Sunday, April 24, 2011

Census ranks Seattle among whitest big cities | Seattle Times Newspaper

Local News | Census ranks Seattle among whitest big cities | Seattle Times Newspaper

Compared with other large U.S. cities, Seattle is pretty white.

Along with Portland, Seattle is among large U.S. cities in which the highest proportions of residents describe themselves as non-Hispanic white, based on 2010 census data.

In Seattle, 66 percent of all residents fit that category — the fifth-highest rate among the nation's 50 largest cities — higher even than Wichita, Kan., and Minneapolis.

Seattle rose two notches in the ranking from a decade ago, in part because other cities experienced higher growth in their Latino populations.

Portland's 72 percent white population was the highest in the country, a position unchanged from 10 years ago.


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