Kesher Talk

Jewish population increases in the U.S.: Yes, I will have to look into this one soon. I tackled the Muslims in America numbers first because the numbers seemed so out of whack, and shortly I will turn to other religious affiliations. According to the American Jewish Committee's American Jewish Yearbook, the nation's Jewish population reached 6,136,000 as of 2000, an increase of 75,000 over 1999. The annual obtains population estimates from local Jewish groups. Surveying longer trends, the book said that in 1900, 52% of the 1.1 million U.S. Jews lived in the New York City area, but only 32% of today's total live there. The annual said that since 1995, Las Vegas has seen the largest Jewish increase among U.S. cities, up 35% to 75,000, followed by Seattle, up 27% to 37,200. The biggest drop, a loss of 10,000, occurred in the Miami area.

I wonder if they differentiate between snowbirds and permanent residents down there?

posted by Howard @ 12/18/2001 01:11:17 PM