The US Census Bureau thread

[Urbanguy]

^There are also Tuvaluans (mainly men) & some I-Kiribati in Germany as well. I think many of the Tuvaluans in Germany are employed as sailors but i'm not sure if they are permanent settlers or just go there for work part of the year.

I can't wait to see how large the Tongan, Samoan, Fijian, Hawaiian & other Pacific Islander communities have grown & how they compare in size to places like New Zealand & Australia.

[dktshb]

Originally Posted by Urbanguy

A closer look at the 35 largest CSAs or MSAs (over 1.7 million) according to racial make-up:

New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA
White alone: 13,595,960
Black or African American alone: 3,727,105
American Indian and Alaska Native alone: 102,349
Asian alone: 2,008,906
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone: 9,971
Some Other Race alone: 1,944,165
Two or More Races: 697,193
Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 4,790,542
Total: 22,085,649

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA CSA
White alone: 9,821,469
Black or African American alone: 1,245,186
American Indian and Alaska Native alone: 145,427
Asian alone: 2,199,186
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone: 50,835
Some Other Race alone: 3,604,422
Two or More Races: 810,481
Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 8,028,831
Total: 17,877,006

Interesting that NY with over 4 million more people than LA has smaller numbers of everyone but white and black people.

[pesto]

I assume that this has already been discussed, but why are there 3.6M "some other race alone" in LA? What race are we talking about? Martian? Scientologist?

[urbanactivist]

Originally Posted by dktshb

Interesting that NY with over 4 million more people than LA has smaller numbers of everyone but white and black people.

LA is a much younger metro though. NYC was founded back when the country was exclusively White. A few Blacks were there thanks to slavery, and Native Americans weren't really integrated into that society. But in LA, there's always been a rooted community of people other than Whites or Blacks.

BTW, I always put multi-racial or other when I fill out forms. Culturally, I grew up as a Black person, but my family is actually Creole (which in itself is a whole mess of stuff). But people always mistake me for Hispanic, or Pacific Islander.

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by urbanactivist

LA is a much younger metro though. NYC was founded back when the country was exclusively White. A few Blacks were there thanks to slavery, and Native Americans weren't really integrated into that society. But in LA, there's always been a rooted community of people other than Whites or Blacks.

BTW, I always put multi-racial or other when I fill out forms. Culturally, I grew up as a Black person, but my family is actually Creole (which in itself is a whole mess of stuff). But people always mistake me for Hispanic, or Pacific Islander.

Are you kidding? Los Angeles used to be knows as "Iowa on the Pacific" because it was so damn white.

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/02...ity-salam-1-2/

The United States feels less like a European offshoot and more like a Latin-style hybrid. Immigration from Mexico has changed the look and feel of entire cities and regions. During the first half of the 20th century, Los Angeles was known as "Iowa-on-the-Pacific," a description that would strike us as ridiculous. Today’s L.A. is a sprawling Latin-Anglo-Asian metropolis that leads the global entertainment industry because it is a deeply global city that speaks to the fantasies of Mexico City, Tehran and Tokyo all at the same time.

[tech12]

Yeah California cities used to be amazingly white. I can only find stats for Bay Area cities right now though:

in 1950:
San Jose was 85.5% non-Hispanic white
San Francisco was 85.4% non-Hispanic white
Oakland was 81.2% non-Hispanic white

in 1940:
San Francisco was 0.8% black, with a total of 4,846 black people.
Oakland was 2.8% black, with a total of 8,462 black people.

source: http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/

so all three cities have more than halved their white populations (as a percentage) over the past 60 years.

[photoLith]

Im sure this was posted before but I just found it and its a crazy awesome map with the 2010 census data.

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map?ref=us

[SLO]

Originally Posted by Urbanguy

^There are also Tuvaluans (mainly men) & some I-Kiribati in Germany as well. I think many of the Tuvaluans in Germany are employed as sailors but i'm not sure if they are permanent settlers or just go there for work part of the year.

I can't wait to see how large the Tongan, Samoan, Fijian, Hawaiian & other Pacific Islander communities have grown & how they compare in size to places like New Zealand & Australia.

I wonder if part of it for the Tongans is there is some German lineage among several Tongan family lines. My family line the Sanfts are Tongan of course, but the name is of German decent. Then there are the Mann's and Wolfgramms as well......

[dimondpark]

Originally Posted by SLO

I wonder if part of it for the Tongans is there is some German lineage among several Tongan family lines. My family line the Sanfts are Tongan of course, but the name is of German decent. Then there are the Mann's and Wolfgramms as well......

Ha'alaufuli people are the coolest ever.

