Mapping Immigrant America

[Brittain33]

1 dot = 20 people from a world region.

http://personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker/immigrant-america/

[Sol]

I don't understand why so much of NYC is orange for Europeans. I can understand that in Manhattan, but why southern Brooklyn? Are more Hasidic Jews immigrants than I thought?

[The Free North]

Is this all immigrants...ever, or just from a certain timeframe onwards?

[The Free North]

Also my street has a South Asian dot despite it being populated by 6 households of European ancestry and 1 Korean household.

[Brittain33]

I don't understand why so much of NYC is orange for Europeans. I can understand that in Manhattan, but why southern Brooklyn? Are more Hasidic Jews immigrants than I thought?

Each dot represents 20 people. The population is so dense there that the relatively small number of people, mostly older, could show up as a saturated smear of color.

[Flake]

Is this all immigrants...ever, or just from a certain timeframe onwards?

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[cinyc]

I don't understand why so much of NYC is orange for Europeans. I can understand that in Manhattan, but why southern Brooklyn? Are more Hasidic Jews immigrants than I thought?

Southern Brooklyn, Brighton Beach in particular, has a large Russian immigrant population.  Many of those Russian immigrants are Jewish, but not necessarily as orthodox as Hasidim.

[King of Kensington]

I don't understand why so much of NYC is orange for Europeans. I can understand that in Manhattan, but why southern Brooklyn? Are more Hasidic Jews immigrants than I thought?

Lots of immigrants from the FSU went to Brooklyn.  Also southern Brooklyn (Bensonhurst area) received a lot of Italian immigrants after WWII, though I'm sure their numbers have shrunk quite a bit in the last 20 years or so due to the elderly dying off and migration to the suburbs.