Editing Port of Spain (section)

== Demographics and architecture ==

Port of Spain has a population of 18,008 males and 19,066 females, with 5,694 businesses and is home to 12,333 households with an average size of 2.9 according to the 2011 census. The city experienced an average annual growth rate of −2.3% between the censuses of 2000 and 2011<ref name="cso.gov.tt"/>

Port of Spain's diverse population reflects two centuries of immigration and this shows in the architecture of its buildings. The city features French colonial 'ginger bread' style houses, buildings with New Orleans reminiscent wrought-iron railings and wooden fretwork set beside modern high-rise towers and strip malls with a mish-mash of gothic-style cathedrals, mosques and Hindu temples testifying to the diversity of cultures.<ref>[http://www.iexplore.com/world_travel/Trinidad+and+Tobago/Information Trinidad and Tobago Travel Guide | Information] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331212724/http://www.iexplore.com/world_travel/Trinidad+and+Tobago/Information |date=31 March 2009 }}. Iexplore.com. Retrieved 24 August 2012.</ref> It is home to [[Afro-Trinidadian and Tobagonian|African]], [[Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian|Indian]], French, English, Irish, [[Scottish people|Scottish]], [[Welsh people|Welsh]], [[Spaniards|Spanish]], [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]], [[Venezuelans|Venezuelan]], Colombian, [[Bajans|Bajan]], [[Guyanese people|Guyanese]], [[Jamaicans|Jamaican]], Guadeloupean, [[Martinique|Martinicquan]], Dominican, Saint Lucian, [[Grenadians|Grenadian]], [[Bahamians|Bahamian]], [[Belizeans|Belizean]], [[Surinamese people|Surinamese]], [[Chinese Trinidadian|Chinese]], Jewish, and [[Arab]] immigrants, most of them arriving since the Spanish Cedula of Population of 1783. Prominent Port of Spain citizens include [[Derek Walcott]] (Nobel Prize Literature 1992)<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/walcott-bio.html Derek Walcott – Biography]. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 24 August 2012.</ref> and former West Indies cricketer [[Brian Lara]].

{{Historical populations
|title       = Historical populations
|type        = Trinidad and Tobago
|align       = right
|width       = 20%;
|state       = 
|shading     = 
|percentages = 
|footnote    = Port of Spain annexed St. James in 1938.
|1901 |54100
|1946 |92793
|1960 |93954
|1970 |73950
|1988 |59200
|2000 |49031
|2011 |37074
}}

{| class="wikitable" style="float:lowerleft; margin-left:3px;text-size:90%; text-align:left"
|+[[East–West Corridor]] population
|-
!Administrative Corporation !! Population
|-
|Port of Spain ||align=center| 37,074
|-
|Diego Martin ||align=center| 102,957
|-
|San Juan/Laventille ||align=center| 157,258
|-
|Tunapuna/Piarco ||align=center| 215,119
|-
|Arima ||align=center| 33,606
|-
|Total ||align=center| 546,014
|-

!Source: 2011 Census<ref name="cso.gov.tt">[http://cso.gov.tt/ Home]. Cso.gov.tt. Retrieved 12 July 2016.</ref>!!
|}
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=== Ancestry ===

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" style="font-size: 90%;"
|+ '''City of Port of Spain racial breakdown'''
|-
! Racial composition  !! 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=https://guardian.co.tt/sites/default/files/story/2011_DemographicReport.pdf|title=NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION BY SEX, AGE GROUP, ETHNIC GROUP AND MUNICIPALITY|author=Central Statistical Office|access-date=6 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019211618/https://guardian.co.tt/sites/default/files/story/2011_DemographicReport.pdf|archive-date=19 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
|-

| [[Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians|Black (Afro-Trinidadian/Tobagonian)]] ||51.5%
|-
| [[Multiracial]] || 19.4%
|-
| [[Dougla]] (Indian and Black) || 10.3% 
|-
| [[Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian|Indians (Indo-Trinidadian)]] || 9.5%
|-
| [[White Trinidadian and Tobagonian|White Trinidadian]] || 1.6% 
|-
| [[Chinese Trinidadian and Tobagonian|East Asian (Chinese)]] || 1% 
|-
| [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American (Amerindian)]] || 0.2% 
|-
| [[Arabs|Arab (Syrian/Lebanese)]] || 0.4%
|-
| Other || 0.6%
|-
| Not stated || 5%
|}