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Ethnic origins in New York City. Multigenerational African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-Latinos and African Immigrants 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.
The Jewish population in New York City exploded from 80,000 Jews in 1880 to 1.5 million in 1920, as Jews from Eastern Europe fled pogroms and discrimination. [97] The Jewish population peaked at 2.2 million in 1940. A large portion of the population suburbanized after World War II, [91] as a part of the larger trend of White flight.
A large percentage of the immigrants that came to New York City after 1965 were from non-European countries. [5] Large numbers of Irish people arrived in New York City during the Great Famine in the 1840s, while Germans, Italians, Jews, and other European ethnic groups arrived in NYC mostly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [5]
New York City grew by a healthy 7%, or about 630,000 people, defying predictions about lackluster growth in the five boroughs. 2020 Census shows NYC’s diverse population grew to unexpected 8.8M ...
As of the 2020 census, the population density of New York County was 74,870.7 inhabitants per square mile (28,907.7/km 2), the highest population density of any county in the United States. [5] In 1910, at the height of European immigration to New York, Manhattan's population density reached a peak of 101,548 people per square mile (39,208 ...
The demographics of Queens, the second-most populous borough in New York City, are highly diverse.No racial or ethnic group holds a majority in the borough. Coterminous with Queens County since 1899, the borough of Queens is the second-largest in population (behind Brooklyn), with approximately 2.3 million residents in 2013, approximately 48% of them foreign-born; [1] Queens County is also the ...
New York City was founded in 1625, by Dutch traders as New Amsterdam. [2] The settlement was a slow growing village, but was diverse.However, the Netherlands never had a large emigrant population, and the colony attracted few Dutch and more people from different ethnic groups. [3]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, They were almost two-and-a-half million Hispanics (2,490,350) living in New York City in 2020. [1] [2] Latino immigrants are concentrated in Queens and the Bronx. Dominicans are the largest foreign Latino born group in New York City, followed by Mexicans. [3]