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[[Image:New York City Dist Growth Per Capita 1900 to 2000.png|300px|thumb|right|Population growth (blue) and population loss (red) from 1990 to 2000. (Click on image to see full key and data.)]]
{{Further|Demographics of New York (state)}}
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{{Infobox place demographics
|place=[[New York City]]
|image=New York city population pyramid in 2021.svg
|image_size=350
|caption=Population pyramid of New York City in 2021
|size_of_population=8,260,000 (2023 est.)
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[[New York City]] is a large and [[Multiculturalism|ethnically diverse]] [[metropolis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/geographyAndEnvironment/research/london/pdf/theimpactofrecentimmigrationonthelondoneconomy.pdf|title=The Impact of Recent Immigration on the London Economy|author1=Ian Gordon |author2=Tony Travers |author3=Christine Whitehead |author4=London School of Economics |author5=Political Science |publisher=The City of London Corporation|date=July 2007|access-date=September 8, 2013}}</ref> It is the largest city in the [[United States]] with a long history of international [[immigration]]. The New York region continues to be by far the leading metropolitan gateway for legal immigrants admitted into the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dhs.gov/yearbook-immigration-statistics-2012-legal-permanent-residents|title=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2012 Supplemental Table 2|publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security|access-date=April 2, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dhs.gov/files/statistics/publications/LPR11.shtm|title=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2011 Supplemental Table 2|publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security|access-date=April 2, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dhs.gov/files/statistics/publications/LPR10.shtm|title=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2010 Supplemental Table 2|publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security|access-date=April 2, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dhs.gov/files/statistics/publications/LPR09.shtm|title=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2009 Supplemental Table 2|publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security|access-date=April 2, 2013}}</ref> The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the [[Northeast megalopolis]] and the [[New York metropolitan area]], the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. by both population and [[urban area]]. With over 20.1 million people in its [[metropolitan statistical area]] and 23.5 million in its [[combined statistical area]] as of 2020, New York City is one of the world's most populous [[Megacity|megacities]].<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.statsamerica.org/radius/big.aspx |title=Big Radius Tool: StatsAmerica |publisher = Indiana Business Research Center |access-date=October 30, 2022}}</ref>

The city and its metropolitan area are the premier gateway for legal [[immigration to the United States]]. New York City enforces a [[right to housing|right-to-shelter]] law guaranteeing shelter to anyone who needs shelter, regardless of their immigration status;<ref name=NYCRightToShelter>{{cite web|url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2023/08/could-new-york-citys-right-shelter-apply-statewide/389450/|title=Could New York City's right to shelter apply statewide?|author=Annie McDonough|publisher=City & State New York|date=August 15, 2023|access-date=September 9, 2023}}</ref> and the city is home to more than 3.2 million residents born outside the U.S., the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world as of 2016.<ref name="NYCHighestForeignBorn">{{cite news |date = December 19, 2013 |title = More Foreign-Born Immigrants Live in NYC Than There Are People in Chicago |work=[[HuffPost]] |url = https://huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/19/new-york-city-immigrants_n_4475197.html |access-date=April 16, 2017}}</ref>

Throughout its history, New York City has been a major point of entry for [[immigrants]]; the term "[[melting pot]]" was coined to describe densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the [[Lower East Side]]. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York,<ref name="QueensMostLinguisticallyDiverse">{{Cite web |first = Gus |last = Lubin |date=February 15, 2017 |title = Queens has more languages than anywhere in the world—here's where they're found |url = https://www.businessinsider.com/queens-languages-map-2017-2 |access-date = December 29, 2019 |work=[[Business Insider]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://elalliance.org/|title=Endangered Language Alliance|year=2012|access-date=September 7, 2013}}</ref><ref name=800source2>{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/node/21528592|title=Linguistics- Say what?|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=September 10, 2011|access-date=October 24, 2013}}</ref><ref name=800source3>{{cite news|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-yorkers-self-assured-and-opinionated-defend-their-values/ar-BBog5Ms?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp|title=New Yorkers, Self-Assured and Opinionated, Defend Their Values|author=N. R. Kleinfield|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 15, 2016|access-date=January 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118134043/http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-yorkers-self-assured-and-opinionated-defend-their-values/ar-BBog5Ms?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp|archive-date=January 18, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.<ref name=800source2/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://popanth.com/article/the-worlds-most-linguistically-diverse-location-new-york-city|title=The World's Most Linguistically Diverse Location? New York City|author=Mark Turin|website=PopAnth.com|date=August 9, 2013|access-date=May 2, 2015|archive-date=June 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622110103/https://popanth.com/article/the-worlds-most-linguistically-diverse-location-new-york-city|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>
{{Cite news
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/nyregion/29lost.html
|title=Listening to (and Saving) the World's Languages
|access-date=December 1, 2012
|work=The New York Times
|first=Sam|last=Roberts
|date=April 28, 2010}}
</ref> English remains the most widely spoken language, although there are areas in the outer boroughs in which up to 25% of people speak English as an alternate language, and/or have limited or no English language fluency. English is least spoken in neighborhoods such as [[Flushing, Queens|Flushing]], [[Sunset Park, Brooklyn|Sunset Park]], and [[Corona, Queens|Corona]].


