List Of Ethnic Enclaves In North American Cities

Ethnic enclaves in North American cities
Ethnic enclaves in North American cities
	New York City is home to the largest overseas Chinese population of any city proper in the Western Hemisphere, with over half million. Multiple large Chinatowns in Manhattan, Brooklyn (above), and Queens are thriving as traditionally urban ethnic enclaves, as large-scale Chinese immigration continues into New York, with the largest metropolitan Chinese population outside of Asia.

An ethnic enclave in this context denotes an area primarily populated by a population with similar ethnic or racial background. This list also includes concentrations rather than enclaves, and historic examples which may no longer be an ethnic enclave.

List by world region and national origin

Africa

African Americans

List of African-American neighborhoods - Thousands of African-American neighborhoods exist today. However, many of these communities are now less populated by African Americans than they were during the earlier, sometimes mid and late parts of the 20th century.

Angola

Benin

Chicago, Illinois

Cameroon

Cape Verde

Brockton, Massachusetts
Fall River, Massachusetts
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Fox Point, Providence, Rhode Island (historically Cape Verdean, now gentrifying).
Pawtucket, Rhode Island (Cape Verdean – largest Cape Verde community outside their islands).

Congo (Brazzaville and DRC)

Cote d'Ivoire

Ethiopia

Washington, D.C. - See also Ethiopians in Washington, D.C.
- Little Ethiopia (Washington, D.C.)
Silver Spring, Maryland
Little Ethiopia, Denver, Colorado.
Little Ethiopia, Los Angeles, California (Ethiopian, Eritrean) - largest Ethiopian community outside Africa. Nearby Fairfax District, Los Angeles has many Ethiopians, including Ethiopian Jews, close to West Los Angeles' large Jewish population. It has other immigrants from Africa (i.e. Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda).
Little Ethiopia, Seattle, Washington.
Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota is home to many Somali, Oromo, Ethiopian and Eritrean immigrants.
Oakland, California has over 20,000 Ethiopian and Eritrean people.
W San Carlos Street, San Jose, California - Many Ethiopian restaurants and people
Santa Rosa and Rohnert Park, CA - home to 2,000-3,000 Ethiopians and Eritreans

Nigeria

Houston, Texas has the largest Nigerian American community.^{[citation needed]}
New York City – the largest Nigerian immigrant population in the United States.

Somalia

Little Mogadishu, Minneapolis – largest Somali community in North America.

Other or pan-African

Asia (East, South and Southeast)

Orange County, California – largest Asian nationality is Vietnamese. Third largest Asian-American population in the US after Greater Los Angeles and Santa Clara Valley in California.
Carmel, Indiana – Large Asian community of about 10,000 as of 2019. Includes Chinese, Korean, Indian and some Japanese among others.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Armenia

Little Armenia in Los Angeles, California.
Fresno, California
Watertown, Massachusetts
Glendale, California – largest population of the Armenian diaspora in the United States.

Bangladesh

Little Bangladesh in Los Angeles, California. There has been South Asian immigration in central Los Angeles.

Hmong

Detroit Metropolitan Area, Michigan (Significantly decreased since 1990s)
The Fox Cities, Wisconsin.
Fresno, CA (4.9% of city population)
Frogtown, Saint Paul, Minnesota. also known as "Little Mekong", there are other Hmong in Minneapolis metro area.
Marion, Hickory, Morganton, North Carolina – About 5,000 Hmong live in the statistical area.
Gresham, Oregon (Iu Mien)
Salem, Oregon (Iu Mien)

India

Edison, New Jersey – known as the first Little India in the USA.
Hicksville, New York (Little India).
Little India, Artesia, California: Pioneer Boulevard, between 183rd St. and South St., Artesia
Yuba City, California
Sunnyvale, California
San Ramon, California
Fremont, California
Modesto, California
Turlock, California
Santa Clara, California
Brampton, Ontario
Surrey, British Columbia

Iran

"Tehrangeles" (Los Angeles – a portmanteau deriving from the combination of Tehran, the capital of Iran, and Los Angeles.
Turlock, California - Mostly Assyrian Christian Iranians
Baltimore, Maryland

Japan

Alameda, California (historic).
Leimert Park, Los Angeles (mainly Japanese from 1920s-50s).
Little Tokyo, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City
Markham, Ontario near Toronto, Ontario in Canada.

