Black Demographic Growth by city, 2010s

[JadeB]

What’s the best city to move to? I’m between Seattle, Houston, Denver, Columbus, Atlanta, or Baltimore?

Spent my teen years in Columbus. It was dope. Lots of jobs in Ohio State University and the many local hospitals. The food scene could be better honestly though.

 

[Music Fiend]

Austin Texas?

What the hell that gotta be a damn lie! All I see is black folk moving OUT.

Yall keep thinking austin is all white folk. the DMA is having a good bit of black growth.

Round rock, hutto, and other areas east of i-35 are leading that charge. Areas are fairly cheap compared to other major cities, you can move between cities easily, and theres tech jobs in austin.

I grew up there so seeing the city change is exciting but these reports are clearly DMA

 

[daemonova]

 

[Rawtid]

I wonder if decline is due to death, leaving or being displaced to suburbs.

 

[Grand Conde]

Only 12.3% of the American population is black...?

 

[BigMan]

I wasn't clear initially on why I listed the cities I did...

Every city I listed is above the threshold of 800,000 metropolitan population, or will be in 2020 Census. The Census Bureau classifies "major" cities as central cities that anchor a 2-million person metro or more...

They don't have an official designation for mid-sized cities but I feel comfortable with 800,000 being the threshold. Again, that's a personal thing, but its consistent with every city I listed, they are all 800,000+ metropolitan population...

Any city with a metro pop below 800,000 is a small city to me. Greensboro is close but won't cross 800,000 until the early '20s, but yes, it has a lot of black people. It is a small city, though, at least in my opinion...



It amazes me how few people on here realized the reverse migration is an actual thing that's been in effect for awhile now...



True dat...

Black Tidewater has a weak middle class though, and almost no black wealth of significance. Black Tidewater us overrun with crime and a lack of political and cultural clout compared to virtually anywhere else in the country with 500,000+ blacks (~520,000 blacks in the VB metro)...

I'm from The Beach, by the way...

NPN, Hampton, and Portsmouth are all losing total population. Blacks of reasonable means are leaving and the ones staying behind are poorer, uneducated, and lack the mobility. Black Nfk is declining sharply in much the same way...

To be very honest, I wouldn't recommend anyone to move to Tidewater over Richmond. Literally everything within the black infrastructure is greater in Rich than it is in Tidewater...

Very interesting about the tidewater

Blacks are really being pushed out of PG?

More like white/Hispanic/Asians are realizing that living in PG isn't the worse thing ever and some black folks are deciding to move to adjacent counties.

 

[KOohbt]

True dat...

Black Tidewater has a weak middle class though, and almost no black wealth of significance. Black Tidewater us overrun with crime and a lack of political and cultural clout compared to virtually anywhere else in the country with 500,000+ blacks (~520,000 blacks in the VB metro)...

I'm from The Beach, by the way...

NPN, Hampton, and Portsmouth are all losing total population. Blacks of reasonable means are leaving and the ones staying behind are poorer, uneducated, and lack the mobility. Black Nfk is declining sharply in much the same way...

To be very honest, I wouldn't recommend anyone to move to Tidewater over Richmond. Literally everything within the black infrastructure is greater in Rich than it is in Tidewater...

Ehh the 757 is bigger than rva metro. The principal cities Norfolk and Richmond have the same black household income. It's all preference weather you wanna live by beaches or not

I choose beaches lol

 

[hustlemania]

Greensboro 40.5% (119,500) Way bigger black pop than half those cities

Good haul. One thing of note here(Had two thing to point out but forgot the other)....

This is in regard to "major cities" there are a lot of midsize and all small cities/counties are not listed above.

Example:

• Savannah GA is 54.7% African American
• Mobile AL is 36.1% African American

U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Savannah city, Georgia; Mobile County, Alabama

...but neither is listed. As noted above there are other small things to be taken account of but they skip my mind right now. That said, carry on

noticed Winston-Salem isnt on there.. its 34.7%..

 

[Spade]

@murksiderock

Do you have any charts for states? Just want to see if Georgia is leading the state for black growth since Atlanta doesn’t seem to be on the top of it based on your research.

Last I checked, Texas and Florida both have larger growth than Georgia so far this decade. I don’t know if factfinder has updated.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Last I checked, Texas and Florida both have larger growth than Georgia so far this decade. I don’t know if factfinder has updated.

Thanks.

 

[THE MACHINE]

Blacks are really being pushed out of PG?

Waldorf/Brandywine are booming but PG is still holding at 65-67% black. PG County has 980k people too, compared to 160k in Charles County. There has been an influx of hispanic and white/hispanic so the numbers may drop a bit on the 2020 Census but the eye test tells me a lot of the hispanic boom replaced the remaining white people that went into DC and went east of the Bay. Im estimating
63-65% Black
17-19% Hispanic
13% White
4% other

 

[murksiderock]

Ehh the 757 is bigger than rva metro. The principal cities Norfolk and Richmond have the same black household income. It's all preference weather you wanna live by beaches or not

I choose beaches lol

757 has the bigger metro but Richmond is the biggest and most major city anywhere in Virginia...

Richmond has a much stronger black professional class, and a larger network of black businesses and events that cater specifically to black people...

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

Only 12.3% of the American population is black...?

How many Black people do you think live in this White country?

 

[Grand Conde]

How many Black people do you think live in this White country?

At least 25%.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

At least 25%.

Naw.