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According to the 2010 Census, Puerto Ricans represented 8.9% of the population of New York City (32% of the city's Hispanic community) and 5.5% of that of New York State. [5] The Puerto Rican share of New York City decreased to 6.7% by 2020 as Puerto Ricans left the city and new arrivals from the island increasingly went to other destinations.
New York City has the largest population of Puerto Ricans in the country outside Puerto Rico itself. Large numbers of Puerto Ricans live in all five boroughs and the borough of the Bronx has the largest number of Puerto Ricans of any U.S. county. Historically, New York City was the center of the Stateside Puerto Rican community.
Consequently, the New York City metropolitan area has witnessed a significant increase in its Nuyorican population, individuals in the region of Puerto Rican descent, increasing from 1,177,430 in 2010 to a Census-estimated 1,494,670 in 2016, [8] maintaining New York's status by a significant margin as the most important cultural and demographic ...
But the population of Puerto Rico continued to fall, albeit at a slower rate than in recent years, falling by just 0.2 percent to 3,203,295, compared with drops of 1.3 percent and 0.5 percent in ...
However, in more recent years, there has been a significant resurgence in migration from Puerto Rico to New York and New Jersey, with an apparently multifactorial allure to Puerto Ricans, primarily for economic and cultural considerations; [39] [40] with the Puerto Rican population of the New York City Metropolitan Area increasing from ...
(The Center Square) — New York's population could decline by more than 2 million people over the next 25 years as fewer people are born in the state and more people move out, according to a new ...
It has one of the highest concentrations of Puerto Ricans in all of New York City. [1] As of 2010, the Puerto Rican population was 27.7% in zip code 10029, [45] and 23.4% in 10035. 10035 also has a large Mexican population, at 10.7%. [46]
Data released Thursday shows the U.S. territory's population dropped by 129,848 people between July 2017 and July 2018. The hurricane struck two months into that period, in September 2017.