Korea

Annandale, Virginia.
Barrio Coreano (Guatemala City), also known as Avenida Seúl.
Fort Lee, New Jersey (as well as Japanese).
Irvine, California (among other Asians).
Little Seoul, Newport News, Virginia.
Pequeño Seúl – Mexico City
Riverside, California
Santa Clara County, California Contains several "Koreatown" districts in Santa Clara (Unmarked) and San Jose (See Koreatown, San Jose)

Laos

Chollas View, San Diego, California – Laotian immigrant enclave.

Pakistan

Westwood, Los Angeles, California – also has Persians from Iran (Persia Square).

Philippines

Carson, California. It has a "Little Manila".
Cerritos, California.
Daly City, California.
Broadmoor, California
Union City, California
South San Francisco, California
Outer Mission, San Francisco
Delano, California – where "Larry Itliong Day" was dedicated
Kansas City, Missouri.
"Philly-pino-town" Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Torrance, California.
West Covina, California, centered on "Manila Way" on Amar Rd. and Azusa Ave.
Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Sri Lanka

Covina, California with a Sri Lankan community center in West Covina, California.
Little Sri Lanka, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York City.
Toronto (Malvern) (Toronto is home to the largest Tamil-speaking population outside South Asia).

Thailand

North side Chicago, Illinois.
Thai Town, Los Angeles, California

Vietnam

Argyle, Chicago, Illinois.
Little Saigon Business District on Federal in Denver, Colorado
Little Saigon in Southeast Albuquerque, New Mexico
Arlington, Texas
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
Biloxi, Mississippi.
D'Iberville, Mississippi.
Orange County, California.
San Jose, California
Little Saigons in Massachusetts
New Orleans, Louisiana (Village de L'Est)
Portland, Oregon – there is a large Vietnamese community in North Portland and Beaverton.

European or Anglo origin

Australia

Albania

Albanian Town, Chicago.
Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York.
Detroit, Michigan. See also History of the Albanian Americans in Metro Detroit
Pelham Parkway (neighborhood), Bronx, New York City, New York.
South Boston, Boston, Massachusetts.
Worcester, Massachusetts.

Basque

Malheur County, Oregon - Basques shepherds migrated to Southeastern Oregon settling in the communities of Arock, Basque, Burns and Jordan Valley.
Elko, Nevada
Reno, Nevada
Boise, Idaho
Bakersfield, California

Belgium

Sarnia, Ontario, Canada – "Flemish or Dutch Corridor" to Chatham, Ontario.

Croatia

Pueblo, Colorado.

Denmark

Eastern European Jewish

Orange Park, Florida in the Jacksonville, Florida area – in addition, has non-Jewish Slavic groups, Romanians, Hungarians and Albanians.
Rockland County, New York. Highest proportion of Jews of any county in the United States. Most are of the Satmar sect of Hasidism. In the town of Kiryas Joel, 95% of families spoke Yiddish at home.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Home to many Orthodox and Hasidic communities.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Home to the headquarters of the Chabad Movement. Crown Heights has a large historical population of Orthodox and Hasidic Jews.

Finland

France

Linden, Alabama
Reynoldston, New York in Franklin County, New York facing Quebec, Canada.
Most of Quebec as well as much of Acadia in Canada
French Town, Los Angeles (historic, Basque)

Germany

Deutschtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Hanover, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Dutch Country (also Swiss in origin)
St. Marys, Pennsylvania – Bavarian Catholic.
Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio
Germantown & Schnitzelburg In Louisville (Historic)

Greece

Astoria, Queens, New York.
Campbell, Ohio.
Cleveland, Ohio.
Greektown, Tarpon Springs, Florida.
Greektown, Toronto
Greek Town, Omaha, Nebraska (historic).
La Merced historical Greektown in Mexico City along Calle Academia (Academia Street).
Naucalpan, State of Mexico a large Greek community has formed outside of Mexico City.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
"Old Greek Town", Salt Lake City, Utah - the state has a Greek community.
Palm Desert, California – where they have an annual Greek festival near the local Greek Orthodox church.
Sinaloa, Mexico - this Mexican state has coastal Greek communities. The cities of Culiacan, Humaya, Tamazula and Yoreme have the largest Greek concentrations in Sinaloa where the cultivation of tomato brought them fortunes and the valley is known as "Valle de Grecia" or the "Greek Valley".
Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania.
West Los Angeles – historically, the Toy District in Downtown LA had Greeks.

