 Korean: 1,586
9 Japanese: 1,035
10 Pakistani: 789
Total races tallied: 1,142,222

Honolulu, HI MSA
1 Japanese: 241,290
2 Filipino: 234,894
3 Native Hawaiian (Kānaka Maoli): 182,120
4 Chinese (except Taiwanese): 155,687
5 Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 134,282
6 Korean: 41,689
7 Samoan: 33,272
8 Black or African American: 32,780
9 Vietnamese: 11,985
10 Guamanian or Chamorro (Chamoru): 5,455
11 Tongan: 5,263
12 Cherokee: 5,067
13 Marshallese: 4,173
Total races tallied: 1,250,430

Source: US Census

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Walkable Neighborhoods have Higher Housing Vacancy Rates per Census 2010 Data


Read More: http://www.cubitplanning.com/blog/2011/06/walkable-neighborhoods-housing-vacancy-rates-census-2010/

City Stats: http://www.cubitplanning.com/blog/2011/06/walkable-neighborhoods-housing-vacancy-rates-census-2010/

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More people buying property in walkable neighborhoods means more real estate taxes–which fund our public services. And haven’t we all been reading articles about how Gen Y loves living in dense urban areas, and how 58 percent of American would prefer to live in a neighborhood where stores are within an easy walk? Well, the Census 2010 data indicate that walkable neighborhoods have higher vacancy rates than their surrounding cities. Only Dupont Circle in DC and City Center East in Philadelphia have slightly lower vacancy rates than their surrounding cities.

- Perhaps homes for sales in walkable neighborhoods are more expensive than homes in the rest of the city. And more expensive homes were harder hit in the real estate downturn.

- “The top 20 neighborhoods are going to have extremely high densities of amenities like grocery stores, restaurants, coffeeshops, etc., so it’s not surprising to see the most chichi neighborhoods in the country on this list. Conclusions drawn about this upper echelon can’t safely be extended to the rest of country.”

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[mhays]

Wow, they're way off for Seattle. Apartments are doing much better in core districts, which is why they're getting built again, only in core neighborhoods. Condos have been overbuilt in walkable neighborhoods but much less so today vs. a year ago.

Edit: A market report just came out. As of the report date, in King and Snohomish Counties (pop 2.6), 85% of the 3,520 apartment units under construction were within Seattle (pop 0.6). Also, of the 5,605 units that started or completed design review in the quarter, 90% were in Seattle (the last one might be skewed by varying city processes).

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Census shows whites lose US majority among babies


http://www.salon.com/wires/politics/06/22/D9O1BLGG0_us_census_white_minority/

For the first time, minorities make up a majority of babies in the U.S., part of a sweeping race change and growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and predominantly minority youths that could reshape government policies. Preliminary census estimates also show the share of African-American households headed by women -- made up of mostly single mothers -- now exceeds African-American households with married couples, a sign of declining U.S. marriages overall but also continuing challenges for black youths without involved fathers.

- The findings, based on the latest government data, offer a preview of final 2010 census results being released this summer that provide detailed breakdowns by age, race and householder relationships such as same-🞵🞵🞵 couples. Demographers say the numbers provide the clearest confirmation yet of a changing social order, one in which racial and ethnic minorities will become the U.S. majority by midcentury.

- Currently, non-Hispanic whites make up just under half of all children 3 years old, which is the youngest age group shown in the Census Bureau's October 2009 annual survey, its most recent. In 1990, more than 60 percent of children in that age group were white. William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution who analyzed the data, said figures in the 2009 survey can sometimes be inexact compared with the 2010 census, which queries the entire nation. But he said when factoring in the 2010 data released so far, minorities outnumber whites among babies under age 2.

- By contrast, whites make up the vast majority of older Americans -- 80 percent of seniors 65 and older and roughly 73 percent of people ages 45-64. Many states with high percentages of white seniors also have particularly large shares of minority children, including Arizona, Nevada, California, Texas and Florida. "The recent emergence of this cultural generation gap in states with fast growth of young Hispanics has spurred heated discussions of immigration and the use of government services," Frey said.

Other findings:

--Multigenerational households composed of families with grandparents, parents and children were most common among Hispanics, particularly in California, Maryland, Illinois, Nevada and Texas, all states where they represented nearly 1 in 10 Latino households.

--Roughly 581,000, or a half percent, of U.S. households are composed of same-🞵🞵🞵 unmarried couples, representing nearly 1 in 10 households with unmarried partners. Unmarried gay couples made up the biggest shares in states in the Northeast and West, led by the District of Columbia, Oregon, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont. The largest numbers were in California and New York, which is now considering a gay marriage law.

