Brookings: San Francisco, Oakland Among U.S. Cities Gaining White Population After Decades of Loss
By Sharon Simonson
Whites are returning to America’s cities including San Francisco and Oakland, reversing what had become persistent outmigration.
In the two decades from 1990 to 2010, America’s 50 largest cities experienced a net loss of more than two million people who identified themselves as white, according to the new findings from The Brookings Institution’s William Frey based on U.S. Census Bureau data. In the first four years of the current decade, the same 50 cities experienced a net gain of nearly 500,000 white people.
Young adults aged 25- to 34-years-old and their young children are leading the shift, along with older adults aged 55 to 74, Frey found.
“The impetus for this change is undoubtedly related to the post 2010 revival of big city growth that has been d...