[M II A II R II K]

Census shock result of flawed estimates


April 27, 2011

By Johnny Edwards and Craig Schneider




Read More: http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/cens...of-926273.html

How do 121,000 people disappear into thin air? That, in essence, is what happened between 2009, when the U.S. Census Bureau made its latest population estimate for the city of Atlanta, and 2010, when the census performed its actual once-a-decade count. It’s a huge deal, because it threatens to rob the city and Fulton County of millions of dollars and some of their political muscle. Even the state could take a financial hit. Most federal programs — for transportation, health care, policing and social services — allocate money based partly on population figures. Every person counted by the census translates to $2,000 a year in federal funds, according to an analysis by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

At that rate, Atlanta’s phantom people took $242 million a year with them when they vanished, in addition to some of Atlanta and Fulton County’s seats in Congress and the Legislature. Fulton County and the cities within the county could lose millions of dollars that are needed to serve our citizens,” the chairman of the County Commission, John Eaves, said in a written statement. The sources of the discrepancy are complex and still very much in dispute. But an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation identified several factors that clearly played a part.

Some responsibility rests with the city and county themselves, because they worked to drive up the census estimates in 2005 and 2006. They succeeded because the Census Bureau failed to push back. In addition, the census estimates understated the impact of the Great Recession on Atlanta and Fulton County. “We now know that we can improve that process of estimating the population,” U.S. Census Director Robert Groves said in an AJC editorial board meeting last week. The gap between the 2009 census estimate of Atlanta’s population (541,000) and the count (420,000) was 22 percent — the worst discrepancy among the nation’s major cities. Only one city, Detroit, had a similar discrepancy. No others were nearly as far off the mark.

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Atlanta demographers forecast 538,460 people in the 2010 count, but the official number came back 420,003.

[SD_Phil]

^That's a sensible reply that (non-sarcastically) probably explains most of the problem.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by photolitherland

Im sure this was posted before but I just found it and its a crazy awesome map with the 2010 census data.

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map?ref=us

Man, I could spend hours here. Great find, I think.

[photoLith]

Yes, its the most kick ass map Ive ever found. Its so detailed if you zoom in. Ive already spent hours and hours on it.

[LMich]

I actually thought I'd posted that pages ago, but can't remember. I know I did in the downtown sticky.

[SD_Phil]

Originally Posted by photolitherland

Yes, its the most kick ass map Ive ever found. Its so detailed if you zoom in. Ive already spent hours and hours on it.

Hot damn I didn't think to zoom in. AWESOME!

[plinko]

Oh wow....(an hour later)...nice map!

[mind field]

yes! best map ever!!

[BevoLJ]

Originally Posted by photolitherland

Ive already spent hours and hours on it.

I think it is safe to say we all know exactly what you mean, and have been doing the same.

Such a great map!

[Urbanguy]

The Census Bureau Released 2010 Census Demographic Profiles for the District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia today. Census Demographic Profiles for Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Puerto Rico and Wisconsin will be released next week. Here are some specific details of select ethnic, Hispanic or Latino groups that have been released so far.

BTW, I've also included data from 2000 for the sake of comparison which is to the right.

District of Columbia 2010 |-| 2000

Asian Indian alone: 5,214 <:: 2,845
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 5,231 <:: 3,734
Filipino alone: 2,690 <:: 2,228
Japanese alone: 1,172 <:: 1,117
Korean alone: 2,290 <:: 1,095
Vietnamese alone: 1,567 <:: 1,903
Native Hawaiian alone: 75 <:: 138
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 111 <:: 62
Samoan alone: 29 <:: 51
Mexican: 8,507 <:: 5,098
Puerto Rican: 3,129 <:: 2,328
Cuban: 1,789 <:: 1,101
Total population: 601,723 <:: 572,059

Florida 2010 |-| 2000

Asian Indian alone: 128,735 <:: 70,740
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 72,248 <:: 46,368
Filipino alone: 90,223 <:: 54,310
Japanese alone: 13,224 <:: 10,897
Korean alone: 26,205 <:: 19,139
Vietnamese alone: 58,470 <:: 33,190
Native Hawaiian alone: 2,809 <:: 2,131
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 3,747 <:: 2,319
Samoan alone: 1,153 <:: 1,232
Mexican: 629,718 <:: 363,925
Puerto Rican: 847,550 <:: 482,027
Cuban: 1,213,438 <:: 833,120
Total population: 18,801,310 <:: 15,982,378

*The Indian population has grown quite a bit in Florida as well as the Chinese, Vietnamese & Filipino populations but are still low for such a large state. The Mexican & Puerto Rican populations have also grown a lot since 2000.

