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Originally Posted by Docere
If you compare apples and oranges, sure. LA has a huge Jewish population obviously but quite the stretch to say it's "more Jewish" than NJ or South Florida.
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In the catchment area, which is the Jewish Federation of Greater LA. The catchment area doesn't cover a majority of Ventura County — Camarillo, Oxnard, Ventura, and the Ojai and Santa Clara River Valleys. Those communities have a total population of about 485,000. There's probably another 10K Jews or so within that population.
That comes out to about 575K Jews across 7.55 million (40% of LA CSA), or 7.6% of the population. The point being, there's a contiguous area within the LA metro that's a good half a million larger than both the NJ portion of NYC and all of South Florida, and maintains a larger or very similar percentage of Jewry. Of the few CSAs with a greater total population than 7.55 million, the only one you could cherry pick to get a similar percentage is Boston — 7.3% across 3.03 million people (Suffolk, Middlesex, Norfolk).
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