--Minorities comprise a majority of renters in 10 states, plus the District of Columbia -- Hawaii, Texas, California, Georgia, Maryland, New Mexico, Mississippi, New Jersey, Louisiana and New York.

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[brickell]

being "white" is such a nebulous thing. I'd argue that many of those babies will be "white" by the time they grow up, indistinguishable from the average American in everything but name.

I thought maybe it was a Miami thing, but I've seen just as many anglicized Hispanics in NYC and LA.

[Ch.G, Ch.G]

Originally Posted by brickell

being "white" is such a nebulous thing. I'd argue that many of those babies will be "white" by the time they grow up, indistinguishable from the average American in everything but name.

I thought maybe it was a Miami thing, but I've seen just as many anglicized Hispanics in NYC and LA.

For sure. Another important thing to remember is that not all immigrants from Latin American countries are 'obviously' Latino; many are mestizo and could easily pass for another Mediterranean European people, and then there are those who are primarily descended from Europeans. With inter-'ethnic' families on the rise, it won't be long before Spanish surnames have the same connotations as O'Brian or Bernardi or Schmidt. That goes for all immigrant groups, I think. I mean, there was a time when Jews, for example, weren't considered 'white,' an idea that to us now seems absurd.

[BosWash316]

I actually disagree. For Miami this can definitely be the case, but for most other places I don't think so. Miami has a much more unique population demographic with it's concentration of White Latinos, such as groups of White Cubans and other White South Americans.

For the most part, the immigration now is much more heavy in mestizo populations from those same countries. Unfortunately the mestizo populations have a harder time than the whites in their own countries, so they move other places.

[BevoLJ]

Originally Posted by M II A II R II K

Walkable Neighborhoods have Higher Housing Vacancy Rates per Census 2010 Data


Read More: http://www.cubitplanning.com/blog/2011/06/walkable-neighborhoods-housing-vacancy-rates-census-2010/

City Stats: http://www.cubitplanning.com/blog/2011/06/walkable-neighborhoods-housing-vacancy-rates-census-2010/

Apartments in downtown Austin have an 96% occupancy rate. I have serious doubts it is higher than that out in Round Rock and the burbs of Austin. lol.

[Urbanguy]

And the roll out continues....

The US Census 2010 has just started to roll out data from Summary File 1 which includes more detailed Asian, Native American, Hispanic or Latino & Pacific Islander groups than the recently released Demographic Profile did. This week data for California, Delaware, Kansas, Pennsylvania and Wyoming were released. Data for Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Nebraska and North Carolina will be released next week.

NOTE: There's no data for Arab/Middle Eastern, European, West Indian or Subsaharan African groups with this release. CSAs that extend into other States are not complete until all States have been released. Also the data is for ethnic, tribe or racial group alone (not mixed) with the exception of Hispanic or Latino groups which can be of mixed race (e.g., Mestizo).

*Over 10,000 for California

California
1 Mexican: 11,423,146
2 Black or African American alone: 2,299,072
3 Filipino alone: 1,195,580
4 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 1,150,206
5 Vietnamese alone: 581,946
6 Salvadoran: 573,956
7 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 528,176
8 Korean: 451,892
9 Guatemalan: 332,737
10 Japanese alone: 272,528
11 Spaniard or Spanish: 244,753
12 Puerto Rican: 189,945
13 Nicaraguan: 100,790
14 Taiwanese alone: 96,009
15 Peruvian: 91,511
16 Cuban: 88,607
17 Hmong (🞵🞵🞵🞵) alone: 86,989
18 Cambodian (Khmer) alone: 86,244
19 Honduran: 72,795
20 Colombian: 64,416
21 Laotian alone: 58,424
22 Thai alone: 51,509
23 Pakistani alone: 46,780
24 Mexican American Indian (e.g., Nahuatl, Zapotec, Mixtec, etc) alone: 45,933
25 Argentinean: 44,410
26 Samoan alone: 40,900
27 Ecuadorian: 35,750
28 Indonesian alone: 25,398
29 Guamanian or Chamorro (Chamoru) alone: 24,299
30 Chilean: 24,006
31 Costa Rican: 22,469
32 Native Hawaiian (Kānaka Maoli) alone: 21,423
33 Cherokee (Tsalagi) alone: 20,969
34 Fijian (Itaukei) alone: 19,355
35 Tongan alone: 18,329
36 Panamanian: 17,768
37 Burmese alone: 15,035
38 Bolivian: 13,351
39 Dominican (Dominican Republic): 11,455
40 Venezuelan: 11,100
41 Apache alone: 10,803
42 Sri Lankan alone: 10,240
Total Population: 37,253,956

