[dimondpark]

Foreign Born Residents as Perentage of Total Population, 2005
20.0% or higher(1 Million+ Metros in Bold)

1 Miami-Ft Lauderdale-Miami Beach, FL 36.5%
2 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 35.6%
3 El Centro, CA 34.7%
4 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA 34.7%
5 Salinas, CA 30.4%
6 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 29.5%
7 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX 29.0%
8 Laredo, TX 28.6%
9 New York-Northern NJ-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA 27.9%
10 El Paso, TX 27.1%
11 Merced, CA 26.0%
12 Brownsville-Harligen, TX 24.8%
13Yuma, AZ 24.2%
14 Stockton, CA 23.5%
15 San Diego, CA 23.4%
16 Fresno, CA 22.6%
17 Visalia-Porterville, CA 22.3%
18 Naples-Marco Island, FL 21.8%
19 Santa Barbara-Santa Maria, CA 21.8%
20 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA 21.6%
21 Houston-Sugarland-Baytown, TX 21.4%
22 Hanford-Corcoran, CA 20.7%
23 Oxnard-Ventura, CA 20.7%
24 Bakersfield, CA 20.3%
25 Modesto, CA 20.3%
26 Gainesville, GA 20.1%

All Metros can be accessed through the link below...

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-context=gct&-ds_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_&-CONTEXT=gct&-mt_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_GCT0501_US12&-tree_id=305&-redoLog=false&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=&-format=US-35&-_lang=en

[mhays]

It would be interesting to see a list based on residents from other continents, not mostly from neighboring countries.

[dimondpark]

It would be interesting to see a list based on residents from other continents, not mostly from neighboring countries.

I know...Canadians are totally skewing California's stats:D

[brickell]

Naples is a little surprising, but with a huge agricultural community, Immokalee, in the county, not that much so. Time included it in it's profile of illegal immigration last week.

Even excluding Cubans, Mexicans and Canadians, Miami would still have a very high percentage of foreign born. Do you want to throw out the South American's too?

[mhays]

Sort the info any way you want.

[GREGGYMIAMI305]

its no suprise Miami's on top

[LMich]

Edit

[Minato Ku]

It is less than I expected
Wow if Paris metro was in USA in would be in the Top 25 . :cool:

[SHiRO]

Yeah, so would Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

[furrycanuck]

Yeah, so would Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

So would Toronto, Vancouver, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Windsor, Abbotsford, and Calgary.

[LMich]

Let's see how many more non-U.S. cities we can mention?

[bgwah]

This is the list for Washington State:
19.9 - Yakima
16.4 - Moses Lake
15.3 - Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue (9.0 in Tacoma, 17.2 in Seattle-Bellevue-Everett)
12.9 - Wenatchee
12.8 - Kennewick-Richland-Pasco
11.8 - Mount Vernon-Anacortes
11.5 - Bellingham
7.5 - Olypmia
6.8 - Bremerton-Silverdale
6.5 - Oak Harbor
4.8 - Aberdeen
4.5 - Spokane
4.4 - Centralia
4.1 - Longview
3.7 - Port Angeles


I thought Kennewick-Pasco-Richland would've been a lot higher.

[dktshb]

It would be interesting to see a list based on residents from other continents, not mostly from neighboring countries. Yeah, this list is so insignificant... none of those cities could possibly be near the top of that more substantive list. :rolleyes:

[fflint]

So would Toronto, Vancouver, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Windsor, Abbotsford, and Calgary.
Do we consider "Abbotsford" comparable with the New York City megalopolis, really?

[StethJeff]

Here's what the BBC reports:

Miami tops 'foreign-born' cities (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3898795.stm)

Miami has the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world, a United Nations report says. Some 59% of people in the city were not born in the US, the UN Development Programme report said.

The city is home to many Cubans, as well as migrants from the Caribbean and South America.

The report said Canada's Toronto had the second-highest proportion of foreign-born citizens (44%), while Los Angeles was a close third with 41%.

Soaring numbers

Another two North American cities - Canada's Vancouver (37%) and New York (36%) - made it into the top five, the report said.

Outside North America, the town-state of Singapore scored highest (33%), followed by Australia's Sydney (31%), Abidjan (30%) in Ivory Coast, London (28%) and Paris (23%).

