Haitians in the U.S.

The American Community Survey (ACS) provides up-to-date profiles of America's communities every year, including demographic, housing, social, and economic characteristics for numerous geographies. The most detailed race and ethnic data are available through the Selected Population Profiles.

Selected population profile of PEOPLE OF HAITIAN ANCESTRY living in the United States: 2006-2008 3-year estimates

LOCAL ESTIMATES OF POPULATION FOR HAITIANS living in the United States: 2006-2008 3-year estimates

Instructions: Using the hot link immediately above, you will arrive on the American Community Survey home page for the “2006-2008 American Community Survey 3-year estimates.” Within the gray box, click on the link labeled “enter a table number.” Enter either of the following table numbers and click “go” — B04003 (for the number of people of Haitian ancestry) or B05006 (for the number of people born in Haiti). You can then use the drop down menu to select the geography (state, county, etc.) you are looking for. Once you have highlighted your geography, click “add” and then click “show result.”

The ACS 3-year estimates are typically preferable to the ACS 1-year estimates for estimates based on small populations. An estimate of a characteristic can have an acceptably small standard error when it applies to the full population of a published geography. However, the estimate of that characteristic may have an unacceptably large standard error when it applies to a subset of the population of the same geography. For more guidance, please visit the following link http://www.census.gov/acs/www/UseData/mye/myechoosing.html.

Update: January 22, 2010

The Emergency Preparedness page has been updated with a link to an interactive map showing the geographic distribution of the population of Haiti, based on publicly available information and providing population and housing data for areas chosen by the user: <https:www.geoint-online.net/community/haitiearthquake/default.aspx>. (If you click on this link and experience difficulty connecting with the map site, please try copying the URL and pasting it into your browser address bar.)

When accessing the map on this site, click on the following link to zoom in on areas of interest and to draw a polygon around them: “Click to explore demographic data.” When you have drawn a polygon to display an area, its estimated population and area will appear.

Click on “Show 2003 census data,” and then click on one of the blue areas that appear to view the geographic, population and housing data for the sections completely or partially contained within the polygon. To download the data set used to provide underlying information on this site, click on the link: “Click to download population estimates and administrative boundaries.”