Hmong follow earlier immigrants to the suburbs

These immigrants grew up in the city and are now moving out to the suburbs as they are financially able to do that. - - Donna Poisl

by: MARY JANE SMETANKA , Star Tribune

Like immigrant populations before them in Minnesota, the Hmong who first arrived as refugees 35 years ago are filling up the suburbs in significant numbers.

U.S. census data for 2010 released Thursday show the rapidly evolving Hmong community grew by 52 percent in the last decade. Even more striking, almost 44 percent of the 63,619 Hmong in Minnesota lived outside Minneapolis and St. Paul. In 2000, only 19 percent lived outside the urban core.
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