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Originally Posted by Xing
Tell that to St Louis please. Still dealing with blight, and probably the biggest metro area in the country to not have a Latino population higher than 5%.
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I only have data for the midwest/rustbelt at hand, but considering that the region is the lowest overall in the nation for Latino population share, your statement is likely true given that only Pittsburgh is lower on the list below. However, metro Detroit is larger than st. Louis and was right at 5% in 2020.
here are the 1M+ midwest/rustbelt MSAs ranked by percentage of latinos.
MSA latino population (census 2020):
chicago: 2,239,376 (23.3%)
milwaukee: 182,777 (11.6%)
kansas city: 229,233 (10.5%)
grand rapids: 110,671 (10.2%)
indianapolis: 177,787 (8.4%)
rochester: 88,854 (8.1%)
minneapolis: 242,621 (6.8%)
louisville: 82,964 (6.5%)
cleveland: 133,862 (6.4%)
buffalo: 67,476 (5.8%)
columbus: 110,967 (5.2%)
detroit: 219,953 (5.0%)
cincinnati: 95,073 (4.2%)
st. louis: 106,269 (3.8%)
pittsburgh: 52,920 (2.2%)
nationally, latinos now make up 18.5% of the US population as of 2020. chicago is the only major MSA in the region that is more or less aligned with the national trend.