List of ethnic enclaves in North American cities

This is a list of ethnic enclaves in various countries of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds to the native population. An ethnic enclave in this context denotes an area primarily populated by a population with similar ethnic or racial background. This list also includes concentrations rather than enclaves, and historic examples which may no longer be an ethnic enclave.[9]

Ethnic enclaves in North American cities
New York City is home to the largest overseas Chinese population of any city proper in the Western Hemisphere, with over half million. Multiple large Chinatowns in Manhattan, Brooklyn (above), and Queens are thriving as traditionally urban ethnic enclaves, as large-scale Chinese immigration continues into New York,[1][2][3][4] with the largest metropolitan Chinese population outside of Asia.[5]
Broad Avenue, Koreatown (팰리세이즈 파크 코리아타운) in Palisades Park, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA,[6] where Koreans comprise the majority (52%) of the population.[7]
India Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, is one of at least 24 Indian American enclaves characterized as a Little India which have emerged within the New York City Metropolitan Area, with the largest metropolitan Indian population outside Asia, as large-scale immigration from India continues into New York.[1][2][3][8]

List by world region and national origin

Africa

African Americans

List of African-American neighborhoods - Thousands of African-American neighborhoods exist today. However, many of these communities are now less populated by African Americans than they were during the earlier, sometimes mid and late parts of the 20th century.

Angola

Benin

Cameroon

Cape Verde

Congo (Brazzaville and DRC)

Côte d'Ivoire

Ethiopia

Eritrea

  • The San Francisco Bay Area is home to over a dozen thousand Eritreans in estimation, as with other Habesha peoples like Ethiopian Americans; Apple Valley Lane/Piner Road areas in Santa Rosa and Temescal Avenue in Oakland have plentiful populations.
  • Enclaves of Eritreans can be found in Seattle and Tacoma
  • Little Ethiopia, Los Angeles, also has some Eritrean population

Nigeria

  • Houston, Texas has the largest Nigerian American community.[citation needed]
  • New York City – the largest Nigerian immigrant population in the United States.[41]

Somalia

Other or pan-African

Asia (East, South and Southeast)

Armenia

Bangladesh

Burma/Myanmar

Cambodia

Manhattan's Chinatown, home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere,[69][70][71][72][73] is the oldest of at least 9 Chinatowns in the New York City Metropolitan Area.

China

Chinatown, San Francisco
Toronto's downtown Chinatown

Hmong

India

Iran

Japan

Korea

Laos

Pakistan

Pakistani and other South Asian shops in Gerrard Street, Toronto.

Philippines

Sri Lanka

Thailand

Vietnam

Little Saigon, Orange County, California

European or Anglo origin

Australia

Albania

Basque

Belgium

Bosnian

(People with origins from Bosnia and Herzegovina):

Croatia

Denmark

Eastern European Jewish

Finland

France

Germany

A German-style home, now a restaurant, in the San Angel neighborhood, Mexico City

Greece

Iceland

Ireland

Irish-American communities are highly frequently found in the USA and only the largest ones are listed here.

Italy

Luxembourg

Malta

Poland

Portugal

Russia

Scandinavia

7% of the population in Saskatoon in Canada is of Norwegian ancestry.

Serbia

Slovenia

United Kingdom

Cornwall
Wales

Middle East, Caucasus, and Central Asia

Largest Arab-American and Middle eastern enclaves.

Afghanistan

Armenia

Kurds

Palestinian

South/Latin America and Caribbean

Growing Mexican,(Central American) Salvadoran, (South American) Colombian and Ecuadorean population concentrated in the city's north west area.

Central and South America

Guatemala

El Salvador

Except Puerto Ricans (fourth as a nationality, second in ancestry among Hispanics and Latinos), Salvadorans are the second largest Hispanic/Latino ethnicity in the US, close to Dominicans who are third. Large Salvadoran communities developed in the late 20th–early 21st century period as a result of civil war, economic conditions, political turmoil and gang violence in the country, the country El Salvador is among the smallest in size in the Western Hemisphere. The largest Salvadoran population is in Central parts of Los Angeles[284] and throughout California (i.e. the Coachella Valley/Riverside county) along with Central American groups like Guatemalans, Hondurans and Nicaraguans.[285] Recent census data shows that for the first time, there are more Salvadorans living on Long Island than Puerto Ricans, with Salvadorans now numbering nearly 100,000,[286] representing nearly a quarter of all Hispanics in the region, making them the largest Latino group in Long Island (New York State).

Mexico

Mural in Chicano Park, San Diego stating "All the way to the Bay"

Note: Since immigrants from Mexico have been the largest group for a long time and have spread throughout the country perhaps more than any other nationality in recent times, Mexican-American enclaves are far more numerous than this list would suggest.

West Indies and Caribbean

Pacific Islands and Oceania

Including Native Hawaiians or Kanaka Maoli in the mainland US, esp the west coast states of CA, NV, OR and WA.

Samoa

Tonga

Marshall Islands

Fiji

Micronesia

Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (Chamorro and Carolinians)

Others

Jews (of many nationalities)

Native Americans

The highest concentration of urban Indians in the United States is believed to be in Anchorage, Alaska where over 10 percent of the population identify themselves in the census as having some Native ancestry, with 7.3 percent identifying that as their only ancestry. In the mainland USA, Indian Alley in downtown Los Angeles, California, may be the most dense Native American population of any major city.[311]

The second highest concentration of urban Indians in the U.S. is Albuquerque, New Mexico where at least 5 percent of the population belong to recognized Native American tribes such as the Navajo, Apache and Pueblo (Keresan, Tiwa, Tewa, Towa, Zuni). Southeast Albuquerque has the largest Native American community in the city but Native communities can also be found on the Westside and Rio Rancho. Albuquerque also has a Cherokee diaspora community known as the Cherokee Southwest Township. A much larger percentage of the population possess some Native ancestry but identity as Hispanos, Mestizos or Genizaros. This population lives all over the Albuquerque metro area but is concentrated in the South Valley and Bernalillo.

Winnipeg, Manitoba has the largest indigenous population of any major city in Canada both in terms of percentage (12.2 percent) and total number. Other Canadian cities with significant First Nations populations include Prince George, British Columbia and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Smaller off-reservation cities and towns with significant Native American populations include:

See also

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