Editing Philadelphia (section)

===Immigration and cultural diversity===
[[File:Italian Market Vegetable Stand 3000px.jpg|thumb|Philadelphia's famed [[Italian Market, Philadelphia|Italian Market]] in [[South Philadelphia]]]]
[[File:13th Gayborhood.jpg|thumb|A [[LGBT culture in Philadelphia|Gayborhood]] [[Rainbow flag (LGBT movement)|street sign]] near [[Washington Square West, Philadelphia|Washington Square]]]]
In addition to the city's economic growth, the city's population has been fueled by foreign immigration. According to [[The Pew Charitable Trusts]], the city's [[foreign born|foreign-born]] population increased by 69% between 2000 and 2016 to constitute nearly 20% of Philadelphia's workforce,<ref name=PhiladelphiaImmigrants>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/nyregion/philadelphia-new-york-migration-immigrants.html |title=Leaving New York to Find the American Dream in Philadelphia |author=Matt Katz |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 20, 2018 |access-date=August 6, 2018 |archive-date=August 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807001508/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/nyregion/philadelphia-new-york-migration-immigrants.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and it doubled between 1990 and 2017 to constitute 13.8% of the city's total population, with the top five countries of origin being China by a significant margin followed by the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, India, and Vietnam.<ref name=PhiladelphiaForeignBorn>{{cite news |url=https://www.philly.com/news/immigrants-philly-population-growth-foreign-born-20190510.html |title=Welcome to Philly: Percentage of foreign-born city residents has doubled since 1990 |author=Jeff Gammage |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=May 10, 2019 |access-date=May 10, 2019 |quote=China is, far and away, the primary sending country, with 22,140 city residents who make up about 11 percent of the foreign-born population, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts analysis of Census data. Next is the Dominican Republic with 13,792, followed by Jamaica, 13,500; India, 11,382; and Vietnam, 10,132...About 230,000 Philadelphians are foreign-born. More than a quarter of residents are immigrants or have a foreign-born parent, Pew reported, and 23 percent speak a foreign language at home. |archive-date=May 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510180258/https://www.philly.com/news/immigrants-philly-population-growth-foreign-born-20190510.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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Top 10 countries of origin for foreign-born Philadelphians, 2017<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2019/04/the-state-of-immigrants-in-philadelphia-2019 |title=The State of Immigrants in Philadelphia, 2019 |date=April 11, 2019 |access-date=October 13, 2021 |archive-date=October 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211001200528/https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2019/04/the-state-of-immigrants-in-philadelphia-2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| {{Flagu|China}} ||align=right | {{formatnum:22140}}
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| {{Flagu|Dominican Republic}} ||align=right | {{formatnum:13792}}
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| {{Flagu|Jamaica}} ||align=right | {{formatnum:13500}}
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| {{Flagu|India}} ||align=right | {{formatnum:11382}}
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| {{Flagu|Vietnam}} ||align=right | {{formatnum:10132}}
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| {{Flagu|Haiti}} ||align=right | {{formatnum:9186}}
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| {{Flagu|Mexico}} ||align=right | {{formatnum:7823}}
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| {{Flagu|Ukraine}} ||align=right | {{formatnum:6898}}
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| {{Flagu|Albania}} ||align=right | {{formatnum:5258}}
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| {{Flagu|Korea}}/{{Flagu|North Korea}}||align=right | {{formatnum:4385}}
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Irish, Italian, German, Polish, English, Russian, Ukrainian, and French ancestries constitute the largest [[European emigration|European]] ethnic groups in the city.<ref name="2010 Ancestry">{{cite web |url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_5YR/B04006/1600000US4260000 |title=People Reporting Ancestry: 2011–2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=December 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213152124/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_5YR/B04006/1600000US4260000 |archive-date=February 13, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Philadelphia has the second-largest Irish and Italian populations in the United States after New York City. [[South Philadelphia]] remains one of the largest [[Italian-American|Italian]] neighborhoods in the country and is home to the [[Italian Market, Philadelphia|Italian Market]].