The report said that due to globalisation, numbers of migrants had soared in the last decade, particularly in high-income countries in Europe and North America, and in Australia.

It said some people felt their identity was being threatened by so many foreigners, and it urged the promotion of cultural diversity as the key to development and stability.

[MonkeyRonin]

The report said Canada's Toronto had the second-highest proportion of foreign-born citizens (44%), while Los Angeles was a close third with 41%.

Another two North American cities - Canada's Vancouver (37%) and New York (36%) - made it into the top five, the report said.

For Toronto that 44% (should be 43% actually) is for the CMA, the city proper was 49% foreign born in 2001. Not sure about Vancouver, but I'd imagine its pretty much the same story.

Do we consider "Abbotsford" comparable with the New York City megalopolis, really?

No, but is comparable with, say, Gainesville, GA, also on the list.

[The Agonist]

It would be interesting to see a list based on residents from other continents, not mostly from neighboring countries.


and that would be interesting because.....

[BTinSF]

It said some people felt their identity was being threatened by so many foreigners, and it urged the promotion of cultural diversity as the key to development and stability.

Regardless of how you feel about "diversity", that statement seems like a non-sequitor to me. As a tool for reduction of cultural dysphoria, what about America's traditional approach--the "melting pot"? But they probably don't know about that in Britain or at the UN.

Or we can just live with the dysphoria and not "promote" anything.

[Marcu]

Chicago's 18% is surprisingly low. I would've guessed around 25%. I guess the sheer concetration of people in neighborhoods like Rogers Park and Albany Park, where each block is a different ethnic group, makes it seem like the foreign born population is a larger % then it actually is.

[furrycanuck]

Do we consider "Abbotsford" comparable with the New York City megalopolis, really?

Abbotsford is a CMA. A small one, but it's a CMA.

Everything is "comparable." This does not make everything the same. I know it's a challenging concept, but consider how you can COMPARE MEN and WOMEN. MEN are not the SAME as WOMEN, but they can be COMPARED.

If you need more assistance on this difficult notion, feel free to PM me.

[SHiRO]

Let's see how many more non-U.S. cities we can mention?
Yeah, what were we thinking posting in the US City Discussions forum?!
...Oh wait...:uhh:


Do we consider "Abbotsford" comparable with the New York City megalopolis, really?
Do we consider Gainesville comparable with the New York megalopolis? ;)

[SHiRO]

Here's what the BBC reports:

Miami tops 'foreign-born' cities (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3898795.stm)

Miami has the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world, a United Nations report says. Some 59% of people in the city were not born in the US, the UN Development Programme report said.

The city is home to many Cubans, as well as migrants from the Caribbean and South America.

The report said Canada's Toronto had the second-highest proportion of foreign-born citizens (44%), while Los Angeles was a close third with 41%.

Soaring numbers

Another two North American cities - Canada's Vancouver (37%) and New York (36%) - made it into the top five, the report said.

Outside North America, the town-state of Singapore scored highest (33%), followed by Australia's Sydney (31%), Abidjan (30%) in Ivory Coast, London (28%) and Paris (23%).

The report said that due to globalisation, numbers of migrants had soared in the last decade, particularly in high-income countries in Europe and North America, and in Australia.

It said some people felt their identity was being threatened by so many foreigners, and it urged the promotion of cultural diversity as the key to development and stability.
It seems these are different numbers, most likely for the city limits, instead of the whole metro.

In that case Amsterdam should be included at 30%.
http://www.os.amsterdam.nl/tabel/1590/

And Rotterdam at 26%.
http://www.cos.rotterdam.nl/smartsite229.dws?goto=2148392&style=2033&substyle=

[mhays]

Yeah, this list is so insignificant... none of those cities could possibly be near the top of that more substantive list. :rolleyes:

Here's what I said: "It would be interesting to see a list based on residents from other continents, not mostly from neighboring countries."

A few people seem to have read this through the filter of their own bias.

dktshb, your response stands out as truly unintelligent. Your response has nothing to do with what I said.

I didn't say that the basic "international" list wasn't interesting. I only said the other list would also be interesting. Yes I'm implying that the other list would look very different, and, though I didn't say it, I even think my city wouldn't be so far down the rankings in that list. But I'm mostly asking because, like many demographics nerds, I'd love to see both sets of numbers.

