Large US City Black Populations ('21 ACS estimates)

[Cadillac]

Black people move to those cities for the black community, no where did I say the world in general finds them attractive for their black population.

your "attractive destination"remark is why i mentioned it, you bringing up LA not drawing Black americans besides business when that literally applies to those cities you mentioned.
and some nikkas are not looking to moving to the big black hubs but "smaller" cities like how californians move to vegas.

And DC proper is losing its black population to its immediate suburbs, the entire reason I said you need to look at the entire metro. There is a deep black community surrounding DC throughout most of MD, even MoCo which is considered white is 20% black, more than LA county @ 8.7% (BTW, it's the 7th blackest county in CA, the top 4 are all northern california Solano, Alameda, Sacramento and Contra Costa...yet no one calls these areas a Mecca ), and there is a decent sized black community in NOVA especially down the eastern side from Alexandria on down.

i'll concede for the moment on DC

im not arguing in favor of LA being a "black mecca i literally just said

if people dont consider LA a "black mecca" fine, i agree. but that needs to be said for every city. espescially with the rust belt cities losing their ADOS populations.

theres a reason why Atlanta has been given that title of "black mecca" Atlanta still to this day is the only major city that has had a huge black present city in the past like DC, LA, Philly, etc but unlike them

^^^ IMO only ATL is the black mecca city, population plays a part but ATL has been the most culturally influencing city out of everyone.

my thing is, everything you saying about LA, can apply to all those other cities.

California's black population has always been damn near fully concentrated in a handful of cities and immediately white, asian or mexican once you leave those cities. When we move out of our core cities (LA, Oakland, Compton), we scatter much further and lose population density much faster than black folk who move from ATL, Chi, Miami, and DC to their neighboring BLACK suburbs.

Chicago and illionis in general is losing its black population tho, its not losing them to just suburbs although that is a vital part to

As the Black population continues to drop in Chicago and Illinois, few regret their move: ‘I have peace’

On average, 8,000 black residents moved to Indiana each year from 2015 to 2019, according to the Brookings Institution. Georgia and Texas are also top destinations.

www.chicagotribune.com

And no shyt everywhere haw lower economoic tiers, but not everywhere has a community of middle-upper middle class blacks. You trying to talk to me like i havent LIVED in these places. The idea of who a black person is out here in Oakland is completely different than in DC. I'm treated very different in my day to day life out here where black people are the monolithically seen as lower class as opposed to DC where there is more economic stratification and decent sized black professional class

Large Black-White Disparities in Poverty and Income Persisted in 2021

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www.dcfpi.org

• The share of Black people in DC living below the poverty line in 2021 rose to 27.7 percent from 21.6 percent in 2019.

im not trying to belittle your experience, but something like this is ridiculous when most cities with blacks are lower tier. DC is starting to become the same to. Add in gentrification, rise in immigrant population and well... yeah.

and the microaggressions are gonna be felt everywhere albeit not experienced by you, but by others espescially with the wealth gap widening.

 

[Cadillac]

and they're not Black Meccas

so why you seem to love to dikkride LA and focus solely on them having a majority nonblack pop?

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

your "attractive destination"remark is why i mentioned it, you bringing up LA not drawing Black americans besides business when that literally applies to those cities you mentioned.
and some nikkas are not looking to moving to the big black hubs but "smaller" cities like how californians move to vegas.


i'll concede for the moment on DC

im not arguing in favor of LA being a "black mecca i literally just said


^^^ IMO only ATL is the black mecca city, population plays a part but ATL has been the most culturally influencing city out of everyone.

my thing is, everything you saying about LA, can apply to all those other cities.