New York's two key demographic features are its density and diversity. The city has an extremely high [[population density]] of 26,403 people per square mile (10,194/km<sup>2</sup>), about 10,000 more people per square mile than the next densest large American city, [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]].<ref>For cities with more than 200,000 residents.{{cite web|title=G.I.S. Lounge U.S. Population Density, 2000 Census |url=http://gislounge.com/features/aa041101c.shtml |publisher=GiS Lounge |access-date=January 29, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210010305/http://gislounge.com/features/aa041101c.shtml |archive-date=February 10, 2007 |df=mdy }}</ref> Manhattan's population density is 66,940 people per square mile (25,846/km<sup>2</sup>).<ref name="census2000"/> The city has a long tradition of attracting international immigration and Americans seeking careers in certain sectors. As of 2006, New York City has ranked number one for seven consecutive years as the city most U.S. residents would most like to live in or near.<ref>{{cite news|title=California and New York City Most Popular Places People would choose to Live|author=Harris Interactive|date=September 11, 2005|url=http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=697|access-date=March 2, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928004644/http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=697|archive-date=September 28, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The '''demographics of [[New York City]]''' depict a uniquely large and [[Multiculturalism|ethnically diverse]] [[metropolis]], the largest city in the [[United States]], with a population defined by a long history of international [[immigration]]. New York City is home to more than 8 million people, accounting for about 40% of the population of [[New York State]] and a similar percentage of the [[New York metropolitan area]], home to about 20 million. Over the last decade the city has been growing faster than the region. Demographers estimate New York's population will reach 9.1 million by 2030.


==Demographic profile==
Throughout its history New York City has been a major point of entry for [[immigrants]]; the term "[[melting pot]]" was first coined to describe densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the [[Lower East Side]]. In 2005, nearly 170 languages were spoken in the city and 36% of its population was foreign born.<ref name="languages in NYC">{{cite news|author=New York State Office of the State Comptroller|title=Queens: Economic Development and the State of the Borough Economy|date=06-2006|url=http://www.osc.state.ny.us/osdc/rpt3-2007queens.pdf|accessdate=2007-03-21|format=PDF}}</ref><ref name="NYC immigration">{{cite news|title=The Newest New Yorkers: 2000|author=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|year=2005|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/nny_briefing_booklet.pdf|accessdate=2007-03-27|format=PDF}}</ref>
{{See also|Demographic history of New York City}}
[[File:New York City Dist Growth Per Capita 1990 to 2000.png|upright=1.4|thumb|right|Population growth (blue) and population loss (red) from 1990 to 2000. (Click on image to see full key and data.)]]


