Metro Atlanta

===Race and ethnicity===
[[White American]]s made up 55.4% of metro Atlanta's population in 2010, a relative decrease from 63.0% ten years earlier, but in absolute numbers their population increased by over 330,000. Non-Hispanic whites proportionally dropped from 59.5% to 50.7% of the metro's population, while increasing by about 224,000.

[[Black American]]s are the largest racial minority with 32.4% of the population in 2010. Metro Atlanta has the second largest African American population behind the [[New York metropolitan area]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/#:~:text=Among%20metropolitan%20areas%2C%20the%20New,with%201.8%20million%20Black%20residents | title=Facts About the U.S. Black Population }}</ref> From 2000 to 2010, the geographic distribution of blacks in Metro Atlanta changed radically. Long concentrated in the city of Atlanta and DeKalb County, the black population there dropped as more than half a million African Americans settled across other parts of the metro area, including approximately 112,000 in Gwinnett County, 71,000 in Fulton outside Atlanta, 58,000 in Cobb, 50,000 in Clayton, 34,000 in Douglas, and 27,000 each in Newton and Rockdale counties.<ref>U.S. Census 2010 vs. 2000 population estimates by race.</ref> 

Due to its availability of jobs, Atlanta has been a destination for young college-educated blacks in the [[New Great Migration|Reverse Great Migration]] of African Americans from the North since the turn of the 21st century, with many settling quickly into suburban locations. The Atlanta metropolitan area has the second highest total African American population of any metropolitan area, with only the New York City metro area having more.

{| class="wikitable"
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! Year!! Black pop. in<br />City of Atlanta!! Black pop. in<br />DeKalb County!! Total black pop.<br />Atlanta + DeKalb !! Total black pop.<br />Metro Atlanta!! Proportion of black pop.<br />in Atlanta + DeKalb
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| 2000|| 255,689|| 361,111|| 616,800||1,189,179 || 51.9%
|-
| 2010||226,894 || 375,697||602,591 ||1,707,913|| 35.2%
|-
| 2020||246,906 || 407,451||641,923 ||2,186,815|| 29.4%
|}

[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic Americans]] are the fastest growing ethnic group. At 10.4% of the metro's population in 2010, versus only 6.5% in 2000, the metro's Hispanic population increased an astounding 109.6%, or 298,459 people, in ten years. Major Hispanic groups include 354,351 [[Mexican American|Mexicans]], 43,337 [[Puerto Rican American|Puerto Ricans]] and 17,648 [[Cuban American|Cubans]]. All of those groups' populations increased by over 90% in the ten-year period. Of the metro's 299,000-person increase in the Hispanic population from 2000 to 2010, 98,000 were in Gwinnett County, 57,000 in Cobb, 55,000 in Fulton (all but 3,000 outside the city of Atlanta), 20,000 in Hall, and 15,000 in DeKalb County.<ref>[https://www.census.gov/census2000/xls/ga_tab_5.xls U.S. Census 2000] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170726233430/https://www.census.gov/census2000/xls/ga_tab_5.xls |date=2017-07-26 }} and 2010 data</ref>

The [[Asian American|Asian-American]] population also increased rapidly from 2000 to 2010. There were 296,956 Asian-Americans in the metro area in 2010, making up 5.9% of the population. This represented an 87% increase over 2000. The largest Asian groups are 108,980 [[Indian American|Indian-Americans]], 93,870 [[Korean American|Korean-American]]s, 67,660 [[Chinese Americans|Chinese-Americans]], and 66,554 [[Vietnamese Americans|Vietnamese-Americans]].

Atlanta also has Georgia's largest [[Bosnian American|Bosnian-American]] population, with approximately 10,000 in the metro area, mainly in Gwinnett County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cair.com/press-center/cair-in-the-news/7834-ga-cultural-center-follows-bosnians.html|title=CAIR in the News|first=IP|last=Admins|website=cair.com|access-date=15 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105114657/https://cair.com/press-center/cair-in-the-news/7834-ga-cultural-center-follows-bosnians.html|archive-date=2014-11-05|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Metro Atlanta has an increasingly international population, with 716,434 foreign-born residents in 2010, a 69% increase since 2000, with suburban Gwinnett County being one of the most diverse counties in the Southeastern United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.curbed.com/2019/11/13/20952131/gwinnett-county-duluth-atlanta-suburbs-demographics|title = Duluth's 'demographic destiny train'|date = 13 November 2019|access-date = 30 November 2019|archive-date = 13 November 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191113205538/https://www.curbed.com/2019/11/13/20952131/gwinnett-county-duluth-atlanta-suburbs-demographics|url-status = live}}</ref> This was the fourth largest rate of growth among the nation's top 100 metros, after [[Baltimore]], [[Orlando]] and [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]]. The foreign-born proportion of the population went up from 10.3% to 13.6%, and Atlanta moved up from 14th to 12th in ranking of U.S.&nbsp;metro areas with the largest immigrant population by sheer numbers. Still, its 13.6% proportion of immigrants is only the 29th&nbsp;highest of the nation's top 100 metros.<ref name="brookings2011">{{cite web|url=http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2011/1013_immigration_wilson_singer/1013_immigration_wilson_singer.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016214709/http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2011/1013_immigration_wilson_singer/1013_immigration_wilson_singer.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 October 2011|title=[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Internet Memory – NLI Web Archive|first=Internet Memory|last=Foundation|access-date=15 October 2017}}</ref>

Metro Atlanta's immigrants are more suburban than those of most cities. Out of the top 100 U.S.&nbsp;metros, Atlanta has the 11th&nbsp;highest ratio of the foreign-born living in the suburbs and not in the core city.<ref name="brookings2011" /> Atlanta has a few [[ethnic enclave]]s such as a [[Koreatown]], and areas such as the [[Buford Highway Corridor]] in DeKalb County and parts of [[Gwinnett County]] are commercial centers for multiple ethnic communities.

In 1990, greater Atlanta had the largest Japanese population in the Southeast United States. The [[Consulate General of Japan in Atlanta]] estimated that, during that year, 7,500 to 10,000 Japanese lived in greater Atlanta. Of the metropolitan areas in the Southeast United States, as of 1990 greater Atlanta had the most extensive education network for Japanese nationals.<ref name="Lively">Lively, Kit. "[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/orlandosentinel/access/90334349.html?dids=90334349:90334349&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+24%2C+1990&author=Kit+Lively+Of+The+Sentinel+Staff&pub=Orlando+Sentinel&desc=EDUCATION+IS+MADE+IN+JAPAN%2C+EXPORTED+TO+ATLANTA&pqatl=google Education is made in Japan, exported to Atlanta] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107185848/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/orlandosentinel/access/90334349.html?dids=90334349:90334349&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+24%2C+1990&author=Kit+Lively+Of+The+Sentinel+Staff&pub=Orlando+Sentinel&desc=EDUCATION+IS+MADE+IN+JAPAN%2C+EXPORTED+TO+ATLANTA&pqatl=google |date=2012-11-07 }}." ''[[Orlando Sentinel]]''. December 24, 1990. A1. Retrieved on January 11, 2012.</ref>