<P> "White flight" from Newark to the suburbs, which started in the 1940s accelerated in the 1960s . The 1967 riots resulted in a significant population loss of the city's middle class, many of them Jewish, which continued from the 1970s through to the 1990s . The city lost about 130,000 residents between 1960 and 1990 . </P> <P> From the 1950s to 1967, white population shrank from 363,000 to 158,000, its black population grew from 70,000 to 220,000 . The percentage of Non-Hispanic whites declined from 82.8% in 1950 to 11.6% by 2010 . The percentage of Latinos in Newark grew between 1980 and 2010, from 18.6% to 33.8% while that of Blacks decreased from 58.2% to 52.4% . </P> <P> Poverty remains a consistent problem in Newark, despite its revitalization in recent years . As of 2010, roughly one - third of the city's population was impoverished . </P> <P> In advance of the 2000 United States Census, city officials made a push to get residents to respond and participate in the enumeration, citing calculations by city officials that as many as 30,000 people were not reflected in estimates from the Census Bureau, which resulted in the loss of government aid and political representation . It is believed that heavily immigrant areas of Newark were significantly undercounted in the 2010 Census, especially in the East Ward . Many households refused to participate in the census, with immigrants often reluctant to submit census forms because they believed that the information could be used to justify their deportation . </P>

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