Identity & heritage community ranking

Top Other Subsaharan African communities in U.S. city markets.

Explore where this community is largest and where it represents the greatest share of the local city market. The default ranking lens is 2024 ACS ancestry response (B04006_088E).

Identity discovery only — never a score. Census ancestry, ethnicity, origin, race, and birthplace measures can overlap. V3.4.3 keeps those lenses separate and never adds them together. Identity context never changes the Follow Your Heart Index or any component score.

Top 10 by population

Largest communities

Estimated population under the governed default identity lens.

Rank	City and state	Community population	City-market population
#1	New York, New York	33,392	8,468,353
#2	Houston, Texas	9,327	3,320,004
#3	Silver Spring, Maryland	7,442	309,699
#4	Charlotte, North Carolina	5,394	926,122
#5	Columbus, Ohio	5,223	626,444
#6	Chicago, Illinois	5,218	2,694,535
#7	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	5,139	1,580,199
#8	Louisville, Kentucky	5,107	780,810
#9	Dallas, Texas	5,102	1,224,625
#10	Fort Worth, Texas	4,802	938,272

Top 10 by representation

Highest community share

Share of the full city-market population under the same governed lens.

Rank	City and state	Community share	City-market population
#1	Portland, Maine	4.19%	68,761
#2	Langley Park, Maryland	3.03%	50,333
#3	Bowie, Maryland	2.53%	105,324
#4	Silver Spring, Maryland	2.40%	309,699
#5	Saginaw, Texas	2.10%	56,322
#6	Kentwood, Michigan	1.92%	130,591
#7	Brooklyn Park, Minnesota	1.73%	63,765
#8	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	1.59%	145,496
#9	Bowling Green, Kentucky	1.54%	131,346
#10	Germantown, Maryland	1.52%	99,113

Governed identity lenses

One community can have more than one Census lens.

Ancestry: 2024 ACS ancestry response (B04006_088E) — default ranking lens

The default lens controls this page's rankings. Secondary lenses remain preserved in the publication contract and are not combined with the default measure.

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