==Current demographics==
{{Historical populations|type=USA
{{Historical populations|type=USA
| 1698|4937
| 1712|5840
| 1723|7248
| 1737|10664
| 1746|11717
| 1756|13046
| 1771|21863
| 1790|33131
| 1790|33131
| 1800|60515
| 1800|60515
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| 1830|202589
| 1830|202589
| 1840|312710
| 1840|312710
| 1850|696490
| 1850|515547
| 1860|813669
| 1860|813669
| 1870|942292
| 1870|942292
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| 1990|7322564
| 1990|7322564
| 2000|8008288
| 2000|8008288
| 2007|8274527
| 2010|8175133
| 2020|8804190
|footnote=Beginning 1900, figures are for consolidated city of five boroughs. Source:<ref>[http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/1790-2000_nyc_total_foreign_birth.pdf NYC Department of City Planning: NYC Total and Foreign-born Population 1790 - 2000<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
| 2023 est.|8260000
|footnote=1880 & 1890 figures include part of the Bronx. Beginning with 1900, figures are for consolidated city of five boroughs. For the same area before 1900, see [[#Historical population data]], below. '''Sources:''' 1698–1771,<ref>{{cite book|last=Greene and Harrington|title=American Population Before the Federal Census of 1790|location=New York|year=1932}}, as cited in: {{cite book|last=Rosenwaike|first=Ira|title=Population History of New York City|publisher=[[Syracuse University Press]]|location=Syracuse, N.Y.|year=1972|isbn=0-8156-2155-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/populationhistor00irar/page/8 8]|url=https://archive.org/details/populationhistor00irar/page/8}}</ref> 1790–1990,<ref name="1790-1990">Gibson, Campbell.[https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0027/twps0027.html Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States:1790 to 1990], [[United States Census Bureau]], June 1998. Retrieved June 12, 2007.</ref> 2000 and 2010 Censuses,<ref name="2010 Census pop est">{{cite web|title=Table PL-P1 NYC: Total Population New York City and Boroughs, 2000 and 2010|url=http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p1_nyc.pdf|website=nyc.gov|access-date=16 May 2016}}</ref> 2020 Census,<ref name="2020Census">{{cite web |title=QuickFacts: New York city, New York|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewyork/POP010220|access-date=2021-08-17 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref> and 2023 estimate<ref name="2023 Estimates">{{cite news|title=New York City's Population Shrinks by 78,000, According to Census Data|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/nyregion/nyc-population-decline.html|access-date=2024-03-19|work=New York Times|date=March 14, 2024 |last1=Hu |first1=Winnie |last2=Chen |first2=Stefanos }}</ref>
}}
}}
New York City is the most populous city in the United States, with an estimated 8,804,190 people living in the city, according to the 2020 U.S. Census<ref name="2020Census"/> (up from 8,175,133 in 2010; 8.0 million in 2000; and 7.3 million in 1990).<ref name="2010 Census pop est"/> This amounts to about 44% of New York State's population and a similar percentage of the metropolitan regional population. New York's two key demographic features are its [[population density]] and [[cultural diversity]]. The city's population density of 29,091.3 people per square mile (11,232/km<sup>2</sup>), makes it the densest of any American municipality with a population above 100,000.<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-_lang=en&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_GCTPH1R_US13S&-format=US-13|US-13S&-CONTEXT=gct United States -- Places and (in selected states) County Subdivisions with 50,000 or More Population; and for Puerto Rico] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608133318/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-_lang=en&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_GCTPH1R_US13S&-format=US-13%7CUS-13S&-CONTEXT=gct |date=June 8, 2011 }}, [[United States Census Bureau]] [[United States Census, 2000]]. Accessed June 12, 2007.</ref> [[Manhattan]]'s population density is 74,781 people per square mile (28,872/km<sup>2</sup>), highest of any county in the United States.<ref>[http://gislounge.com/features/aa041101c.shtml "Population Density"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210010305/http://gislounge.com/features/aa041101c.shtml |date=February 10, 2007 }}, Geographic Information Systems - GIS of Interest. Accessed May 17, 2007. "What I discovered is that out of the 3140 counties listed in the Census population data only 178 counties were calculated to have a population density over one person per acre. Not surprisingly, New York County (which contains Manhattan) had the highest population density with a calculated 104.218 persons per acre."</ref><ref name="census2000">{{cite web|title=Census 2000 Data for the State of New York|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|url=https://www.census.gov/census2000/states/ny.html|access-date=July 19, 2006}}</ref>


