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n 1950, Whites represented 94.7% of Boston's population.[127] In 2000, non-Hispanic whites made up 49.5% of the city's population. Today, non-Hispanic whites make up 44.9% of the population. [ https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/bostoncitymassachusetts/PST045218 ]. People of Irish descent form the largest single ethnic group in the city, making up 15.8% of the population, followed by Italians, accounting for 8.3% of the population. People of West Indian and Caribbean ancestry are another sizable group, at 6.0%,[133] about half of whom are of Haitian ancestry. Over 27,000 Chinese Americans made their home in Boston city proper in 2013,[134]. The city and greater area also has a growing immigrant population of South Asians, including the tenth-largest Indian population in the country.

Blacks/African-Americans represents 25.3% of the population, and neighborhoods such as the toney Fort Hill/Highland Park area in Roxbury, as well as Mattapan are well represented.

In 2010, Hispanics in Boston were mostly of Puerto Rican (30,506 or 4.9% of total city population), Dominican (25,648 or 4.2% of total city population), Salvadoran (10,850 or 1.8% of city population), Colombian (6,649 or 1.1% of total city population), Mexican (5,961 or 1.0% of total city population), and Guatemalan (4,451 or 0.7% of total city population) ethnic origin. Hispanics of all national origins totaled 107,917 in 2010. In Greater Boston, these numbers grew significantly, with Puerto Ricans numbering 175,000+, Dominicans 95,000+, Salvadorans 40,000+, Guatemalans 31,000+, Mexicans 25,000+, and Colombians numbering 22,000+.[136] The East Boston neighborhood has a significant Hispanic population.

MacCour8 (talk) 18:45, 7 September 2019 (UTC)