The [[Pennsport, Philadelphia|Pennsport]] neighborhood and [[Grays Ferry, Philadelphia|Gray's Ferry]] section of South Philadelphia, home to many [[Mummers Parade|Mummer]] clubs, are well known as [[Irish-American|Irish]] neighborhoods. The [[Kensington, Philadelphia|Kensington]], [[Port Richmond, Philadelphia|Port Richmond]], and [[Fishtown, Philadelphia|Fishtown]] neighborhoods have historically been heavily Irish and Polish. Port Richmond is a center for the Polish-American community in Philadelphia, and it remains a common destination for Polish immigrants. [[Northeast Philadelphia]], although known for its Irish and Irish-American population, is home to a Jewish and Russian population. [[Mount Airy, Philadelphia|Mount Airy]] in [[Northwest Philadelphia]] also contains a Jewish community. Nearby [[Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia|Chestnut Hill]] is historically known as an [[White Anglo-Saxon Protestant|Anglo-Saxon Protestant]] community.

Philadelphia's [[African Americans|Black American]] population is the fourth-largest in the country after New York City, Chicago, and [[Houston]]. [[West Philadelphia]] and [[North Philadelphia]] are largely African-American neighborhoods, but many are leaving those areas in favor of the Northeast and Southwest sections of Philadelphia. A higher proportion of [[African-American Muslims]] reside in Philadelphia than most other major U.S. cities. West Philadelphia and [[Southwest Philadelphia]] are home to various [[West Indian Americans|Afro-Caribbean]] and [[African immigration to the United States|African immigrant]] communities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Philadelphia immigration |url=http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/immigration-1930-present |publisher=Philadelphia immigration |date=August 5, 2013 |access-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310145147/http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/immigration-1930-present/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia|Puerto Rican]] population in Philadelphia is the second-largest on the U.S. mainland after New York City, and the second-fastest growing after [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://voxxi.com/2014/01/03/puerto-rico-population-decline-economic/ |title=Puerto Rico's population continues to decline as the economic plague persists |date=January 3, 2014 |work=Voxxi |access-date=September 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103154048/http://voxxi.com/2014/01/03/puerto-rico-population-decline-economic/ |archive-date=January 3, 2014 |author=Laura Sanchez Ubanell }}</ref> Eastern North Philadelphia, particularly [[Fairhill, Philadelphia|Fairhill]] and surrounding areas to the north and east, has one of the highest concentrations of Puerto Ricans outside Puerto Rico, with many large swaths of blocks being close to 100% Puerto Rican.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.congreso.net/census.php |title=Where is the "Latino Community" of Philadelphia? |access-date=September 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006120951/http://www.congreso.net/census.php |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.zip-codes.com/zip-code/19133/zip-code-19133.asp |title=ZIP Code 19133, Philadelphia PA (Pennsylvania) |website=www.zip-codes.com |access-date=September 15, 2022 |archive-date=September 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915024835/https://www.zip-codes.com/zip-code/19133/zip-code-19133.asp |url-status=live }}</ref> Puerto Rican and [[Dominican Americans|Dominican]] populations reside in [[North Philadelphia]] and the Northeast, and [[Mexican American|Mexican]] and Central American populations exist in South Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Latino Philadelphia at a Glance |url=http://hsp.org/sites/default/files/legacy_files/migrated/latinophiladelphiaataglance.pdf |publisher=Latino Philadelphia |access-date=October 4, 2017 |archive-date=January 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116131238/http://hsp.org/sites/default/files/legacy_files/migrated/latinophiladelphiaataglance.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> South American migrants were being transported by bus from [[Texas]] to Philadelphia beginning in 2022.<ref name=MigrantsTexasToPhiladelphia>{{cite news |url=https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/bus-immigrants-texas-philadelphia-asylum-greg-abbott-20221229.html?outputType=amp |title=City receives 15th bus carrying immigrants from Texas to Philadelphia |author=Robert Moran |newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=December 29, 2022 |access-date=February 22, 2023 |archive-date=February 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222230053/https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/bus-immigrants-texas-philadelphia-asylum-greg-abbott-20221229.html?outputType=amp |url-status=live }}</ref>