New York City is multicultural. About 36% of the city's population is foreign-born,<ref name="NYC immigration">{{cite news|title=The Newest New Yorkers: 2000 |author=[[New York City Department of City Planning]] |year=2005 |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/nny_briefing_booklet.pdf |access-date=March 27, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090329053958/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/nny_briefing_booklet.pdf |archive-date=March 29, 2009 }}</ref> one of the highest among US cities. The eleven nations constituting the largest sources of modern immigration to New York City are the [[Dominican Republic]], [[China]], [[Jamaica]], [[Guyana]], [[Mexico]], [[Ecuador]], [[Brazil]], [[Haiti]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Colombia]], [[Russia]] and [[El Salvador]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Appendix Table 5-4: Ten Largest Sources of the Foreign-Born by County New York Metropolitan Region, 2000 |publisher=[[New York City Department of City Planning]] |year=2005 |url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/nny_table_5_4.pdf |access-date=March 26, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614001800/http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/nny_table_5_4.pdf |archive-date=June 14, 2007 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
New York is the most populous city in the United States, with an estimated 2005 population of 8,213,839 (up from 7.3 million in 1990).<ref name="census">{{cite web |publisher=[[New York Post]] |title=Big Apple Coming to Its Census |url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/03202008/news/regionalnews/big_apple_coming_to_its_census_102755.htm |accessdate=2008-03-20}}</ref> New York's two key demographic features are its [[population density]] and [[cultural diversity]]. The city's population density of 26,403 people per square mile (10,194/km²), makes it the densest of any American municipality with a population above 100,000.<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-_lang=en&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_GCTPH1R_US13S&-format=US-13|US-13S&-CONTEXT=gct United States -- Places and (in selected states) County Subdivisions with 50,000 or More Population; and for Puerto Rico], [[United States Census Bureau]] [[United States Census, 2000]]. Accessed [[June 12]], [[2007]].</ref> Manhattan's population density is 66,940 people per square mile (25,846/km²), highest of any county in the United States.<ref>[http://gislounge.com/features/aa041101c.shtml "Population Density"], Geographic Information Systems - GIS of Interest. Accessed [[May 17]], [[2007]]. "What I discovered is that out of the 3140 counties listed in the Census population data only 178 counties were calculated to have a population density over one person per acre. Not surprisingly, New York County (which contains Manhattan) had the highest population density with a calculated 104.218 persons per acre."</ref><ref name="census2000">{{cite web|title=Census 2000 Data for the State of New York|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|url=http://www.census.gov/census2000/states/ny.html|accessdate=2006-07-19}}</ref>


New York is the largest city in the United States, with the city proper's population more than double the next largest city, [[Los Angeles]] (or roughly equivalent to the combined populations of Los Angeles, [[Chicago]], and [[Houston]], the United States' second, third, and fourth most populous cities respectively). In 2006, demographers estimated New York's population would reach 9.1 million by 2030.<ref>{{cite news|title=New York City Population Projections by Age/Sex and Borough, 2000-2030 |author=[[New York City Department of City Planning]] |date=December 2006 |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/projections_report.pdf |access-date=March 27, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070112022450/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/projections_report.pdf |archive-date=January 12, 2007 |df=mdy}} See also {{cite news|last=Roberts |first=Sam |title=By 2025, Planners See a Million New Stories in the Crowded City |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 19, 2006 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/nyregion/19population.html |access-date=July 19, 2006}}</ref>
New York City is exceptionally diverse. Throughout its history the city has been a major point of entry for [[Immigration|immigrants]]; the term "[[melting pot]]" was first coined to describe densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the [[Lower East Side, Manhattan|Lower East Side]]. 36% of the city's population is foreign-born.<ref name="NYC immigration" /> Among US cities, this proportion is higher only in [[Los Angeles]] and [[Miami, Florida|Miami]].<ref name="census2000" /> While the immigrant communities in those cities are dominated by a few nationalities, in New York no single country or region of origin dominates. The ten nations constituting the largest sources of modern immigration to New York City are the [[Dominican Republic]], [[People's Republic of China|China]], [[Jamaica]], [[Guyana]], [[Mexico]], [[Ecuador]], [[Haiti]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Colombia]], and [[Russia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Appendix Table 5-4: Ten Largest Sources of the Foreign-Born by County New York Metropolitan Region, 2000 |publisher=[[New York City Department of City Planning]] |year=2005 |url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/nny_table_5_4.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2007-03-26}}</ref> About 170 languages are spoken in the city.<ref name="languages in NYC" />
In 2000 the reported life expectancy of New Yorkers was above the national average. Life expectancy for females born in 2009 in New York City is 80.2 years and for males is 74.5 years.<ref>{{cite news|title=Summary of Vital Statistics|author=New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene|date=April 21, 2003|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/vs/2001sum.pdf|access-date=April 21, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070228104115/http://home2.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/vs/2001sum.pdf|archive-date=February 28, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>


