As according to the New York City Department of City Planning, there were a total of 8,804,190 residents. There were almost equivalent populations of 2,719,856 White residents at 30.9% and 2,490,350 Hispanic residents at 28.3%, meanwhile there were 1,776,891 Black residents at 20.2% and 1,373,502 Asian residents at 15.6%. There were even much smaller numbers of 143,632 other race residents at 1.6% and 299,959 Two or More races residents at 3.4%.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The White population declined mainly in Queens, The Bronx, and then Staten Island, though the White population increased marginally in Brooklyn and then Manhattan. The Black population experienced declines by Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, increasing marginally in the Bronx and Staten Island. The Hispanic population increased in the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, but experienced decline in Manhattan. The Asian population increased in all five boroughs.[7]
According to the 2019-20 demographic data from Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, there were 3,030,397 foreign born residents in the city. Each the foreign born White and Black populations made up 19% of the foreign born residents, Hispanics made up 31% of the foreign born residents, and the Asians made 28% of the foreign born residents. For a long time since the mid to late 20th century, the Hispanic residents made up the vast majority of the foreign born population in the city, but since the 2010s, the growing foreign born Asian residents have been catching up and now starting to challenge the Hispanic residents as the largest foreign born population.[8]
The New York City metropolitan area is home to the largest Dominican population in the United States, and as of 2023 Dominicans are the largest Latino Group in New York City, and the largest ethnic group in Manhattan.
New York City is also home to the largest
South Asian group, comprising 2.4% of the city's population, with Pakistanis at 0.4% and Bangladeshis at 0.8%, respectively.[16]
Germans were the largest immigrant group, followed by the Irish, Jews, and Italians.[25] In 1940, Whites represented 92% of the city's population at 6.6 million.[22][26]
Approximately 37% of the city's population is
Bangladeshi-born immigrant population has become one of the fastest growing in the city, counting over 74,000 by 2011.[30][31]
Bolivian) populations in the United States, and is also the most ethnically and linguistically diverse urban area in the world.[34] Over 100,000 Venezuelan asylum seekers have arrived in New York City since 2022.[35]
Flushing, Queens, are thriving as traditionally urban enclaves—while also expanding rapidly eastward into suburban Nassau County[38] on Long Island,[39] as the New York metropolitan region and New York State have become the top destinations for new Chinese immigrants, respectively, and large-scale Chinese immigration continues into New York City and surrounding areas,[40][41][42][43][44][45] with the largest metropolitan Chinese diaspora outside Asia,[30][46] including an estimated 812,410 individuals in 2015.[47] As of 2023, illegal Chinese immigration to New York City, especially to Queens and its Flushing Chinatown, has accelerated.[48]
In 2012, 6.3% of New York City was of
Pakistanis at 0.7% and 0.5%, respectively.[51] Queens is the preferred borough of settlement for Asian Indians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Malaysians,[52][40]
and other Southeast Asians.
New York City has the largest
European and non-Hispanic white population of any American city. At 2.7 million in 2012, New York's non-Hispanic White population is larger than the non-Hispanic White populations of Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston combined.[53] The non-Hispanic White population has begun to increase since 2010.[54][needs update
]
The
Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, also known as Little Russia or Little Odesa, is the largest center of the Russian- and Ukrainian-American communities.[57]
Many Romani people moved to New York City from other parts of the United States after relief programs were put into effect in the 1930s. Roma from Hungary went to New York after the revolution in 1956.[78]
Minority ancestries
Immigrant Africans, Caribbeans, and African Americans make up 25.1% of New York City's population. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 2,086,566 black people residing in New York City. Percentage wise, approximately two out of every five black residents of New York City resides in Brooklyn (primarily in the Central, Northern, and Eastern sections of the borough), one out of every five resides in Bronx (mainly in the borough's Northeastern, Southeastern and Southern sections) one out of every five resides in Queens (mainly in the borough's Southeastern area), with the remaining black residents residing in Manhattan (primarily in Harlem) and Staten Island (mainly the North Shore of the borough).
