BALTIMORE, MD—With immigration reform remaining a hot-button issue in 2023 and senators attempting to craft a bipartisan bill, the personal-finance website WalletHub this week released its report on 2023’s Most & Least Ethnically Diverse Cities.
To identify the most ethnically diverse places in America, WalletHub compared more than 500 of the largest U.S. cities across three key metrics: ethno-racial diversity, linguistic diversity and birthplace diversity.
Four Maryland towns – Germantown, Gaithersburg, Silver Spring, and Rockville – all made the top ten.
| Most Ethnically Diverse Cities | Least Ethnically Diverse Cities |
| 1. Germantown, MD | 492. Laconia, NH |
| 2. Jersey City, NJ | 493. Bennington, VT |
| 3. Gaithersburg, MD | 494. Wheeling, WV |
| 4. Silver Spring, MD | 495. Butte-Silver Bow, MT |
| 5. New York, NY | 496. Laredo, TX |
| 6. Kent, WA | 497. Rutland, VT |
| 7. Spring Valley, NV | 498. Barre, VT |
| 8. Rockville, MD | 499. Hialeah, FL |
| 9. San Jose, CA | 500. Clarksburg, WV |
| 10.Oakland, CA | 501. Parkersburg, WV |
Key Stats
- Germantown, Maryland, has the highest racial and ethnic diversity, which is four times higher than in Hialeah, Florida, the city with the lowest.
- Hialeah, Florida, has the highest concentration of Hispanic or Latino people, at 95.82 percent.
- Brattleboro, Vermont, has the highest concentration of white people, at 94.34 percent.
- Jackson, Mississippi, has the highest concentration of black people, at 82.59 percent.
The full WalletHub report can be viewed online here.
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