About
About Settle In America
Settle In America maps where specific immigrant communities actually live in American cities. Not “Indian community in Houston”—Telugu community in Houston. Igbo community in Atlanta. Cantonese community in New York. The specific neighborhoods, the temples, the grocery stores, the community organizations.
Every guide is built from Census data, verified against community sources, and written for someone who is about to move.
Why This Exists
When someone moves from Hyderabad to America, they don’t just need “an Indian community.” They need Telugu people. A Telugu temple. A grocery store that stocks the right brands of pickles and spice mixes. A neighborhood where their kids will have classmates who speak the same language at home.
That information exists—scattered across Reddit threads, Facebook groups, and word-of-mouth from cousins who moved five years ago. But nobody had put it together in one place, organized by the actual community someone belongs to.
Generic city guides treat “Indian” as one group. It isn’t. A Tamil family and a Punjabi family have different languages, different foods, different religious institutions, different neighborhoods they gravitate toward. The same is true for Nigerian communities—Igbo, Yoruba, and Edo families settle in different parts of the same city. For Chinese communities—Cantonese, Fujianese, and Mandarin-speaking immigrants build infrastructure in different neighborhoods.
This site exists because the question “Where should I live in Houston?” has a completely different answer depending on whether you’re Telugu or Gujarati, Igbo or Yoruba.
What Makes This Different
Sub-Community Specificity
We don’t write about “the Indian community.” We write about 15 distinct Indian language and cultural groups—Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindi-speaking, Punjabi, Malayali, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Sindhi, and more. We cover Nigerian communities by ethnic group—Igbo, Yoruba, Edo, Urhobo, Hausa-Fulani, Efik-Ibibio, Ijaw. Chinese communities by language—Cantonese, Fujianese, Mandarin, Taiwanese. Each group gets its own guide because each group has its own geography in every city.
Census-Level Neighborhood Mapping
We use U.S. Census PUMA-level language data to show where communities actually cluster. Not vague gestures toward “the suburbs.” Specific neighborhoods, specific zip codes, specific school districts—backed by data on how many speakers of a given language live in each area.
Verified Community Infrastructure
Every temple, gurdwara, mosque, church, cultural organization, grocery store, and restaurant in our guides has been checked against its own sources—its website, its social media, its public records. We don’t scrape directories and dump the results. If we can’t verify that a place is currently operating, it doesn’t go in the guide.
Honest Gaps
If a community doesn’t have a dedicated temple in a city, we say so. If there are no restaurants serving a specific regional cuisine, we say that too. A guide that pads empty sections with near-misses (“well, there’s a pan-Asian restaurant that serves a few dishes”) is misleading. The absence of something is useful information when you’re deciding where to move.
What This Is Not
Not an immigration law resource. We do not cover visas, green cards, work permits, or USCIS processes. None of our content is legal advice. If you need immigration legal help, consult an immigration attorney.
Not a government site. Settle In America is an independent publication. We use government data (primarily U.S. Census Bureau), but we are not affiliated with any government agency.
Not sponsored by any community organization. No temple, cultural association, or business pays to be included in our guides. Listings are based on editorial research. This keeps our guides honest—we include what serves the reader, not what serves an advertiser.
Not a real estate service. We describe where communities cluster and what housing costs look like in those neighborhoods. We don’t sell properties, refer agents, or earn commissions.
The Numbers
The site covers Indian communities (Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindi-speaking, Punjabi, Malayali, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Sindhi, and more across 10 cities), Nigerian communities (Igbo, Yoruba, Edo, Urhobo, Hausa-Fulani, Efik-Ibibio, Ijaw across multiple cities), Chinese communities (Cantonese, Fujianese, Mandarin, Taiwanese), Filipino city guides, and Mexican city guides.
Every guide is sourced from Census ACS data and cross-referenced against community organization websites, local reporting, and public records. Full methodology: How We Research Our Guides.
Get Involved
These guides get better when the communities they cover contribute corrections and updates.
- Found an error? Wrong address, outdated phone number, closed business—let us know and we’ll fix it.
- Know a missing organization? If your community has a temple, cultural center, grocery store, or resource that should be in our guides, reach out. We’ll verify it and add it.
- Represent a community organization? If you want to verify or update how your organization is listed, we welcome that. You know your story better than we do.
- Want to see a community covered? We’re expanding. If your community isn’t on the site yet, tell us where to look.
For details on our research process, data sources, and editorial standards, see How We Research Our Guides.