===Households===
As of the 2000 census, The New York metropolitan area is home to 3,372,512 Italians making them the largest white group in New York. The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest number of Jews outside [[Israel]]. There are more Jews within New York City limits than within [[Jerusalem]] city limits, making the New York City Jewish community the largest such community in the world. About 12% of New Yorkers claim to be Jewish or of Jewish descent.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jewish Community Study of New York |publisher=United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York |year=2002 |url=http://www.ujafedny.org/atf/cf/%7BAD848866-09C4-482C-9277-51A5D9CD6246%7D/JCommStudyIntro.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2007-03-26}}</ref> New York is also home to nearly a quarter of the nation's [[Indian American|South Asians]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Census Profile:New York City's Indian American Population |publisher=Asian American Federation of New York |year=2004 |url=http://www.aafny.org/cic/briefs/indianamer.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2007-03-28}}</ref> and the largest [[African American]] community of any city in the country.
The 2000 census counted 2,021,588 households with a median income of $38,293. 30% of households had children under the age of 18, and 37% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together. 19% had a single female householder, and 39% were non-families. 32% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10% were single residents 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.59 persons, and the average family size was 3.32.

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The seven largest ethnic groups as of the 2005 census estimates are: [[African American|African]], [[Puerto Ricans in the United States|Puerto Ricans]], [[Italian American|Italians]], [[Caribbean|West Indians]], [[Dominican American|Dominicans]], [[Chinese Americans|Chinese]] and [[Irish American|Irish]].<ref name="acs_socio_05">{{cite web|title=NYC2005 &mdash; Results from the 2005 American Community Survey: Socioeconomic Characteristics by Race/Hispanic Origin and Ancestry Group|publisher=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/acs_socio_05_nyc.pdf|format=PDF|year=2005|accessdate=2007-08-14}}</ref><ref name="nyc_popacs">[http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/census/popacs.shtml Population Division American Community Survey &mdash; [[New York City Department of City Planning]]</ref> The Puerto Rican population of New York City is the [[Puerto Rican migration to New York|largest outside Puerto Rico]].<ref>Archive of the Mayor's Press Office, [http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/98a/pr256-98.html ''Mayor Giuliani Proclaims Puerto Rican Week in New York City''], Tuesday, June 9, 1998.</ref> [[Italian People|Italians]] emigrated to the city in large numbers in the early twentieth century, establishing several "[[Little Italy]]s." The [[Irish American|Irish]] also have a [[Irish Americans in New York City|notable presence]]. In fact, more people in [[New York City|New York]] claim Irish ancestry than in any other city in the world; including [[Dublin]].
|+% population by age range

New York City has a high degree of income disparity. In 2005 the median household income in the wealthiest census tract was reported to be $188,697, while in the poorest it was $9,320.<ref>{{cite news|author=Roberts, Sam |title=In Manhattan, Poor Make 2 Cents for Each Dollar to the Rich |publisher=The New York Times |date=[[April 9]], [[2005]] |url=http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/SamRoberts4Sep05.htm |accessdate=2007-03-27}}</ref> The disparity is driven by wage growth in high income brackets, while wages have stagnated for middle and lower income brackets. In 2006 the average weekly wage in Manhattan was $1,453, the highest and fastest growing among the largest counties in the United States.<ref name=ManhattanLabor>{{cite web |title=Average Weekly Wage in Manhattan at $1,453 in Second Quarter 2006 |publisher=Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor|date=[[February 20]], [[2007]] |url=http://www.bls.gov/ro2/fax/qcew9310.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2007-02-21}}</ref> The borough is also experiencing a "baby boom" among the wealthy that is unique among U.S. cities. Since 2000, the number of children under age 5 living in Manhattan has grown by more than 32%.<ref>{{cite news|title=In Surge in Manhattan Toddlers, Rich White Families Lead Way |author=Roberts, Sam |publisher=The New York Times |date=[[2007-03-27]] |url= http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/nyregion/23kid.html|accessdate=2007-03-27}}</ref>

