Identity & heritage community ranking

Top French (except Basque) communities in U.S. city markets.

Explore where this community is largest and where it represents the greatest share of the local city market. The default ranking lens is 2024 ACS ancestry response (B04006_040E).

Identity discovery only — never a score. Census ancestry, ethnicity, origin, race, and birthplace measures can overlap. V3.4.3 keeps those lenses separate and never adds them together. Identity context never changes the Follow Your Heart Index or any component score.

Top 10 by population

Largest communities

Estimated population under the governed default identity lens.

Rank	City and state	Community population	City-market population
#1	New York, New York	69,619	8,468,353
#2	Los Angeles, California	42,206	3,848,831
#3	Houston, Texas	39,511	3,320,004
#4	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	27,254	382,872
#5	Lafayette, Louisiana	26,737	158,114
#6	Chicago, Illinois	26,003	2,694,535
#7	Austin, Texas	25,847	1,121,713
#8	San Diego, California	24,733	1,411,139
#9	San Antonio, Texas	24,586	1,847,231
#10	Phoenix, Arizona	21,272	1,500,198

Top 10 by representation

Highest community share

Share of the full city-market population under the same governed lens.

Rank	City and state	Community share	City-market population
#1	Houma, Louisiana	19.85%	86,141
#2	Thibodaux, Louisiana	18.65%	50,095
#3	Lafayette, Louisiana	16.91%	158,114
#4	Mandeville, Louisiana	16.03%	50,537
#5	New Iberia, Louisiana	15.64%	57,161
#6	Covington, Louisiana	15.00%	64,351
#7	Metairie, Louisiana	14.05%	137,978
#8	Chicopee, Massachusetts	12.01%	55,295
#9	Marrero, Louisiana	11.64%	55,693
#10	Slidell, Louisiana	11.30%	95,511

Governed identity lenses

One community can have more than one Census lens.

Ancestry: 2024 ACS ancestry response (B04006_040E) — default ranking lens

The default lens controls this page's rankings. Secondary lenses remain preserved in the publication contract and are not combined with the default measure.

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