Chicago and illionis in general is losing its black population tho, its not losing them to just suburbs although that is a vital part to

As the Black population continues to drop in Chicago and Illinois, few regret their move: ‘I have peace’

On average, 8,000 black residents moved to Indiana each year from 2015 to 2019, according to the Brookings Institution. Georgia and Texas are also top destinations.

www.chicagotribune.com

Large Black-White Disparities in Poverty and Income Persisted in 2021

[…]

www.dcfpi.org

im not trying to belittle your experience, but something like this is ridiculous when most cities with blacks are lower tier. DC is starting to become the same to. Add in gentrification, rise in immigrant population and well... yeah.

and the microaggressions are gonna be felt everywhere albeit not experienced by you, but by others espescially with the wealth gap widening.

you keep harping on DC proper when I'm talking the whole region. the black upper middle class doesn't live in DC proper like that, it costs too much compared to what you get

edit: No one would go to the DMV and be like nah, this aint the black mecca, only ATL is

aight, i'm out...yall enjoy LA

 

[Cadillac]

you keep harping on DC proper when I'm talking the whole region. the black upper middle class doesn't live in DC proper like that, it costs too much compared to what you get

edit: No one would go to the DMV and be like nah, this aint the black mecca, only ATL is

aight, i'm out...yall enjoy LA

@bold: fine if you say so, i really dont care that much to keep arguing about this

@edit: DMV dont have the cultural influence ATL, i shouldnt have to spell it out for you. ATL's culture has shaped black american culture across the country and the world.

ATL >> DMV in cultural influence. hence why ATL is the king of this department. Mind you i dont care for ATL much nor am interested in it. but its undisputable.

Hence why i say ATL is the Black mecca. I already said that population dont mean everything, part of what makes a black mecca is culture and the impact the city has and ATL has all that.

DC/DMV don't have that reshaping cultural impact like ATL, unless you can prove me wrong.

@2nd bold: im good enjoying my city, which is where most of you cali nikkas are moving to

 

[JadeB]

We had a civil war fought over Black people, the 13th through 15th Amendments had to do with Black people. The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968. The 24th Amendment abolishing the poll tax. Even indirect ones like the Immigration Act of 1965 or laws and policies with negative effects like the War on Drugs policy. They all either directly in response to an issue that the Black American community were dealing with or inspired by the Black struggle. Also until very recently and still is to an extent, politicians relied heavily on winning the Black vote. No other racial or ethnic minority had the amount of laws passed or even a civil war fought in the name of, on behalf, or influenced by them.

Just explained it

 

[Collateral]

That Cadillac guys remains to be a shyt tier poster going over half a decade now. I don’t know why anybody wastes their time with him, he’s bushed every other day on here. nikka not even from Cali but in here dikkriding smh

 

[InGodWeTrust]

I’m interested in Tampa.

 

[Cadillac]

That Cadillac guys remains to be a shyt tier poster going over half a decade now. I don’t know why anybody wastes their time with him, he’s bushed every other day on here. nikka not even from Cali but in here dikkriding smh

I already said LA aint a "black mecca" you illiterate baffoon, but neither are these other cities you nikkas inputing like NY, DC, Chicago

I am only a "shyt tier poster" to you bytch ass impersonators , shytting on yall is the only reason i get bushed because you pussies run to the mods to report someone

 

[UberEatsDriver]

That Cadillac guys remains to be a shyt tier poster going over half a decade now. I don’t know why anybody wastes their time with him, he’s bushed every other day on here. nikka not even from Cali but in here dikkriding smh

The dude gotta be slow in real life

 

[Black Magisterialness]

If you think we are 17% of the population means you think there's a variance of roughly 16 million Black Americans who aren't reporting, which is huge and would be about 27.6% of a hypothetical ~56.4 million Black American population...

I just don't think it's realistic that over a quarter of us as a community aren't reporting or aren't reporting accurately. We aren't that negligent...

There are a number of black people who didn't report or didn't accurately identify, and I also think there's some judicial prejudice and fudging of the numbers, bit I don't think that amounts to more than maybe, 2 million people? Add in those two million and that takes is from about 12.3% as stated to 12.9%; it isn't far fetched to me to double that number but I don't at all think we are anywhere near non-reporting or misidentifying black people reaching double digits (10 million)...

