Jamaicans make up half of the Caribbean inhabitants residing in the US, in accordance with knowledge launched by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The bureau launched its 2020 census inhabitants knowledge this week, which reported that of the 46.7 million Black or African-American respondents to the census, some 2.6 million individuals recognized as both being solely Caribbean or partially (blended).
Of the two.6 million individuals, some 1,047,117 individuals recognized as Jamaica, one other 1,032,737 recognized as Haitian, 194,364 recognized as being Trinidadian and Tobagonian, and one other 119,806 recognized as being West Indian.
The variety of respondents who recognized as being solely Caribbean was 2.1 million, with Jamaicans and Haitians collectively accounting for over 80% of that group.
Caribbean inclusion within the U.S. Census
That is the primary time {that a} U.S. Census has included Caribbean teams. Different new teams embrace German, Lebanese, Chinese language, Native Hawaiian and Mexican — and American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages just like the Navajo Nation. The discharge contains details about greater than 200 detailed race and ethnic teams not tabulated from earlier censuses.
Beforehand, the Census Bureau launched 2020 Census knowledge on the Hispanic or Latino inhabitants and main race teams resembling White, Black or African American, Asian, and so forth.
“These 2020 Census knowledge illuminate the wealthy range throughout our nation,” stated Rachel Marks, chief of the Census Bureau’s Racial Statistics Department.
“We’ve this complete image because of the thousands and thousands of people that responded to the census and supplied their detailed racial, ethnic or tribal id, and due to the stakeholders, researchers and tribal leaders who helped us enhance how we gather these detailed knowledge.”
Jamaican-American inhabitants rising
The Jamaican diaspora in the US is the biggest Caribbean immigrant group. An estimate from the American Group Survey says there are over 1.5 million individuals of Jamaican descent residing in the US.
Jamaican immigrants are discovered all through the US, with important communities in cities resembling New York Metropolis, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, and Hartford. New York Metropolis, significantly the borough of Brooklyn, has one of many largest concentrations of Jamaican People.
Jamaican migration to the US has occurred in a number of waves. The earliest Jamaican immigrants got here to the U.S. within the late nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. Nonetheless, a major enhance in immigration occurred within the mid-Twentieth century and continues to the current day.