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Originally Posted by Crawford
Cleveland (city proper) might actually surpass NYC (city proper) in % PR. I find that amazing. NYC was 8.8% PR in 2010, but that % has probably dropped.
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why? just like ny, pr's had a small history in the area, and then unlike ny they were heavily recruited for the steel and auto industry.
most of the pr community in cle is in three neighborhoods on the near westside.
Cleveland city
Puerto Rican 31,000 8.1%
Cleveland MSA
Puerto Rican 66,000 3.2%
the difference in cle city and the msa is because by far and wide most of the pr community in ohio is in post-industrial lorain. it's lost over a quarter of its population, like 25k people, in the rust belt collapse, which is on a less publicized par with youngstown, but is still the 10th largest and most diverse city of any size in the state, percentage wise anyway. its still easily a third pr even though steel and auto have left (there is still plenty of that work nearby though, which helps keep people around even if they have to commute a bit). so thats around 25k pr peoples right there.
many people pr people i know in the bx have relatives or have been to cle and lorain.
this short video below says lately there are 100k pr in the whole state of ohio, and half are in lorain and cle city. i see columbus has about 10k and toledo 1k. i would guess the rest are scattered around greater clevelandia (and for comparison, chi and philly each have 100k). :
https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/cen...nity-lorain-oh
https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/13/new...wns/index.html
la villa in cle
