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Majority white for most of its history, Baltimore transitioned to having a black majority in the 1970s. [10] As of the 2010 Census, African Americans are the majority population of Baltimore at 63% of the population, with a total population of 417,009 people. [11]
In the 1790 census, the first census in the history of the United States, African American constituted 11.7% of Baltimore's population. 1,578 lived in Baltimore in that year. [4] From 1800 until 1840, African Americans were between a fifth and a quarter of Baltimore's population. The African-American population decreased in the 1850s to around 17%.
Map of racial distribution in Baltimore, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: White, Black, Asian Hispanic, or Other (yellow) The history of White Americans in Baltimore dates back to the 17th century when the first white European colonists came to what is now Maryland and established the Province of Maryland on what was then Native American land.
The history of Hispanics and Latinos in Baltimore dates back to the mid-20th century. The Hispanic and Latino community of Baltimore is the fastest growing ethnic group in the city. There is a significant Hispanic/Latino presence in many Southeast Baltimore neighborhoods, particularly Highlandtown , Upper Fell's Point , and Greektown .
In 2009, more than one out of every ten immigrants in the Baltimore-Towson, MD metro area (14.5 percent) were immigrants from Africa. [3] As of 2010, there were 28,834 immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in Baltimore. [4] In February 2011, the Sudanese community of Baltimore numbered only 185 people.
Maryland's population increased by almost 5% from 2010 to 2019 to a little more than 6 million residents, according to newly released data from last year's Census. Baltimore City officials have ...
Although Baltimore had experienced an influx in its African American population around the turn of the century, the start of the First World War and the increased availability of urban industry jobs spurred the Great Migration, leading Baltimore like other Northern cities to experience a surge in its African American population, particularly ...
In 1999, Maryland was home to at least a dozen white-supremacist hate groups, including the World Church of the Creator, six chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, the Baltimore branch of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, an Abingdon-based skinhead fraternity known as the Hammerskin Nation, and an Edgewater-based neo-Nazi group called SS Regalia.