Kentucky 2010 |-| 2000

Asian Indian alone: 12,501 <:: 6,771
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 9,051 <:: 5,397
Filipino alone: 5,188 <:: 3,106
Japanese alone: 4,124 <:: 3,683
Korean alone: 4,917 <:: 3,818
Vietnamese alone: 5,046 <:: 3,596
Native Hawaiian alone: 541 <:: 338
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 866 <:: 403
Samoan alone: 368 <:: 327
Mexican: 82,110 <:: 31,385
Puerto Rican: 11,454 <:: 6,469
Cuban: 9,323 <:: 3,516
Total population: 4,339,367 <:: 4,041,769

*The Mexican population grew big time in Kentucky since 2000.

Maine 2010 |-| 2000

Asian Indian alone: 1,959 <:: 1,021
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 3,514 <:: 2,034
Filipino alone: 1,639 <:: 1,159
Japanese alone: 584 <:: 616
Korean alone: 1,144 <:: 875
Vietnamese alone: 1,713 <:: 1,323
Native Hawaiian alone: 115 <:: 90
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 67 <:: 70
Samoan alone: 67 <:: 109
Mexican: 5,134 <:: 2,756
Puerto Rican: 4,377 <:: 2,275
Cuban: 783 <:: 478
Total population: 1,328,361 <:: 1,274,923

Massachusetts 2010 |-| 2000

Asian Indian alone: 77,177 <:: 43,801
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 122,957 <:: 84,392
Filipino alone: 12,309 <:: 8,273
Japanese alone: 9,224 <:: 10,539
Korean alone: 24,110 <:: 17,369
Vietnamese alone: 42,915 <:: 33,962
Native Hawaiian alone: 520 <:: 562
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 671 <:: 529
Samoan alone: 210 <:: 476
Mexican: 38,379 <:: 22,288
Puerto Rican: 266,125 <:: 199,207
Cuban: 11,306 <:: 8,867
Total population: 6,547,629 <:: 6,349,097

*The Chinese population finally surpassed the 100,000 mark in Mass!

Michigan 2010 |-| 2000

Asian Indian alone: 77,132 <:: 54,631
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 44,496 <:: 33,189
Filipino alone: 22,047 <:: 17,377
Japanese alone: 10,911 <:: 11,288
Korean alone: 24,186 <:: 20,886
Vietnamese alone: 16,787 <:: 13,673
Native Hawaiian alone: 753 <:: 734
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 521 <:: 622
Samoan alone: 359 <:: 505
Mexican: 317,903 <:: 220,769
Puerto Rican: 37,267 <:: 26,941
Cuban: 9,922 <:: 7,219
Total population: 9,883,640 <:: 9,938,444

Mississippi 2010 |-| 2000

Asian Indian alone: 5,494 <:: 3,827
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 4,474 <:: 3,099
Filipino alone: 3,562 <:: 2,608
Japanese alone: 807 <:: 766
Korean alone: 1,537 <:: 1,334
Vietnamese alone: 7,025 <:: 5,387
Native Hawaiian alone: 252 <:: 197
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 560 <:: 213
Samoan alone: 135 <:: 157
Mexican: 52,459 <:: 21,616
Puerto Rican: 5,888 <:: 2,881
Cuban: 2,063 <:: 1,508
Total population: 2,967,297 <:: 2,844,658

*Lots of growth in the Mexican population but still a state that is very low in diversity IMO.

New Mexico 2010 |-| 2000

Asian Indian alone: 4,550 <:: 3,104
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 5,729 <:: 3,979
Filipino alone: 4,963 <:: 2,888
Japanese alone: 2,208 <:: 1,964
Korean alone: 2,423 <:: 1,791
Vietnamese alone: 4,726 <:: 3,274
Native Hawaiian alone: 660 <:: 498
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 420 <:: 363
Samoan alone: 302 <:: 290
Mexican: 590,890 <:: 330,049
Puerto Rican: 7,964 <:: 4,488
Cuban: 4,298 <:: 2,588
Total population: 2,059,179 <:: 1,819,046

North Dakota 2010 |-| 2000

Asian Indian alone: 1,543 <:: 822
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 1,515 <:: 606
Filipino alone: 924 <:: 643
Japanese alone: 276 <:: 186
Korean alone: 609 <:: 411
Vietnamese alone: 640 <:: 478
Native Hawaiian alone: 88 <:: 52
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 65 <:: 30
Samoan alone: 49 <:: 52
Mexican: 9,223 <:: 4,295
Puerto Rican: 987 <:: 507
Cuban: 260 <:: 250
Total population: 672,591 <:: 642,200