Iceland

Gimli, Manitoba, Canada – thought to be the largest Icelandic community outside Iceland.
Spanish Fork, Utah – large concentration, most of them are Mormon in religion. See Icelandic Heritage in Spanish Fork, Utah
Washington Island, Wisconsin – an estimated 20% of Icelandic descent.

Ireland

Boston, Massachusetts (portions and many suburbs) – largest Irish city outside Ireland. Peak percentage nearing 50% in 1920 after 70 years of immigration.
Irish Hill, Louisville (historic)

Italy

Little Italy, Los Angeles, California (historic; now Chinatown).
Little Italy, Manhattan, New York City – now engulfed by expanded Chinatown. and much of Long Island and Rochester
Little Italy, San Diego, California.
"Little Tuscany", Palm Springs, California.
McAlester, Oklahoma in historic Choctaw Nation.
Palm Desert, California
Providence, Rhode Island
Teterboro, New Jersey.
Tontitown, Arkansas – resettlement of earlier Italian community in Lake Village, Arkansas.
Via Italia, San Pedro, California.
Yorktown, New York
Italian Canadians in Greater Montreal: La Petite-Italie, Saint-Leonard (Città Italiana), Rivière-des-Prairies, Montreal-Nord, LaSalle, and the Saint-Raymond area of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
Italian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area: Little Italy, Corso Italia

Luxembourg

Naperville, Illinois – also Liechtenstein residents.^{[citation needed]}
Port Washington, Wisconsin.
St. Donatus, Iowa.

Malta

The Junction, Toronto, Ontario. Little Malta is in the western part of this Toronto neighbourhood.
Astoria, Queens has a Little Malta.

Poland

Portugal

Fall River, Massachusetts – Has the highest concentration of Portuguese Americans in the United States at 43.9%.
Allentown, Pennsylvania – including Brazilians and other Latin Americans.
Artesia, California – sizable, in the "International District", known for ethnic diversity.
Little Portugal, Newark, New Jersey (Ironbound section).
Little Portugal North, San Jose and Little Portugal South, San Jose
Little Portugal, Toronto

Russia

Orange Park, Florida in the Jacksonville, Florida area – from throughout the former USSR and Soviet Bloc (Eastern Europe).
Brighton Beach, New York in the Brooklyn area – large Ukrainian and Russian communities.
Woodburn, Oregon – large Russian Old believer community as well as Russian Molokans, Doukhobors and recent refugees from the former Soviet Union: Ukrainian and Russian Pentecostals and Baptists.
Little Russia, Richmond District, San Francisco, California - Small part of San Francisco’s Richmond district. Large Chinese population as well.

Scandinavia

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (est. 10% Norwegian ancestry and other Scandinavians).^{[citation needed]}

Serbia

Boyle Heights, Los Angeles (historic, Serbian-Americans moved out in 1940s-50s).

Slovenia

Eveleth, Minnesota.
St. Vitus Village, Cleveland (Slovenian Village).
Pueblo, Colorado

United Kingdom

Cornwall

Butte, Montana.
Deadwood, South Dakota.
Grass Valley, California.
Iron Ranges of northern Michigan.
Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
Pachuca, Mexico (large Cornish-British colony).
Tangier Island, Virginia.

Wales

Gallia County, Ohio – a.k.a. Little Wales.
Sharon, Pennsylvania.

Middle East, Caucasus, and Central Asia

Largest Arab-American and Middle eastern enclaves.