Home ownership in New York City is about 33%, much lower than the national average of 69%, which includes non-city dwelling populations. <ref>[http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/homeownership/ Homeownership]</ref> Rental vacancy is usually between 3% and 4.5%, well below the 5% threshold defined to be a housing emergency, justifying the continuation of [[Rent control in New York|rent control and rent stabilization]]. About 33% of rental units fall under rent stabilization, according to which increases are adjudicated periodically by city agencies. Rent control covers only a very small number of rental units. <ref>[http://www.helium.com/tm/329063/normally-quite-optimistic-person How to find a cheap apartment in New York City] </ref><ref> [http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr/vacancy.shtml Housing Vacancy Survey]</ref>. Some critics point to New York City's strict zoning and other regulations as partial causes for the housing shortage, but during the city's decline in population from the 1960s through the 1980s, a large number of apartment buildings suffered suspected arson fires or were abandoned by their owners. Once the population trend was reversed, with rising prospects for rentals and sales, new construction has resumed, but generally for higher income brackets.
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===Population===
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|colspan="3"|'''New York City compared'''
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|'''Age range'''
|'''[[United States Census, 2000|2000 Census Data]]'''||'''New York'''||'''[[Los Angeles, California|LA]]'''||'''[[Chicago]]'''||'''[[New York|New York State]]'''||'''[[United States]]'''
!2000 Census
|-
|-
|Under the age of 18
|Total population||8,008,278||3,694,820||2,896,121||18,976,457||281,421,906
|24%
|-
|-
|Between 18 and 24
|Population, percent change, 1990 to 2000||+9.4%||+6%||+4%||+5.5%||+13.1%
|10%
|-
|-
|Between 25 and 44
|Population density||26,402.9/mi²||7,876.8/mi²||12,750.3/mi²||402/mi²||80/mi²
|33%
|-
|-
|Between 45 and 64
|Median household income (1999)||$38,293||$36,687||$38,625||$43,393||$41,994
|21%
|-
|-
|Aged 65 or older
|Per capita income (1999)||$22,402||$20,671||$20,175||$23,389||$21,587
|-
|12%
|Bachelor's degree or higher||27%||26%||26%||27%||24%
|-
|Foreign born||36%||41%||22%||20%||11%
|-
|[[White American|White]]||45%||47%||42%||68%||75%
|-
|[[African American|Black]]||27%||11%||37%||16%||12%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]] (any race)||27%||47%||26%||15%||13%
|-
|[[Asian American|Asian]]||10%||10%||4%||6%||4%
|}
|}
The median age in New York City in 2000 was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86 males.
New York is the largest city in the United States, with the city proper's population more than double the next largest city, [[Los Angeles]] (or roughly equivalent to the combined populations of Los Angeles, [[Chicago]], and [[Houston]], America's second, third, and fourth most populous cities respectively). The city has a population more than that of 39 U.S. states. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population] The estimated 2007 population of New York City is 8,274,527 (up from 7.072 million in 1980).<ref name="census" /> This amounts to about 40% of New York State's population and a similar percentage of the metropolitan regional population. Over the last decade the city has been growing rapidly. Demographers estimate New York's population will reach between 9.4 and 9.7 million by 2030.<ref>{{cite news|title=New York City Population Projections by Age/Sex and Borough, 2000-2030|author=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|date=12-2006|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/projections_report.pdf|accessdate=2007-03-27|format=PDF}} See also {{cite news|last=Roberts|first=Sam|title=By 2025, Planners See a Million New Stories in the Crowded City|publisher=New York Times|date=2006-02-19|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/nyregion/19population.html?ex=1298005200&en=c586d38abbd16541&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss|accessdate=2006-07-19}}</ref>
In 2000 the life expectancy of New Yorkers surpassed that of the United States national average. Life expectancy for females born in 2000 in New York City is 80.2 years and for males is 74.5 years.<ref>{{cite news|title=Summary of Vital Statistics|author=New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene|date=2003-04-21|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/vs/2001sum.pdf|accessdate=2007-04-21|format=PDF}}</ref>


During the 2000s, Manhattan experienced a "baby boom" unique among U.S. cities. Between 2000 and 2007, the number of children under age 5 living in Manhattan grew by more than 32%.<ref>{{cite news|title=In Surge in Manhattan Toddlers, Rich White Families Lead Way|first=Sam|last=Roberts|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 27, 2007|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/nyregion/23kid.html|access-date=March 27, 2007}}</ref> The increase is driven mostly by affluent white families with median household incomes over $300,000.
New York's two key demographic features are its density and diversity. The city has an extremely high [[population density]] of 26,403 people per square mile (10,194/km²), about 10,000 more people per square mile than the next densest large American city, [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]].<ref>For cities with more than 200,000 residents.{{cite web|title=G.I.S. Lounge U.S. Population Density, 2000 Census|url=http://gislounge.com/features/aa041101c.shtml|publiser=GiS Lounge|accessdate=2006-01-29}}</ref> Manhattan's population density is 66,940 people per square mile (25,846/km²).<ref name="census2000">{{cite web|title=Census 2000 Data for the State of New York|author=U.S. Census Bureau|url=http://www.census.gov/census2000/states/ny.html|accessdate=2006-07-19}}</ref>