*Over 5,000 for PA

Pennsylvania
1 Black or African American alone: 1,377,689
2 Puerto Rican: 366,082
3 Mexican: 129,568
4 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 103,026
5 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 81,419
6 Dominican (Dominican Republic): 62,348
7 Korean alone: 40,505
8 Vietnamese alone: 39,008
9 Filipino alone: 21,948
10 Cuban: 17,930
11 Colombian: 16,525
12 Spaniard or Spanish: 15,691
13 Cambodian (Khmer) alone: 12,042
14 Guatemalan: 11,462
15 Ecuadorian: 10,680
16 Pakistani alone: 9,252
17 Salvadoran: 7,952
18 Peruvian: 7,783
19 Honduran: 7,055
20 Japanese alone: 6,492
Total Population: 12,702,379

*Over 4,000 for KS

Kansas
1 Mexican: 247,297
2 Black or African American alone: 167,864
3 Vietnamese alone: 14,015
4 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 13,848
5 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 10,517
6 Puerto Rican: 9,247
7 Cherokee (Tsalagi) alone: 5,642
8 Filipino alone: 5,545
9 Guatemalan: 5,538
10 Spaniard or Spanish: 5,343
11 Korean alone: 5,234
12 Salvadoran: 5,108
13 Laotian alone: 4,539
Total Population: 2,853,118

*Over 1,000 for DE

Delaware
1 Black or African American alone: 191,814
2 Mexican: 30,283
3 Puerto Rican: 22,533
4 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 11,424
5 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 5,923
6 Guatemalan: 5,202
7 Filipino alone: 3,276
8 Korean: 2,540
9 Dominican (Dominican Republic): 2,035
10 Spaniard or Spanish: 1,522
11 Cuban: 1,443
12 Vietnamese alone: 1,438
13 Colombian: 1,248
14 Salvadoran: 1,231
15 Pakistani alone: 1,090
Total Population: 897,934

*Over 500 for WY

Wyoming
1 Mexican: 37,719
2 Arapaho alone: 4,864
3 Black or African American alone: 4,748
4 Spaniard or Spanish: 4,313
5 Shoshone alone: 2,449
6 Puerto Rican: 1,026
7 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 1,013
8 Filipino alone: 901
9 Sioux alone: 841
10 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 589
11 Korean 508
Total Population: 563,626

[Urbanguy]

Metros

*Over 8,000 for LA

Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA
1 Mexican: 6,375,180
2 Black or African American alone: 1,245,186
3 Filipino alone: 505,578
4 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 459,318
5 Salvadoran: 428,904
6 Korean alone: 334,329
7 Vietnamese alone: 302,865
8 Guatemalan: 264,044
9 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 152,595
10 Japanese alone: 148,929
11 Spaniard or Spanish: 104,091
12 Puerto Rican: 86,695
13 Cuban: 63,292
14 Taiwanese alone: 59,373
15 Peruvian: 53,727
16 Honduran: 53,524
17 Nicaraguan: 51,293
18 Cambodian (Khmer) alone: 44,277
19 Colombian: 42,417
20 Thai alone: 33,998
21 Argentinean: 31,524
22 Ecuadorian: 28,418
23 Mexican American Indian (e.g., Nahuatl, Zapotec, Mixtec, etc) alone: 22,812
24 Samoan alone: 20,845
25 Pakistani alone: 19,869
26 Indonesian alone: 17,703
27 Costa Rican: 14,976
28 Chilean: 13,152
29 Panamanian: 9,197
30 Laotian alone: 9,032
31 Native Hawaiian (Kānaka Maoli) alone: 8,804
32 Bolivian: 8,373
33 Guamanian or Chamorro (Chamoru) alone: 8,009
Total Population: 17,877,006

*Over 5,000 for SF

San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA CSA
1 Mexican: 1,336,383
2 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 560,896
3 Black or African American alone: 484,610
4 Filipino alone: 382,950
5 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 245,685
6 Vietnamese alone: 186,225
7 Salvadoran: 98,979
8 Korean alone: 73,588
9 Japanese alone: 70,151
10 Spaniard or Spanish: 59,552
11 Guatemalan: 45,773
12 Puerto Rican: 43,164
13 Nicaraguan: 38,366
14 Taiwanese alone: 29,741
15 Peruvian: 25,982
16 Pakistani alone: 13,530
17 Cambodian (Khmer) alone: 13,175
18 Laotian alone: 12,115
19 Cuban: 11,742
20 Colombian: 11,112
21 Honduran: 10,789
22 Tongan alone: 10,130
23 Samoan alone: 10,029
24 Thai alone: 9,142
25 Fijian (Itaukei) alone: 8,216
26 Burmese alone: 7,478
27 Mexican American Indian (e.g., Nahuatl, Zapotec, Mixtec, etc) alone: 7,188
28 Argentinean: 7,021
29 Chilean: 6,029
30 Guamanian or Chamorro (Chamoru) alone: 5,887
31 Indonesian alone: 5,092
32 Native Hawaiian (Kānaka Maoli) alone: 5,064
Total Population: 7,468,390