Philadelphia's [[Asian Americans|Asian American]] population includes those of Chinese, Indians, Vietnamese, South Koreans, Filipinos, Cambodians, and Indonesians. Over 35,000 Chinese Americans lived in the city in 2015,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_SPT/B01003/0500000US42101/popgroup~016 |title=2011–2015 American Community Survey Selected Population Tables – Chinese alone, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=June 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200214004430/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_SPT/B01003/0500000US42101/popgroup~016 |archive-date=February 14, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref> including a [[Fuzhounese Americans|Fuzhounese]] population. Center City hosts a [[Chinatown, Philadelphia|Chinatown]] that is served by [[Chinatown bus lines]] with service to/from [[Chinatown, Manhattan]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/nyregion/philadelphia-new-york-migration-immigrants.html |title=Leaving New York to Find the American Dream in Philadelphia |author=Matt Katz |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 20, 2018 |access-date=April 17, 2019 |archive-date=April 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418054111/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/nyregion/philadelphia-new-york-migration-immigrants.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Indians in the Philadelphia metropolitan area|Indians]] make up the second-largest Asian group in the city of Philadelphia,<ref name=LargeIndianPopulationPhiladelphia>{{cite web |title=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (City) |url=https://statisticalatlas.com/place/Pennsylvania/Philadelphia/Ancestry |website=Statistical Atlas |access-date=December 15, 2024 |archive-date=December 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241215083215/https://statisticalatlas.com/place/Pennsylvania/Philadelphia/Ancestry |url-status=live }}</ref> while making up the largest foreign-born population in the [[Delaware Valley]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Singer |first1=Audrey |last2=Vitiello |first2=Domenic |last3=Katz |first3=Michael |last4=Park |first4=David |title=Recent Immigration to Philadelphia: Regional Change in a Re-Emerging Gateway |url=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1113_immigration_singer.pdf |website=Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings |publisher=Brookings Institution |access-date=December 15, 2024 |archive-date=December 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241215083215/https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1113_immigration_singer.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> A Korean community initially settled in the North Philadelphia neighborhood of [[Olney, Philadelphia|Olney]]; however, the primary [[Koreatown, Philadelphia|Koreatown]] has subsequently shifted further north, straddling the city's border with adjacent [[Cheltenham, Pennsylvania|Cheltenham]] in [[Montgomery County, Pennsylvania|Montgomery County]] and [[Cherry Hill, New Jersey|Cherry Hill]] in [[South Jersey]]. South Philadelphia is home to [[Vietnamese-American]]s in [[Little Saigon, Philadelphia|Little Saigon]] and [[Cambodian-Americans]] in [[Little Cambodia#Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Cambodia Town]], as well as [[Thai-American]], [[Indonesian-American]], and Chinese-American communities.

Philadelphia's [[Gay village]] near [[Washington Square (Philadelphia)|Washington Square]] is home to a concentration of gay and lesbian-friendly businesses, restaurants, and bars.<ref>{{cite web |title=Exploring Gay Philadelphia |url=http://www.visitphilly.com/itineraries/philadelphia/exploring-gay-philadelphia/ |publisher=Visit Philadelphia |access-date=July 23, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724030414/http://www.visitphilly.com/itineraries/philadelphia/exploring-gay-philadelphia/ |archive-date=July 24, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Guide to Philadelphia's Gayborhood |url=http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/guide/guide-to-philadelphias-gayborhood/ |publisher=CBS Local Media |date=June 5, 2013 |access-date=July 23, 2015 |archive-date=July 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723061349/http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/guide/guide-to-philadelphias-gayborhood/ |url-status=live }}</ref>