Mohawks indigenous to the New York city area and/or Upstate New York, and many Mohawks arrived in the 1930s to work in the skyscraper building construction industry.[79][unreliable source?] And a few Lenape Indians indigenous to the New York city area still remain in the city, migrated from other rural parts to Manhattan.[80]
Korean Americans residing in the city, representing 1.1% of the population. Other Asian American groups include those of Filipino (68,826, 0.8%), Japanese (26,096, 0.3%), and Vietnamese
(18,030, 0.2%) descent.
Pacific Islander Americans make up 0.1% of New York City's population. According to the survey, there were 4,941 Pacific Islander Americans residing in New York City. Of 4,941 Pacific Islander Americans, 1,992 were Native Hawaiian. Approximately 904 were of Samoan
descent, and 504 were of Guamanian descent. In addition, 1,541 were of other Pacific Islander ancestries.
Multiracial Americans make up 2.1% of New York City's population. According to the survey, there were 177,643 multiracial Americans residing in New York City. People of black and white ancestry numbered at 37,124, making up 0.4% of the population. People of white and Asian ancestry numbered at 22,242, making up 0.3% of the population. People of white/Native American ancestry (10,762) and black/Native American ancestry (10,221) each made up 0.1% of the city's population. The term "Multiracial American", however, can be very misleading. For example, many people of Latin American background may have various racial ancestries. Furthermore, there are many Americans who have multiple racial ancestries who are not aware of it. Therefore, the actual numbers are likely much higher.[citation needed
]
Cuban" (42,377 or 0.5%), and "Other Hispanic or Latino" (1,165,576 or 14.0%).[81] While most Hispanics in New York City do not select a race in addition to their ethnicity in the American Community Survey, among those foreign-born, 33% also self-identify as white, and 9% as black.[82]
According to the 2006-2007 Center for Latin American, Caribbean & Latino Studies:[83]
According to a 2001 study by Claritas, four of the city's five boroughs ranked among the nation's twenty most diverse counties.
New York Metropolitan Area, ranked 6th and 15th, respectively.[87]
The city has several demographically unique characteristics. Queens is the only large county in the United States where the median income among black households, about $52,000 a year, has surpassed that of whites.[88]
The New York City metropolitan area is home to the largest
African American community of any city in the country. New York City, with about 800,000 Puerto Rican residents, has the largest Puerto Rican population outside of Puerto Rico. Another historically significant ethnic group are Italians, who emigrated to the city in large numbers during the late 19th century. New York City is home to the largest Italian American population in the United States. The Irish and Germans
Historical Population of the present area of New York City and its boroughs * [95][96][97][98][99]
Year
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Queens
Bronx
Staten Is.'
Total
1698
4,937
2,017
n/a
n/a
727
7,681
1771
21,863
3,623
n/a
n/a
2,847
28,423
1790
33,131
4,549
6,159
1,781
3,827
49,447
1800
60,515
5,740
6,642
1,755
4,563
79,215
1810
96,373
8,303
7,444
2,267
5,347
119,734
1820
123,706
11,187
8,246
2,782
6,135
152,056
1830
202,589
20,535
9,049
3,023
7,082
242,278
1840
312,710
47,613
14,480
5,346
10,965
391,114
1850
515,547
138,882
18,593
8,032
15,061
696,115
1860
813,669
279,122
32,903
23,593
25,492
1,174,779
1870
942,292
419,921
45,468
37,393
33,029
1,478,103
1880
1,164,673
599,495
56,559
51,980
38,991
1,911,698
1890
1,441,216
838,547
87,050
88,908
51,693
2,507,414
†1900
1,850,093
1,166,582
152,999
200,507
67,021
3,437,202
1910
2,331,542
1,634,351
284,041
430,980
85,969
4,766,883
1920
2,284,103
2,018,356
469,042
732,016
116,531
5,620,048
1930
1,867,312
2,560,401
1,079,129
1,265,258
158,346
6,930,446
1940
1,889,924
2,698,285
1,297,634
1,394,711
174,441
7,454,995
1950
1,960,101
2,738,175
1,550,849
1,451,277
191,555
7,891,957
1960
1,698,281
2,627,319
1,809,578
1,424,815
221,991
7,781,984
1970
1,539,233
2,602,012
1,986,473
1,471,701
295,443
7,894,862
1980
1,428,285
2,230,936
1,891,325
1,168,972
352,121
7,071,639
1990
1,487,536
2,300,664
1,951,598
1,203,789
378,977
7,322,564
2000
1,537,195
2,465,326
2,229,379
1,332,650
443,728
8,008,278
2010
1,585,873
2,504,700
2,230,722
1,385,108
468,730
8,175,133
2020
1,694,251
2,736,074
2,405,464
1,472,654
495,747
8,804,190
Year
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Queens
Bronx
Staten Is.
