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In 1970, the Census Bureau reported Miami's population as 45.3% Hispanic, 32.9% non-Hispanic whiteWhite, and 22.7% blackBlack.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Florida – Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Cities and Other Places: Earliest Census to 1990 |url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812191959/http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |archive-date=August 12, 2012 |access-date=April 21, 2012 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref> Miami's explosive population growth has been driven by internal migration from other parts of the country, up until the 1960s. From 1970 to 2000, population growth in the city was stagnant, as [[Nonnon-Hispanic White]] Miamians left and significant immigration from Latin America, particularly [[Cuba]], made up the balance.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Booth |first=William |date=November 11, 1998 |title=A White Migration North From Miami |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt1109.htm |access-date=August 3, 2021 |series=The Myth of the Melting Pot |archive-date=February 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204224702/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt1109.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Miami Herald |url=https://account.miamiherald.com/paywall/registration?resume=118269088 |website=account.miamiherald.com |access-date=August 8, 2020 |archive-date=February 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204015414/https://account.miamiherald.com/paywall/registration?resume=118269088 |url-status=live }}</ref> The city's Hispanic majority solidified itself in this period of time, and in 1985, the city elected its first Cuban-born mayor, [[Xavier Suarez]].

The Nonnon-Hispanic Black population of the city of Miami peaked in 1990 at almost 90,000 (making up nearly a quarter of the population of the city). Since then, though, the city's Nonnon-Hispanic Black population has experienced a precipitous and steady decline. At the time of the most recent census in 2020, it was found to be 52,447, only 11.7% of the population. Reasons for this include high costs in areas such as [[Liberty City, Miami|Liberty City]] and [[Little Haiti]], compounded with [[gentrification]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dieujuste |first1=Kevin |title=Little Haiti and Liberty City residents raise concerns about gentrification |url=https://sfmn.fiu.edu/little-haiti-and-liberty-city-residents-raise-concerns-about-gentrification/ |website=Caplin News |publisher=FIU |access-date=March 22, 2023 |date=June 30, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322191019/https://sfmn.fiu.edu/little-haiti-and-liberty-city-residents-raise-concerns-about-gentrification/ |archive-date= March 22, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=What's really driving 'climate gentrification' in Miami? It isn't fear of sea-level rise |url=https://theconversation.com/whats-really-driving-climate-gentrification-in-miami-it-isnt-fear-of-sea-level-rise-191737 |first1=Richard |last1=Grant |first2=Han |last2=Li |publisher=The Conversation |access-date=March 22, 2023 |date=December 6, 2022 |archive-date=March 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322191015/https://theconversation.com/whats-really-driving-climate-gentrification-in-miami-it-isnt-fear-of-sea-level-rise-191737 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Nonnon-Hispanic White population began to rebound in the twenty-first century, as the monolithically Hispanic areas in the Western and Central parts of Miami experienced population stagnation. This caused them to begin to be outweighed by migration into the Downtown region (not only from Latin America, but also from the rest of the United States). This caused the Nonnon-Hispanic White population to rise from a nadir of 11.8% at the time of the [[2000 United States census|2000 census]] to 11.9% at the time of the [[2010 United States census|2010 census]]. After this, the Nonnon-Hispanic White population grew significantly faster than the city as a whole did during the 2010s, and by the time of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]], Nonnon-Hispanic Whites made up 14.0% of the population of the city and numbered 61,829, the highest number since the 1980s. The Nonnon-Hispanic White population of Miami also surpassed the Nonnon-Hispanic Black population of the city during the 2010s.