Chicago – A section of city nicknamed "Little Iraq", Chicago has the largest Iraqi community in the USA. Little Arabia in the city's Northwest side, for example, has many Arab-Americans.Devon Avenue (Chicago) also has Arabs, Iranians and South Asians such as Pashtun Americans.
Cleveland, Ohio – west side.
Detroit (i.e. Southwest side) – over 300,000 Arab-Americans in its Metro area, another 300,000 throughout Michigan, the city and state is the largest Arab-American community in the USA. Dearborn is their cultural center in the region. Also in nearby Dearborn Heights.
Montreal – includes North African (esp. Moroccans) immigrants, Lebanese and Syrians.
Orange County, California – 250,000 out of 500,000 Arab-Americans in Greater Los Angeles. Brookhurst Street in Anaheim is called "Little Arabia" or "Little Gaza" named for the Gaza Strip, as well West Bank of Anaheim named for the West Bank in the Occupied Palestinian Territories .
Ottawa – Canada's capital city has one of the largest Arab/middle eastern populations in Canada. One in ten Arabs in Canada live in Ottawa.
San Diego, California metro area – eastern San Diego metro area - Little Baghdad in El Cajon and along El Cajon Boulevard in East San Diego and La Mesa, California).
Oakland, California - Estimated 10,000 Yemenis

Afghanistan

Chicago, Illinois has a "Little Kabul".
Sacramento County, California - By far the largest Afghan immigrant population in the US, with 15,400 at last count.
Ventura County, California – Afghans and Iranians relocated to the area (the most in Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks).
New Mexico – there is a small but growing community of Afghan refugees in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho and Las Cruces. The majority are Pashtun but there are some Hazara and other ethnic groups. The community is religiously diverse with Sunni and Shia Muslims, Ismailis and irreligious.
Little Kabul, Fremont, California - Largest concentration are in the "Little Kabul Neighborhood", but they are spread throughout Fremont as well.
Hayward, California
Newark, California
Livermore, California - small but growing population

Armenia

Fresno, California (Old Armenian Town off Ventura Blvd)
Glendale, California (Armenian American cultural center) and nearby Atwater Village, Los Angeles. See also Distribution of Armenians in Los Angeles county

Kurds

Binghamton, New York
Dallas, Texas and its area.
Houston, Texas.
Los Angeles, California.
Nashville, Tennessee (cultural center) – around 20,000 in the city.
Santa Barbara, California-Ventura County, California region in Southern California – may have the most Kurds in the USA.
Watertown, Massachusetts, suburb of Boston.

South/Latin America and Caribbean

Anaheim, California – 46% Mexican, large Salvadoran population, and Puerto Rican community.
Excelsior District, San Francisco, California.
Miami-Dade County, Florida (Miami metro area has the largest Cuban population in the US with an estimate of 1 million Cuban-American residents with a large presence of Haitians, Jamaicans, Colombians, Brazilians, Nicaraguans, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans throughout the county)
New York City Most Hispanics/Latinos of any US city, large Hispanic/Latino communities.
Providence, Rhode Island - The state itself has a large and growing Latino community. Large Presence of Dominican, Guatemalan, and Puerto Rican Community
East Oakland, California

Toronto, Canada, North York (Jane St. and Wilson Ave.)

Growing Mexican,(central American) Salvadoran, (South American) Colombian and Ecuadorean population concentrated in the city’s north west area.

Central and South America

Anaheim, California and nearby West Anaheim, California in Orange County.
Boston, Massachusetts – also Dominican and Puerto Rican sections - esp the South end.

Guatemala

The Kimmeytown neighborhood in Georgetown, Delaware
Indigenous Mayan immigrants from Guatemala in north Georgia, especially in Cherokee County.

El Salvador

Except Puerto Ricans (fourth as a nationality, second in ancestry among Hispanics and Latinos), Salvadorans are the second largest Hispanic/Latino ethnicity in the US, close to Dominicans who are third. Large Salvadoran communities developed in the late 20th–early 21st century period as a result of civil war, economic conditions, political turmoil and gang violence in the country, the country El Salvador is among the smallest in size in the Western Hemisphere. The largest Salvadoran population is in Central parts of Los Angeles and throughout California (i.e. the Coachella Valley/Riverside county) along with Central American groups like Guatemalans, Hondurans and Nicaraguans. Recent census data shows that for the first time, there are more Salvadorans living on Long Island than Puerto Ricans, with Salvadorans now numbering nearly 100,000, representing nearly a quarter of all Hispanics in the region, making them the largest Latino group in Long Island (New York State).

Washington, D.C. (esp. Mount Pleasant), and nearby Maryland and Northern Virginia suburbs. Formerly known as Arlandria, a neighborhood between Alexandria and Arlington in Virginia is now referred to as Chirilagua, due to the many Salvadorans living there from that particular town.