Maybe the complainers only read posts in the context of supporting/attacking their own cities?

[Minato Ku]

It seems these are different numbers, most likely for the city limits, instead of the whole metro.

In that case Amsterdam should be included at 30%.
http://www.os.amsterdam.nl/tabel/1650/

And Rotterdam at 26%.
http://www.cos.rotterdam.nl/smartsite229.dws?goto=2148392&style=2033&substyle=

I thinks it is cities over 1 million inhabitants but some numbers are weird.
Miami 59% is for the city proper and not for the Metro area.
Toronto 44% is more for the metropolitan area than for the city proper, but
For London, 28%, This number is lower than the for the city proper but higher than the metro area. :shrug:
Paris 23% is right for the city proper and for the metro area.

[EtherealMist]

Let's see how many more non-U.S. cities we can mention?


Yeah, what were we thinking posting in the US City Discussions forum?!
...Oh wait...:uhh:


This thread is about an article concerning US cities.

If everyone from other countries started listing off the cities in their country with high foreign born populations we'll be here all day.

[SHiRO]

I thinks it is cities over 1 million inhabitants but some numbers are weird.
Miami 59% is for the city proper and not for the Metro area.
Toronto 44% is more for the metropolitan area than for the city proper, but
For London, 28%, This number is lower than the for the city proper but higher than the metro area. :shrug:
Paris 23% is right for the city proper and for the metro area.
Miami is not over 1 million, neither is Sydney.
28% for Greater London seems right?

Paris is 23% both for city proper and metro? I thought the metro would be slightly higher.

[SHiRO]

If everyone from other countries started listing off the cities in their country with high foreign born populations we'll be here all day.
No we wouldn't.
There are hardly any posters from outside North America here.
"Exclusive" US threads like this one are scaring them all away.

But hey, I can move this thread to the US section where it belongs then if you want me too...:shrug:



This thread is about an article concerning US cities.
Hey looky! Now there's also another article which mentions cities outside the US!
Can we please play now?

[fflint]

Since some feel offended by a thread about the US Census Bureau's report not including cities outside the US, we'll just move it in here and people can get busy finding some other excuse to play victim.

[SHiRO]

Eh, noone is offended by the existence of this thread. I (speaking for myself) am slightly offended that not one, but several other forumers (including a moderator no less) find it necessary to tell the already scarce non Americans we shouldn't post here.
This while the thread was posted in the international section.

Maybe the thread should have been posted in the US section to begin with, but moving it now (that articles and information have been added to make it more "international") is the wrong decision.

And noone is playing victim either. This forum is becoming increasingly more uninviting to non North American forumers, maybe unintentionally, but it's occuring. Moving this thread is not exactely helping, it's giving the wrong message.

[bobdreamz]

great another thread that will die in this section...in case anybody hasn't noticed this section gets a reply roughly every 2-3 days. It's not like the thread title was misleading anyways.

[EtherealMist]

Eh, noone is offended by the existence of this thread. I (speaking for myself) am slightly offended that not one, but several other forumers (including a moderator no less) find it necessary to tell the already scarce non Americans we shouldn't post here.
This while the thread was posted in the international section.




I think there was a misunderstanding... I never said you cant post here or other non-Americans for that matter. That would be asinine

By the way you guys know this sub-section sees very little activity right?

[SHiRO]

I didn't move it, nor did I want it moved.

[brickell]

For those that are wondering here is how Miami breaks down according to 2005 census estimates.

City of Miami: 362K @ 58%
Greater Miami (Miami-Dade county): 2.3M @ 50%
Metro Miami (Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach): 5.2M @ 36.5%

Others, just for fun.
City of Miami Beach: 84K @ 55%
City of Hialeah: 214K @ 70%
Weston (rich suburb): 49k @ 28%

[dktshb]

Oh, this thead is yet another to die from assisted suicide.

[PremierAtlanta]

lol at the previous post.

[kevin22]

no surprise miami metro is up there.

[dante2308]

This thread is about an article concerning US cities.

If everyone from other countries started listing off the cities in their country with high foreign born populations we'll be here all day.

And we only have half a day left. Only America is worth the little precious time we have.

[lmcm1990]

Miami, LA, NYC, San Diego, San Francisco and Houston are no surprise.