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This shows the largest percentage irrespective of population, which skews the figures quite a bit, since statistical anomalies easily get propelled to the top spot. For example, I'm pretty sure there are more Nigerians in New York City than the site's pick of "Fort Bend County, Texas", and I wouldn't be surprised if the nation's apparent #1 Belgian community in Weber, UT (which seems to be flying under the radar as far as Google is concerned) was a single large Mormon family.

Same for Uruguayans (and almost all Latin Americans), there are a lot more in Miami, NY and San Francisco than in Worcester, Maryland (although I do know of one there haha).

Edit: I am impressed, there ARE a lot of Uruguayans in Leominster (1200 out of 40.000 inhabitants), as a whole Miami, NY and SF have more, but it's indeed where they're more concentrated.

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/leominster-fitchburg-&-gardne...

Not sure how accurate this is. Just from what I know about "my people", the Israelis, are clustered in the east coast, perhaps to a similar number as on the west coast. While in the west coast itself, I am not sure that the Los Angeles community is larger than the one in the Bay Area.

Since this is only counting people born in Israel it's probably a much smaller group than the wider community.

Russia seems like a weird country to not have (or am I blind? cant find on mobile).

You're right, its not on there. May have been missing from initial data set for some reason.

Sunny Isles Beach, FL is one place (but as you say it's not on there)

Well-known to me from my mother's side of the family: Punjabi Sikhs in North America form an archipelago with Brampton, ON, Surrey, BC, and San Jose, CA as anchoring vertices (with possible moorings in Renton, WA).

Seems pretty accurate from what i've seen in my life. Indians somewhere in central NJ, Koreans in Bergen, Georgians in Brooklyn, Egyptians in Nashville.

One of these days we will annex Maine and Vermont. It's a soft, slow takeover—but it is inevitable. Did I say that out loud?

Neat. I really like exploring demo data like this.

One thing to note is that you have the following the countries:

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Czechoslovakia

If people are from Czechoslovakia does that mean the immigrated to the US before the end of the Cold War?

Kazakhstan in the Portland metro area? Where are they all hiding? I've lived here for decades and have never heard of anyone being from Kazakhstan.

Maybe there aren’t many Kazakhs in the USA, so an abnormal concentration in smallish Portland that is still difficult to notice would win the percent count.

Yeah, 70 Kazakhs in Portland (population ca 700K) and 800 in NYC (population ca 8.4M): Portland has percentage-wise more Kazakhs than NYC! (0.01% vs 0.0095%)

It was nice of the creators to mention their dataset (2018 IPUMS dataset), but can anyone tell me what frameworks are used to create this?

Seems to be primarily Mapbox.

Works really well for Poland. Chicago is sometimes (jokingly) considered the second biggest Polish city.

There was quite a large Polish population in Greenpoint Brooklyn which is still present but largely gutted by gentrification. There's also another sizable pocket in Ridgewood/Fresh Pond.

Ah yes. There's a few Polish pop songs about Brooklyn.

How is Czechoslovakia still considered a single country?

If it was called that when someone left, what country did they leave? And when you don't know which half?

I guess the list could say "Former ..."

It tagged along with Zaire into a time machine

It's got England and Scotland but no Wales :(

Also Northern Ireland.

I noticed that too, but it's a public dataset from a single year, so possibly it's just that no Welshmen settled in the USA in 2018?

Lots of Dutch in Austin?

Surprisingly accurate

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