*Over 4,000 for Philly

Philadelphia, PA CSA (excluding Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton, NJ & MD MSAs)
1 Black or African American alone: 1,042,378
2 Puerto Rican: 207,607
3 Mexican: 89,043
4 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 74,182
5 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 59,282
6 Dominican (Dominican Republic): 30,257
7 Korean alone: 30,152
8 Vietnamese alone: 26,091
9 Filipino alone: 14,139
10 Cambodian (Khmer) alone: 10,265
11 Colombian: 9,750
12 Cuban: 9,562
13 Spaniard or Spanish: 7,837
14 Guatemalan: 6,526
15 Pakistani alone: 6,501
16 Ecuadorian: 5,626
17 Salvadoran: 4,086
Total Population: 4,958,915

*Over 4,000 for SD

San Diego, CA MSA
1 Mexican: 869,868
2 Black or African American alone: 158,213
3 Filipino alone: 146,618
4 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 45,138
5 Vietnamese alone: 44,202
6 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 24,306
7 Korean alone: 20,738
8 Puerto Rican: 20,468
9 Spaniard or Spanish: 19,422
10 Japanese alone: 18,687
11 Guatemalan: 7,305
12 Laotian alone: 6,859
13 Salvadoran: 6,137
14 Cuban: 5,674
15 Guamanian or Chamorro (Chamoru) alone: 5,567
16 Colombian: 5,046
17 Cambodian (Khmer) alone: 4,924
18 Samoan alone: 4,875
19 Peruvian: 4,105
20 Taiwanese alone: 4,008
Total Population: 3,095,313

*Over 1,000 for Pitts

Pittsburgh, PA CSA
1 Black or African American alone: 200,256
2 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 14,610
3 Mexican: 11,563
4 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 10,990
5 Puerto Rican: 6,430
6 Korean alone: 4,120
7 Vietnamese alone: 2,582
8 Spaniard or Spanish: 2,366
9 Filipino alone: 2,356
10 Japanese alone: 1,463
11 Cuban: 1,405
12 Pakistani alone: 1,101
Total Population: 2,447,393

*Over 4,000 for Sac

Sacramento, CA CSA (excluding Gardnerville Ranchos, NV µSA)
1 Mexican: 400,077
2 Black or African American alone: 163,095
3 Filipino alone: 54,775
4 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 52,486
5 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 47,000
6 Vietnamese alone: 28,990
7 Hmong (🞵🞵🞵🞵) alone: 28,583
8 Spaniard or Spanish: 20,155
9 Japanese alone: 15,524
10 Puerto Rican: 13,131
11 Laotian alone: 11,342
12 Korean alone: 10,249
13 Salvadoran: 9,118
14 Fijian (Itaukei) alone: 6,245
15 Pakistani alone: 5,646
16 Guatemalan: 4,113
Total Population: 2,414,783

*Over 3,000 for Fres

Fresno, CA CSA
1 Mexican: 502,771
2 Black or African American alone: 55,152
3 Hmong (🞵🞵🞵🞵) alone: 30,791
4 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 16,454
5 Filipino alone: 10,384
6 Laotian alone: 7,125
7 Salvadoran: 6,644
8 Spaniard or Spanish: 6,238
9 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 5,890
10 Japanese alone: 5,163
11 Cambodian (Khmer) alone: 5,088
12 Mexican American Indian (e.g., Nahuatl, Zapotec, Mixtec, etc) alone: 3,436
13 Puerto Rican: 3,366
14 Vietnamese alone: 3,189
Total Population: 1,081,315

*Over 1,000 for Wich

Wichita, KS CSA
1 Mexican: 63,601
2 Black or African American alone: 49,061
3 Vietnamese alone: 9,594
4 Puerto Rican: 2,168
5 Laotian alone: 2,158
6 Asian Indian or East Indian alone: 2,066
7 Cherokee alone: 1,748
8 Chinese (except Taiwanese) alone: 1,744
9 Filipino alone: 1,454
10 Spaniard or Spanish: 1,306
11 Salvadoran: 1,251
Total Population: 659,372

[mongoXZ]

It's amazing to see the hodge-podge of ethnicities that is the United States especially California (Wow!). However I noticed that Brazilians were left out but other South American countries such as Peru, Argentina, etc were included. Was this deliberate? I would estimate between 30,000 to 50,000 in CA alone.

Thank you Urbanguy for all the data. It's very much appreciated as much as it's fascinating.