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Today, the state of New York has the largest population of Italian-Americans, while Rhode Island and Connecticut have the highest overall percentages in relation to their respective populations. In contrast, most of the rest of the country (exceptions being South Florida and New Orleans) have fewer Italian-American concentrations.
New York is home to the third largest Italian population outside of Italy, behind Buenos Aires, Argentina (first) and São Paulo, Brazil (second). Over 2.6 million [1] Italians and Italian-Americans live in the greater New York metro area, with about 800,000 living within one of the five New York City boroughs. This makes Italian Americans the ...
At 8.3% of the population, Italian Americans compose the largest European American ethnic group in New York City, and are the largest ethnic group in Staten Island (Richmond County), making it the most Italian county in the United States, with 37.7% of the population reporting Italian American ancestry. [121] [130]
There are 2,918,976 non-Hispanic whites residing in the city. Much of New York City's European American population consists of individuals of Italian, Irish, German, Russian, Polish, English, and Greek ancestry. [84] There is a considerable Bulgarian population in New York. Bulgarians migrated in New York in the 1900s. [85]
The metropolitan area is home to 20% of the nation's Indian Americans and at least 20 Little India enclaves, and 15% of all Korean Americans and four Koreatowns; [62] the largest Asian Indian population in the Western Hemisphere; the largest Russian American, [63] Italian American, and African American populations; the largest Dominican ...
Out of all of the boroughs of New York City, Staten Island has the lowest population concentration, and as of the 2020 census data from the New York City Department of City Planning, there were a total population of 495,747 residents with 277,981 White residents making up 56.1%, 96,960 Hispanic residents making up 19.6%, 58,753 Asian residents ...
Corona has a multicultural population with a Latino majority, and is the site of historic African-American and Italian-American communities. After World War II, the majority of the neighborhood's residents were mostly Italian, German, Irish and of other European ancestries. Corona also has a significant Chinese population. [5]
About 7.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.9% of those under age 18 and 4.1% of those age 65 or over. Frankfort has a large Italian American population. [11] Many Italian American families in the town and village are descendants of immigrants from Oriolo, Cosenza, or Calabria, Italy and from San Giuseppe Iato, Sicily.