===Income===
The city has a long tradition of attracting international immigration and Americans seeking careers in certain sectors. As of 2006, New York City has ranked number one for seven consecutive years as the city most U.S. residents would most like to live in or near.<ref>{{cite news|title=California and New York City Most Popular Places People would choose to Live|author=Harris Interactive|date=2005-09-11|url=http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=697|accessdate=2007-03-02}}</ref>
Overall, nominal household income in New York City is characterized by large variations. This phenomenon is especially true of Manhattan, which in 2005 was home to the highest incomes U.S. census tract, with a household income of $188,697, as well as the lowest, where household income was $9,320.<ref>{{cite news|last=Roberts|first=Sam|title=In Manhattan, Poor Make 2 Cents for Each Dollar to the Rich|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 9, 2005|url=http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/SamRoberts4Sep05.htm|access-date=March 27, 2007|archive-date=July 9, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709121714/http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/SamRoberts4Sep05.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> The disparity is driven in part by wage growth in high income brackets. In 2006 the average weekly wage in Manhattan was $1,453, the highest among the largest counties in the United States.<ref name=ManhattanLabor/> Wages in Manhattan were the fastest growing among the nation's 10 largest counties.<ref name=ManhattanLabor /> Among young adults in New York who work full-time, women now earn more money than men — approximately $5,000 more in 2005.<ref>{{cite news|title=Women are Winners|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 20, 2007|url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/20/podcast-women-are-winners/#more-394 | first=Sam | last=Roberts | access-date=May 1, 2010}}</ref>

===Immigration===
Throughout its history New York City has been a principal entry point for [[immigration to the United States]]. The city experienced major [[immigration]] from Europe in the 19th century and another major wave in the early 20th century. Since the passage of the [[Immigration and Nationality Act]] of 1965, and particularly since the 1980s, New York City has seen renewed rates of high immigration. Newer immigrants are from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. 36% of the city's population is foreign-born.<ref name="NYC immigration" /> Among American cities, this proportion is higher only in Los Angeles and Miami.<ref name="census2000" /> While the immigrant communities in those cities are dominated by a few nationalities, in New York no single country or region of origin dominates. The ten largest countries of origin are the [[Dominican Republic]], [[People's Republic of China|China]], [[Jamaica]], [[Guyana]], [[Mexico]], [[Ecuador]], [[Haiti]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Colombia]], and [[Russia]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Appendix Table 5-4: Ten Largest Sources of the Foreign-Born by County New York Metropolitan Region, 2000|author=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|year=2005|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/nny_table_5_4.pdf|accessdate=2007-03-26|format=PDF}}</ref> About 170 languages are spoken in the city.<ref name="languages in NYC" /> Between 1990 and 2000 the city admitted 1,224,524 immigrants.<ref>{{cite news|title=2000 Census|author=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|year=2000|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/mpsf3sb4.pdf|accessdate=2007-05-24|format=PDF}}</ref> Demographers and city officials have observed that immigration to New York City has been slowing since 1997. This is mostly due to more and more immigrants choosing directly to locate to the city's suburbs and then commute to the city or work in many of its booming [[edge cities]] like [[Fort Lee, NJ]], [[Jersey City]], [[Morristown, NJ]], [[Stamford, CT]], [[White Plains, NY]] and others. Despite the slowdown in immigration the city's overall immigrant population has continued to increase and in 2006 it numbered 3.038 million (37.0%) up from 2.871 million (35.9%) in 2000.<ref>[http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/beveridge-fizzy-future?page=0%2C1 The New York Observer: Beveridge Fizzy On Future<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=&geo_id=16000US3651000&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US36%7C16000US3651000&_street=&_county=new+york+city&_cityTown=new+york+city&_state=&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=DEC_2000_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null&reg=null%3Anull&_keyword=&_industry= 2006 American Community Survey: New York City<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


