This was the fourth largest rate of growth among the nation's top 100 metros, after Baltimore, Orlando and Las Vegas. Map: Explore how Metro Atlanta precincts vote for president on Nov. 3, 2020, with live updates every five minutes. The city long consisted overwhelmingly of blacks and non-Hispanic whites; those groups made up 92.1% of the city in 1990, but by 2010 their proportion had shrunk to 85.0%. [81], In 2008, approximately 83.3% of the population five years and older spoke only English at home, which is roughly 4,125,000 people. The Consulate General of Japan in Atlanta estimated that, during that year, 3,500 to 4,000 Japanese lived in Greater Atlanta. The largest Asian groups are 78,980 Indians, 43,870 Koreans, 37,660 Chinese and 36,554 Vietnamese. White Americans made up 55.4% of metro Atlanta's population, a relative decrease from 63.0% ten years earlier, but still an absolute increase of over 330,000 people. "Gwinnett is now a minority majority county", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU M", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU E", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU A", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU B", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU C", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU G", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU J", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU K", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU L", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU D", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU N", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU O", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU W", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU H", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU I", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU P", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU Q", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU R", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU S", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU T", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU V", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU X", "City of Atlanta 2010 Census Summary Report, NPU Z", "12.9% in Seattle are gay or bisexual, second only to S.F., study says", "Same-sex Couples and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Population: New Estimates from the American Community Survey", https://www.atlanta.net/explore/lgbt/events/, "City of Atlanta annexation database Case ID ANX-1889-001", "City of Atlanta annexation database Case ID ANX-1894-001", Annexation Map of Atlanta, City of Atlanta, revised 1981, City of Atlanta annexation database Case ID ANX-1910-004, City of Atlanta annexation database Case ID ANX-1910-003, City of Atlanta Annexation database, Case ANX-1952-005, https://statisticalatlas.com/place/Georgia/Atlanta/Ancestry, https://www.osia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IA_Profile.pdf, EDUCATION IS MADE IN JAPAN, EXPORTED TO ATLANTA, https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/immigrants-in-georgia, http://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2014/acs/acsbr12-16_supptabs.pdf%3F&ved=2ahUKEwi1hIvN1f3iAhUKQ8AKHbE1CewQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw05-Ig84jMtT-iP808Iae1F&cshid=1561226477425, http://documents.atlantaregional.com/gawsnapshots/ethiopian.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiM2PqR1_3iAhXFilwKHevTAPYQFjAVegQIChAB&usg=AOvVaw2f74h8QdzyHfLg4EPn_J4B, Major U.S. metropolitan areas differ in their religious profiles, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Atlanta&oldid=984088944, Demographics by city in the United States, Articles with dead external links from September 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles with dead external links from October 2017, Articles with dead external links from March 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2012, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Thomasville Heights, Glenrose Park, Southern Jonesboro Rd Corridor, 60% of the city's area consists of predominantly black neighborhoods: together, Northwest, Southwest, and Southeast Atlanta are 92% black, there are some areas that are predominantly white, notably Buckhead and Northeast Atlanta (NPUs F and N) which are on average 80% white, most of the fastest growing areas are central: Downtown (25.9%), Midtown, West Midtown, close-in east side neighborhoods (NPU N) (18.4%), population loss in areas of Northwest Atlanta (avg. People who speak an Asian language at home numbered over 137,000 and made up 2.8% of the population. "Atlanta: The City of the Next Generation". The bill would allow renters to pay the deposit in installments. It ranked third of all major cities, behind San Francisco and slightly behind Seattle, with 12.8% of the city's total population recognizing themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. "the city that calls itself America's ' Black Mecca'" in "Atlanta Is Less Than Festive on Eve of Another 'Freaknik'", "The Black Mecca leads the nation in numbers of African American millionaires; at the same time, it leads the nation in the percentage of its children in poverty" in, "the city that earned a national reputation as America's 'black mecca'" in, "the cornerstone upon which today's 'Black Mecca' was built" in, "And, they said, don't forget Atlanta's reputation as a black mecca" in, "Atlanta's allure as the black mecca" in, " the Southern capital regarded as the nation's black mecca" in, “Atlanta is a city that is known as the black mecca" in, "Some people call Atlanta the Black Mecca" in. In NPU O (Edgewood, Kirkwood, East Lake area), the black population went from 86.2% to 58.7%, and the white proportion rose from 11.3% to 36.9%. Political Map of Georgia Atlanta PowerPoint. Based in central Fulton and parts of DeKalb and Clayton counties, the majority black district includes almost three-fourths of Atlanta, the state capital and largest city. This demographic change and its possible historic effect on Atlanta's city government was a factor that, among others, helped draw supporters of both candidates to the polls. The first installment of the Gulch Housing Trust Fund in the amount of $4.6 million dollars will help offset rising property taxes. 1900 - 89,872, including 2500 persons of foreign birth and 35,900 of African descent.

[21] By 2010, Atlanta's white population had increased by 22,763 people.

[citation needed], In 1990 Greater Atlanta had the largest Japanese population in the Southeast United States. The district was represented by Democrat John Lewis from January 3, 1987 until his death on July 17, 2020. However, from 1970 to 2000, the city lost over 100,000 residents, a decrease of around 16 percent. "Atlanta emerges as a center of black entertainment", https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/oct/23/nowhere-for-people-to-go-who-will-survive-the-gentrification-of-atlanta, "Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility", "A census speeds Atlanta toward racially neutral ground - Political In…", "Thomas Wheatley, "Atlanta's census numbers reveal dip in black population – and lots of people who mysteriously vanished", Creative Loafing, March 21, 2011".