Jamaicans make up half of the Caribbean inhabitants residing in america, in keeping with data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The bureau launched its 2020 census inhabitants information 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 (combined).
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 information on the Hispanic or Latino inhabitants and main race teams similar to White, Black or African American, Asian, and many others.
“These 2020 Census information illuminate the wealthy range throughout our nation,” stated Rachel Marks, chief of the Census Bureau’s Racial Statistics Department.
“Now we have this complete image due to the thousands and thousands of people that responded to the census and supplied their detailed racial, ethnic or tribal identification, and because of the stakeholders, researchers and tribal leaders who helped us enhance how we acquire these detailed information.”
Jamaican-American inhabitants rising
The Jamaican diaspora in america is the largest Caribbean immigrant group. An estimate from the American Community Survey says there are over 1.5 million individuals of Jamaican descent residing in america.
Jamaican immigrants are discovered all through america, with vital communities in cities similar to 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 america 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 big enhance in immigration occurred within the mid-Twentieth century and continues to the current day.
