Major City Black Population +/-, per 2020 Census

[bl2k8]

Oakland

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Funny how size (land area) of a city changes things, LA has more black people than DC but DC feels like a much blacker city

 

[Biscayne]

Miami’s black population decreased faster than any California city. Cities like Oakland are blacker than Miami. Soon, LA might be blacker than Miami. Miami really isn’t a Southern city anymore. Southern culture is a thing of the past in Miami. Not even black immigrants are migrating to Miami like they used to it seems. And gentrification is pushing the remaining immigrants and ADOS out. Only 12.9% of Miami is black. Wow. And Miami isn’t even a large city. 12.9% of only like 500,000 and 50sq miles. I bet a city like LA feels significantly blacker than Miami. Has to be.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Black Percentage of Population
Detroit 77.7%
Birmingham 68.4%
Memphis 61.6%
Baltimore 57.8%
New Orleans 54.2%
Baton Rouge 53.8%

Newark 49.4%
Cleveland 48.4%
Atlanta 47.2%
St Louis 43%
Washington 41.4%
Dayton 40.7%
Cincinnati 40.6%
Richmond 40.4%
Norfolk 40.2%
Rochester 40.1%
Philadelphia 39.3%
Milwaukee 38.6%
Columbia 38.5%
Hartford 38.2%
Buffalo 36.9%
Bridgeport 35.1%
Charlotte 33.1%
New Haven 32.2%
Albany 31.3%
Jacksonville 30.6%
Chicago 29.2%
Columbus 28.6%
Indianapolis 27.9%
Raleigh 26.3%
Kansas City 26.1%

Nashville 24.6%
Orlando 23.8%
Louisville 23.5%
Dallas 23.3%
Greenville 22.9%
Pittsburgh 22.8%
Houston 22.6%
New York 22.1%
Tampa 21.9%
Oakland 20.8%
Boston 20.6%
Fort Worth 19.6%
Minneapolis 19.1%
Grand Rapids 18.9%
Virginia Beach 18.6%
Charleston 17%
St Paul 16.8%
Knoxville 16%
Tulsa 14.9%
Worcester 14.8%
Oklahoma City 14%
Providence 13.5%
Sacramento 13.2%
Allentown 13.2%
Las Vegas 12.9%
Miami 12.9%
Omaha 12.4%
United States 12.3%
Tacoma 10.3%

Denver 8.9%
Los Angeles 8.6%
Phoenix 7.8%
Fresno 7.6%
Austin 7.3%
San Antonio 7.2%
Seattle 7%
Bakersfield 7%
Riverside 6.4%
San Diego 5.9%
Portland 5.9%
Tucson 5.6%
San Francisco 5.3%

Albuquerque 3.5%
San Jose 2.9%
Salt Lake City 2.9%
Honolulu 1.7%

I thought Saint Lois has a higher percentage then that.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Black % Growth/Decline since 2010
Worcester +44.8%
Phoenix +33.8%
Fort Worth +28.8%
Las Vegas +27.2%

Honolulu +20.9%
Columbus +17.8%
St Paul +16.8%
Tucson +16.7%
Minneapolis +15.4%
Jacksonville +15%
Salt Lake City +13.3%
Charlotte +12.8%
San Antonio +12.6%
Allentown +12.2%
Albuquerque +10.6%
Indianapolis +10.1%

Orlando +9.6%
Oklahoma City +9.5%
Austin +8.3%
Omaha +7.7%
Seattle +6.4%
Newark +6.2%

Bridgeport +4.6%
Houston +4.4%
Denver +4.2%
Portland +4.1%
Atlanta +3.8%
Raleigh +3.6%
Albany +3%
Tacoma +2.1%
Buffalo +1.8%
Dallas +1.5%
Sacramento +1.2%
New Orleans +0.7%
Fresno +0%

Bakersfield -0.2%
Knoxville -0.3%
Virginia Beach -0.5%
Nashville -0.9%
Tulsa -1%
Baton Rouge -2.2%
San Jose -3.1%
Columbia -3.6%
Rochester -3.6%
Kansas City -3.6%
Tampa -4%
Grand Rapids -4.3%
Hartford -4.3%
San Francisco -4.4%
Philadelphia -4.7%
Memphis -4.9%

