A statistical portrait of Boston's Haitian-born population, issued by the city as part of a series on its immigrant communities. It dates the community's origins to Haitians fleeing the Duvalier regime from the late 1950s, and locates present-day settlement in Mattapan, Roxbury, Dorchester and Hyde Park, with movement outward to the South Shore and to Lawrence, Lowell and Worcester.

Census figures give roughly 18,900 Haitian-born residents in the city, the largest single immigrant group at a tenth of the foreign-born total. The profile covers age, marriage, naturalisation, schooling, occupation, labour-force participation and self-employment, measuring Haitians throughout against all foreign-born and all native-born residents.

Two results stand out. Attainment at the high-school level matches or exceeds both comparison groups while degree-holding lags far behind them. And a fifth of Haitian workers hold health-care support jobs, most of them registered nurses, four times the share among other immigrants and ten times that of the native-born.