History of Africans in Baltimore

Demographics

In 2009, more than one out of every ten immigrants in the Baltimore-Towson, MD metro area (14.5 percent) were immigrants from Africa.

As of 2010, there were 28,834 immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in Baltimore.

In February 2011, the Sudanese community of Baltimore numbered only 185 people. Due to South Sudan's independence from Sudan, many South Sudanese have returned to their homeland. Prior to independence, Baltimore's Sudanese community numbered 300 people.

In September 2014, speakers of various languages of Africa were the third largest non-Anglophone group of language speakers in Baltimore, after Hispanophones and Francophones. Additionally, 6,862 African immigrants lived in Baltimore, making Africa the third largest region of origin for immigrants after Latin America and Asia. Nigerians were the sixth largest foreign-born population in Baltimore, Ghanaians were twenty-second, Ethiopians were twenty-third, Sudanese were twenty-ninth, Liberians were thirty-second, Kenyans were thirty-third, Cameroonians were forty-fourth, Sierra Leoneans were forty-sixth, Eritreans were fiftieth, and Cape Verdeans were one-hundredth.

As of 2014, there were over 2,500 Liberian Americans living in Baltimore.

According to the Migration Policy Institute, there were 12,000 Nigerians living in the Baltimore metropolitan area as of 2019.