Cincinnati -5.7%
New Haven -6%
Riverside -6.2%
Milwaukee -6.3%
Washington -6.3%
San Diego -6.5%
New York -6.9%
Greenville -7.7%
Boston -7.7%
Dayton -7.8%
Los Angeles -7.9%
Norfolk -8.7%
Providence -9.4%
Chicago -9.7%

Richmond -11.3%
Birmingham -11.9%
Pittsburgh -13.4%
Baltimore -14.5%
Cleveland -14.9%
Detroit -15.9%
Charleston -16.2%
St Louis -17.4%

Miami -25.5%
Oakland -29.3%

The cities that have the largest - is a surprise to me. And that correlated with my thoughts on St. Louis I mentioned a post before

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I don’t like the term “the south” and what I appreciate about this list is that you can clearly see there are parts of the south that have a declining black popilation. Not every city in the south is Dallas houston or ATL

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

There's a few of them moving to Ames Iowa too.

I worked for a company out there…WOAT

 

[murksiderock]

Funny how size (land area) of a city changes things, LA has more black people than DC but DC feels like a much blacker city

DC feels blacker than most cities, it peaked at over 70% Black not even 50 years ago...

Matter fact I can't really think of any place I've been that feels blacker than The District; there are places that feel equally black but none I can think of that felt blacker...

But people really misrepresent Black Los Angeles, for the life of me I'll never understand how people claim they don't feel our presence in LA unless they specifically avoid South LA and the upper South Bay...

DC is 61.1 mi² with a population of ~690k and ~285k black people (41.4%), population density of ~11.3k. There is a contigous stretch of Los Angeles that includes the entirety of South Central as well as the Inglewood Bottoms, Morningside, North Ingles, and Ladera Heights, that is ~59.4 mi² with a total population of ~875k and ~256k black people (29.3%) and a population density of ~14.8k...

People who've spent time in this defined ~59 mi² window, and even portions slightly outside of it (lower Mid-City, parts of The Gar, Carson, and West Compton), there's no way you don't feel an immense presence of black population and culture. Los Angeles can nearly equal the number of black people in all of DC in almost an equal amount if land area, because most black folks in LA live in the south if the city, but LA is significantly more developed than DC so LA will have more people overall in the same space as DC...

DC on the whole May feel blacker but it's so geographically small, it's really just a slice of the biggest cities like LA. People stay misrepresenting LA's blackness...

 

[Biscayne]

Las Vegas and Oklahoma City are blacker than Miami now.

 

[pete clemenza]

Fresno has more black folks than I thought. I saw more black folks there than I imagine when I went to my cousin's wedding. All them black folks in the middle of nowhere California

Fresno always had a nice sized black community. Only 200 miles from LA and 160 miles from the Bay Area

 

[Mega]

I had the best salad of my life at a spot downtown nearly 4 years ago and I can't recall the name of the place to save my life. Boston was cool, definitely saw plenty of
What was it like growing up black in Boston?

It was cool with me.

I know plenty of folks have been moving up to Broward and Central FL. But I didn't think Miami lost that many black ppl

 

[Brer Dog]

I don’t like the term “the south”

Why not?

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Right “nikkas” been talkin down for years but willingly stay in cac dominated areas better move to the D and get down on this real estate and legal weed

Because it has one of the highest murder rates and black urban blight in the nation.

Why would you think any logical black person would talk “Up” about that?


Idk any city with a high murder rate or urban blight that black folks talk highly about

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Give me 1 good reason why more black people should move to Detroit?

I think those posters are so focused on the high black percentage that they forgot Detroit has one of the worst population declines in the country for the past several decades and black people are leaving there just as much as other cities.


Detroit will always be the blackest city until it gentrifies because the vast majority of other races haven’t found an interest in moving there YET.

but once it does get that Cali, NYC, DC level gentrification you will see cacs and Asians moving there at a faster rate than black folks

 

[Hater Eraser]

The decline of Oakland black population is depressing. City was almost 50% black at one point

They're still in the Bay Area .. just not Oakland as much . Hella Mexicans