Perhaps not that many. But I think you underestimate how many people actively think the census is bad, don't want to be counted, and or never get around to it. Not to mention children.


So perhaps not 10-12 million but I could see 3 or 4. Especially if you add it all up based on the population centers. 200k in LA, 200k in Chicago, 80k in Detroit, 300k in Houston or Atlanta....the shyt adds up fast. Not counting Rural black folks in the south either.

 

[Solomon Lurke]

Growing up in Detroit really skewed my perspective on the country. Was damn near a shell shock when I started traveling and moving around in places and really realized Black people were the minority damn near everywhere else.

 

[Who Not How]

The dude gotta be slow in real life

He clearly hasn't spent significant time in the DMV or know it's cultural impact on Black America. Howard, Bowie and Morgan State being close to each other makes the area a powerhouse just off that.

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

Explore Census Data

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This thread is going to be all-encompassing, later highlighting metropolitan areas, but I'm going to start with the city municipal population first...

New York 1,795,113

Chicago 779,304

Philadelphia 625,772
Houston 510,280

Detroit 488,262
Memphis 391,951
Baltimore 349,358
Los Angeles 323,341
Dallas 301,499
Charlotte 294,703
Jacksonville 293,066
Washington 284,101
Columbus 261,987

Indianapolis 246,971
Atlanta 236,812
Milwaukee 219,192
New Orleans 209,219
Nashville 177,859
Fort Worth 177,747
Cleveland 175,532
Newark 149,309
Louisville 148,348
Boston 139,467
Kansas City 135,741
Birmingham 134,746
St Louis 128,470
Cincinnati 125,737
Raleigh 125,256
Greensboro 124,674
Baton Rouge 118,647
Phoenix 116,969
Durham 103,646

Buffalo 99,651
San Antonio 97,274
Oakland 97,176
Oklahoma City 96,282
Richmond 95,174
Norfolk 93,801
Arlington 88,770
Tampa 84,764
San Diego 84,278
Virginia Beach 83,754
Little Rock 82,011
Winston-Salem 81,604
Rochester 80,873
Minneapolis 80,379
Las Vegas 79,555

Orlando 72,960
Austin 69,421
Pittsburgh 68,799
Sacramento 68,780
Denver 65,455
Miami 62,904
Tulsa 61,299
Omaha 59,451
Jersey City 57,921
Long Beach 56,096
Dayton 54,616
St Petersburg 54,222
Columbia 53,091
Fort Lauderdale 51,957
Seattle 50,640

St Paul 49,765
Bridgeport 49,692
Hartford 44,010
New Haven 43,226
San Francisco 41,575
Fresno 39,749
Stockton 38,010
Portland 37,187
Grand Rapids 36,127
Knoxville 30,631
Charleston 30,019
Albany 28,895
Colorado Springs 28,553
Bakersfield 28,533
San Jose 28,521
Tucson 27,705
San Bernardino 27,553
Worcester 27,181
Providence 27,126

Tacoma 22,578
El Paso 22,388
Riverside 19,036
Albuquerque 17,441
Allentown 13,980

Honolulu 5874
Salt Lake City 5413

Boise 4274

You left a good number of cities out. Mobile Huntsville and Montgomery Al are all damn near majority black, I know personally that Mobile has over 90,000 black people in it

 

[banner34]

it’s crazy to see that cities like Indianapolis & Columbus has more black folks than Atlanta

Atlanta the city is small, it’s the metro area that makes atl big.

 

[murksiderock]

You left a good number of cities out. Mobile Huntsville and Montgomery Al are all damn near majority black, I know personally that Mobile has over 90,000 black people in it

My cut off line was principal cities of 750,000+ metropolitan areas. The cities that I didn't mention are smaller than that, that's all. I was really mentioning cities of size but yes, there are smaller cities especially in the South that have black populations above many larger cities...