Liberian American - Demography

Demography

Liberian American organizations estimate there are between 250,000 and 500,000 Liberians living now in the United States. This figure including to Liberians resident in the country that have a temporary status, and to American of Liberian descent. The metropolitan areas with the largest Liberian immigrant populations in the United States are New York and Washington, D.C.; other cities with significant numbers of Liberians include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Fort Worth, Texas, Hartford, Connecticut, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Oakland, California and Philadelphia. However, it is thought Rhode Island (specifically Providence) is the state with the largest Liberian population in the country, about 0.4% of the city's population (est. 200,000) are of Liberian ancestry.

The Most of Liberian American live in the east of United States (New York, New Jersey, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina). While that most Liberian Americans living on the west coast, live in California, especially in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland and Stockton. In fact, the Liberian Community Foundation in Vallejo, California, estimated that about 4,000 Liberians living in Northern California. Meanwhile, the Liberian Community Association of Southern California, estimates that another 2,000 Liberian Americans live in Southern California. Also Chicago have an important Liberian community because there is the Midwestern Consul General of the Honorary Liberian Consulate.

Many of the Liberian have formed families in United States, but some still have vowed to return to their country once the political and social situation stabilizes, which, however, according to the president of the Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas, Joseph D. Z. Korto, seems unlikely to happen in a "near future."