Culture & People

This creative city has more public art and murals compared to any other US city due to a program created to beautify the city. Philadelphia is truly a melting pot of cultures and races- having the second largest Irish, Italian and Jamaican-American populations within the US. According to the 2000 census, 1.5 million people live inside the city limits with another 3.6 million living in the greater metro area. The population is 42.5% white, 42.6% African-American, 4.5% Asian, 8.5% Hispanic and about 1.8% other races. The city covers 135 square miles.