Rhode Island 2010 |-| 2000

Asian Indian alone: 4,653 <:: 2,942
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 6,860 <:: 4,974
Filipino alone: 2,621 <:: 2,062
Japanese alone: 639 <:: 784
Korean alone: 2,138 <:: 1,560
Vietnamese alone: 1,326 <:: 952
Native Hawaiian alone: 96 <:: 114
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 232 <:: 248
Samoan alone: 40 <:: 80
Mexican: 9,090 <:: 5,881
Puerto Rican: 34,979 <:: 25,422
Cuban: 1,640 <:: 1,128
Total population: 1,052,567 <:: 1,048,319

South Carolina 2010 |-| 2000

Asian Indian alone: 15,941 <:: 8,356
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 9,686 <:: 5,967
Filipino alone: 10,053 <:: 6,423
Japanese alone: 2,413 <:: 2,448
Korean alone: 4,876 <:: 3,665
Vietnamese alone: 6,801 <:: 4,248
Native Hawaiian alone: 570 <:: 391
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 1,046 <:: 489
Samoan alone: 225 <:: 277
Mexican: 138,358 <:: 52,871
Puerto Rican: 26,493 <:: 12,211
Cuban: 5,955 <:: 2,875
Total population: 4,625,364 <:: 4,012,012

*The Mexican & Puerto Rican populations have grown a lot in SC since 2000 -- same for TN.

Tennessee 2010 |-| 2000

Asian Indian alone: 23,900 <:: 12,835
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 15,415 <:: 9,426
Filipino alone: 9,247 <:: 5,426
Japanese alone: 3,962 <:: 4,304
Korean alone: 9,818 <:: 7,395
Vietnamese alone: 10,033 <:: 7,007
Native Hawaiian alone: 771 <:: 539
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 1,507 <:: 696
Samoan alone: 516 <:: 544
Mexican: 186,615 <:: 77,372
Puerto Rican: 21,060 <:: 10,303
Cuban: 7,773 <:: 3,695
Total population: 6,346,105 <:: 5,689,283

West Virginia 2010 |-| 2000

Asian Indian alone: 3,304 <:: 2,856
Chinese (incl. Taiwanese) alone: 2,719 <:: 1,878
Filipino alone: 1,939 <:: 1,495
Japanese alone: 586 <:: 887
Korean alone: 1,039 <:: 857
Vietnamese alone: 901 <:: 379
Native Hawaiian alone: 141 <:: 111
Guamanian or Chamorro alone: 80 <:: 87
Samoan alone: 51 <:: 79
Mexican: 9,704 <:: 4,347
Puerto Rican: 3,701 <:: 1,609
Cuban: 764 <:: 453
Total population: 1,852,994 <:: 1,808,344

Not many surprises here, although, the growth of the Puerto Rican population in SC, TN & KY is quite an interesting trend. I've also noticed a decline in the Japanese alone population in a few of these states which makes me wonder if places that have large Japanese populations like California, Hawaii, Washington & New York have also experienced a decline?

**Also the populations alone mean that they do not include those that are of mixed races**

[M II A II R II K]

Young adults are responsible for most of D.C.’s growth in past decade


By Carol Morello, Dan Keating and Steve Hendrix, Published: May 5

Read More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...y.html?hpid=z3

Infographic: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...n/census/2010/

People in their 20s and early 30s now make up almost a third of the District’s population, new census figures show, and were responsible for almost all of the city’s growth in the past 10 years. The surge of young people reflects the city’s growing allure to college graduates, who come to take advantage of the strong job market and help transform neighborhoods into lively centers of condominiums, clubs and coffee shops. The District also experienced an increase in adults in their late 50s and early 60s during the past decade. At the same time, the number of children younger than 15 dropped by a fifth. But the biggest change was the spike in the number of young adults.

About 190,000 of the city’s 600,000 residents are between the ages of 20 and 34, a 23 percent jump. The 35,000 additional people in that age group fueled the city’s entire population gain between 2000 and 2010. They did not settle evenly around the city. The increase was steepest in the wards that encompass Capitol Hill, the Northeast, downtown, Shaw and Logan Circle. The growth among young adults was negligible in the city’s poorest neighborhoods and in its most expensive. The census figures could not be broken down by race. Demographers and urban experts said the census numbers confirm what is readily evident in Washington’s crowded sidewalk cafes and bike lanes.

“This reflects the resurgence of the city over the decade,” said Alice M. Rivlin, who was chairwoman of the D.C. Financial Control Board. “It’s clearly become a more lively place, with more restaurants, more theaters, more things young people and empty nesters like to do in cities.” People such as Yuuke Shinomiya. When he came to the District six years ago from Ohio to take an internship on the Hill, most of the people he arrived with were gone after two years. He intended to follow but stayed for a job with a medical association and became entranced by the city.

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The number of young people in the District grew — especially in wards 1 and 6 — more than the city’s total population did.