Total
* All population figures are consistent with present-day boundaries. † First census after the consolidation of the
five boroughs
Click here [100] to view the density of New York City as an interactive map of the 1900 census, shortly after municipal consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898.
Languages
In 1940, a little over half of all White New Yorker's spoke English, with large percentages speaking Yiddish, Italian, and German.
Languages spoken in NYC among White population (1940)[101]
Since its founding in 1625 by Dutch traders as New Amsterdam, New York City has been a major destination for immigrants of many nationalities who have formed ethnic enclaves, neighborhoods dominated by one ethnicity.[103][104] Freed African American slaves also moved to New York City in the Great Migration and the later Second Great Migration and formed ethnic enclaves.[105] These neighborhoods are set apart from the main city by differences such as food, goods for sale, or even language. Ethnic enclaves provide inhabitants security in work and social opportunities,[103] but limit economic opportunities, do not encourage the development of English speaking, and keep immigrants in their own culture.[103]
As of 2019[update], there are 3.1 million immigrants in New York City. This accounts for 37% of the city population and 45% of its workforce.[106] Ethnic enclaves in New York include Caribbean, Asian, European, Latin American, Middle Eastern and Jewish groups, who immigrated from or whose ancestors immigrated from various countries. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York.[107][108][109]
^Kirk Semple (June 23, 2011). "Asian New Yorkers Seek Power to Match Numbers". The New York Times. Retrieved July 5, 2011. Asians, a group more commonly associated with the West Coast, are surging in New York, where they have long been eclipsed in the city's kaleidoscopic racial and ethnic mix. For the first time, according to census figures released in the spring, their numbers have topped one million — nearly 1 in 8 New Yorkers — which is more than the Asian population in the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles combined.
^The Newest New Yorkers: 2013, New York City Department of City Planning, December 2013. Retrieved February 9, 2017. "The immigrant share of the population has also doubled since 1965, to 37 percent. With foreign-born mothers accounting for 51 percent of all births, approximately 6-in-10 New Yorkers are either immigrants or the children of immigrants."
^Semple, Kirk (June 23, 2011). "Asian New Yorkers Seek Power to Match Numbers". The New York Times. Retrieved July 5, 2011. Asians, a group more commonly associated with the West Coast, are surging in New York, where they have long been eclipsed in the city's kaleidoscopic racial and ethnic mix. For the first time, according to census figures released in the spring, their numbers have topped one million—nearly one in eight New Yorkers—which is more than the Asian population in the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles combined.
^Vivian Yee (February 22, 2015). "Indictment of New York Officer Divides Chinese-Americans". The New York Times. Retrieved November 17, 2023. Now they are reaching out to the Chinese-language press, contacting lawyers to advise Officer Liang and planning a protest march in New York, a city with the largest Chinese population outside of Asia.
Waxman, Sarah. "The History of New York's Chinatown". Mediabridge Infosystems, Inc. Retrieved August 28, 2022. Manhattan's Chinatown, the largest Chinatown in the United States and the site of the largest concentration of Chinese in the Western Hemisphere, is located on the Lower East Side.
^Eileen Sullivan (November 24, 2023). "Growing Numbers of Chinese Migrants Are Crossing the Southern Border". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2023. Most who have come to the United States in the past year were middle-class adults who have headed to New York after being released from custody. New York has been a prime destination for migrants from other nations as well, particularly Venezuelans, who rely on the city's resources, including its shelters. But few of the Chinese migrants are staying in the shelters. Instead, they are going where Chinese citizens have gone for generations: Flushing, Queens. Or to some, the Chinese Manhattan..."New York is a self-sufficient Chinese immigrants community," said the Rev. Mike Chan, the executive director of the Chinese Christian Herald Crusade, a faith-based group in the neighborhood.
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