Mexico

Note: Since immigrants from Mexico have been the largest group for a long time and have spread throughout the country perhaps more than any other nationality in recent times, Mexican-American enclaves are far more numerous than this list would suggest.

Altus, Oklahoma
Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California (gentrifying).
Downey, California – most affluent Mexican-American community.
East Los Angeles, California – historic urban Mexican-American enclave (see Chicano).
Guymon, Oklahoma – in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Huntington Park, California
Indio, California – over half Mexican, esp. from Michoacán.
Logan Heights, San Diego, California (also known for Chicano Park).
Oakland, Topeka, Kansas

Redlands, California – Barrio Judeo or Negro (also had many Jews and African-Americans).
Riverside, California – especially the East Side.
Wilmington, Los Angeles, California.
San Jose, California – Largest population in Eastside
Mission District
North Fair Oaks, California
Merced, California
El Paso, Texas

West Indies and Caribbean

Blue Hills, Connecticut (23.9% Jamaican, highest Jamaican population in the US).
Little Haiti, Miami
Little Havana, Miami
Divina Providencia, Tijuana, Baja California – known as Pequeña Haití
The Triangle, North Carolina (Cuban, as well Puerto Rican and increasingly Mexican neighborhoods).
Louisville, Kentucky (Cuban – especially in Okolona (40219 with over 10%,) the 40213 zip code, and to a much lesser extent 40214)
Westchester, Florida (65.69% Cuban, highest Cuban population in the US)
Westside Simi Valley, California – some Puerto Rican, but more Mexican section of largely Anglo city.

Pacific Islands and Oceania

Including Native Hawaiians or Kanaka Maoli in the mainland US, esp the west coast states of CA, NV, OR and WA.

Samoa

Tonga

Marshall Islands

Fiji

Micronesia

Honolulu, Hawaii

Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (Chamorro and Carolinians)

Others

Jews (of many nationalities)

Jewtown, Port Richmond, Staten Island, NYC
Kiryas Joel, New York near Monroe, New York – homogeneously Hasidic Jewish private housing tract. Similar communities Kiryas Square, New York and New Square, New York.
Lakewood, New Jersey – Large Orthodox Jewish community, and one of US' largest populations of Hasidim.
Lombard Street (Baltimore) (Jewtown, Baltimore) – also was an Italian neighborhood.
Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley, etc.)
Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City (historic) – NYC is world's largest Jewish community outside Israel (10–20% of Jewish faith or descent, or 1.1 million – 1.5 million observant Jews).
Petaluma, California

Native Americans

Urban Indians, communities developed by small enclaves of Native Americans/First Nations and Alaskan Natives since the 1930s. They tend to form small percentages of the urban areas' population. Virtually every major city in the US has an American Indian community. See Rancherie/ Ranchería for urban Indian parts of Las Vegas, Nevada and Reno, Nevada. Urban Indian reserves in Canada have also been located within Canadian cities.

The highest concentration of urban Indians in the United States is believed to be in Anchorage, Alaska where over 10 percent of the population identify themselves in the census as having some Native ancestry, with 7.3 percent identifying that as their only ancestry. In the mainland USA, Indian Alley in downtown Los Angeles, California, may be the most dense Native American population of any major city.

The second highest concentration of urban Indians in the U.S. is Albuquerque, New Mexico where at least 5 percent of the population belong to recognized Native American tribes such as the Navajo, Apache and Pueblo (Keresan, Tiwa, Tewa, Towa, Zuni). Southeast Albuquerque has the largest Native American community in the city but Native communities can also be found on the Westside and Rio Rancho. Albuquerque also has a Cherokee diaspora community known as the Cherokee Southwest Township. A much larger percentage of the population possess some Native ancestry but identity as Hispanos, Mestizos or Genizaros. This population lives all over the Albuquerque metro area but is concentrated in the South Valley and Bernalillo.

Winnipeg, Manitoba has the largest indigenous population of any major city in Canada both in terms of percentage (12.2 percent) and total number. Other Canadian cities with significant First Nations populations include Prince George, British Columbia and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

- San Francisco Bay Area – The US' largest, mainly in Oakland
- Phoenix, Arizona near the Gila and Salt Rivers tribes and reservations.
- Tulsa, Oklahoma and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Smaller off-reservation cities and towns with significant Native American populations include:

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