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From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies. Temple University Press, 2001. ISBN 1566398363, 9781566398367. Vázquez-Hernández, Víctor. "From Pan-Latino Enclaves to a Community:Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia, 1910-2000" (Chapter 4). In: Whalen, Carmen Teresa and Víctor Vázquez-Hernández (editors).
The Hispanic and Latino population in Philadelphia has seen growth by 27% in the past 10 years and has grown rapidly since the year 2000. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, Philadelphia County is 14.86% Latino. [1] [2] In the 2000 U.S. Census Puerto Ricans were Philadelphia's largest Latino group followed by Mexicans. [3]
Starting in 1925, the Pennsylvania National Guard used the present airport site (known as Hog Island) as a training airfield.The site was dedicated as the "Philadelphia Municipal Airport" by Charles Lindbergh in 1927, but it had no proper terminal building until 1940; airlines used Camden Central Airport in nearby Pennsauken Township, New Jersey.
Barrio Logan in San Diego is 3% Puerto Rican, well over California's 0.6% Puerto Rican figure. Other areas, like the North Island Naval Air Station , have a large Puerto Rican American military personnel presence.
The demographics of Upper North Philadelphia shows that the area has a population density of 12,241 people per mile with an average household size of 3 and 37% of households had children. There is a 17% annual residential turnover rate with 47% of residents staying for more than 5 years, with an average of 6 years of residency.
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Stateside Puerto Ricans [4] [5] (Spanish: Puertorriqueños en Estados Unidos), also ambiguously known as Puerto Rican Americans (Spanish: puertorriqueño-americanos, [6] [7] puertorriqueño-estadounidenses), [8] [9] or Puerto Ricans in the United States, are Puerto Ricans who are in the United States proper of the 50 states and the District of Columbia who were born in or trace any family ...
Fairhill, among other areas of eastern North Philadelphia, is known for having some of the highest concentrations of Puerto Ricans in the United States outside Puerto Rico (which is a US territory). [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Furthermore, the area west of 5th street is over two-thirds Hispanic, with the remaining nearly one-third being black, while areas of ...