New York City's borough of Manhattan is the highest nominal income county in the United States. In particular, [[ZIP code]] 10021 on Manhattan's [[Upper East Side]], with more than 100,000 inhabitants and a per capita income of over $90,000, has one of the largest concentrations of income in the United States. The other boroughs, especially Queens and Staten Island, have large middle-class populations. New York City's per capita income in 2000 was $22,402; men and women had a median income of $37,435 and $32,949 respectively. 21.2% of the population and 18.5% of families had incomes below the federal poverty line; 30.0% of this group were under the age of 18 and 17.8% were 65 and older. Of [[Forbes 400|Forbes Magazine's 400 richest American billionaires]], 70 live in New York City.<ref name="richest New Yorkers 2013">{{cite news|title=David Koch Tops 70 N.Y. Billionaires on Forbes List; Conn. Has 11|url=http://newyork.citybizlist.com/article/david-koch-tops-70-ny-billionaires-forbes-list-conn-has-11$17-billion|date=March 5, 2013}} {{dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> Former mayor and Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is one of the nation's richest men. As of 2009 New York has regained the number one spot as the city with most billionaires (55), after losing out to Moscow in 2008.
===Racial and Ethnic composition===
{{seealso|Racial and Ethnic History of New York City}}
According to the 2006 American Community Survey 43.9% of New Yorkers were [[White American|white]], 34.8% white non-hispanic and 9.1% white hispanic. 25.1% of the population was black or [[African American]], 11.7% was [[Asian American|Asian]] and 0.3% were [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|American Indian]]. Another 17% belonged to other racial categories and 2.0% of New Yorkers identified themselves as belonging to more than one race. 27.6% were [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]] or Latino of any race.<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=Search&geo_id=&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=new+york+city&_cityTown=new+york+city&_state=&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010 2006 American Community Survey: New York City<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


New York City has a high degree of [[income disparity|income variation]]. In 2005 the median household income in the highest census tract was reported to be $188,697, while in the lowest it was $9,320.<ref>{{cite news |author=Roberts, Sam |title=In Manhattan, Poor Make 2 Cents for Each Dollar to the Rich |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 9, 2005 |url=http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/SamRoberts4Sep05.htm |access-date=March 27, 2007 |archive-date=July 9, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709121714/http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/SamRoberts4Sep05.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The variance is driven by wage growth in high income brackets, while wages have stagnated for middle and lower income brackets. In 2006 the average weekly wage in Manhattan was $1,453, the highest and fastest growing among the largest counties in the United States.<ref name=ManhattanLabor>{{cite web |title=Average Weekly Wage in Manhattan at $1,453 in Second Quarter 2006 |publisher=Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor|date=February 20, 2007 |url=http://www.bls.gov/ro2/fax/qcew9310.pdf |access-date=February 21, 2007}}</ref> The borough is also experiencing a "baby boom" among the wealthy that is unique among U.S. cities. Since 2000, the number of children under age 5 living in Manhattan has grown by more than 32%.<ref>{{cite news|title=In Surge in Manhattan Toddlers, Rich White Families Lead Way |author=Roberts, Sam |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 27, 2007 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/nyregion/23kid.html|access-date=March 27, 2007}}</ref>
Main European ancestries as of 2000 census:<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=16000US3651000&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_QTP13&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U American Factfinder 2000 Ancestry: New York City<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
*[[Italian American|Italian]] : 8.7%
*[[Irish American|Irish]] : 5.3%
*[[German American|German]] : 3.2%
*[[Russian American|Russian]] : 3.0%
*[[Polish American|Polish]] : 2.7%
*[[English American|English]] : 1.6%
*[[Greek American|Greek]] : 1.0%


In 2000, about 3 out of every 10 New York City housing units were owner-occupied, compared to about 2 owner-occupied units out of every 3 units in the U.S. as a whole.<ref>[[U.S. Census Bureau]], ''[[Statistical Abstract of the United States]], 2003'' (page 617), Table 957: Housing Units and Tenure for Large Cities: 2000</ref> Rental vacancy is usually between 3% and 4.5%, well below the 5% threshold defined to be a housing emergency, justifying the continuation of [[Rent control in New York|rent control and rent stabilization]]. About 33% of rental units fall under rent stabilization, according to which increases are adjudicated periodically by city agencies. Rent control covers only a very small number of rental units.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr/vacancy.shtml|title=Housing Vacancy Survey|website=Nyc.gov|access-date=2017-08-29}}</ref> Some critics point to New York City's strict zoning and other regulations as partial causes for the housing shortage, but during the city's decline in population from the 1960s through the 1980s, a large number of apartment buildings suffered suspected arson fires or were abandoned by their owners. Once the population trend was reversed, with rising prospects for rentals and sales, new construction has resumed, but generally for purchasers in higher income brackets.
The city has several demographically unique characteristics. The borough of [[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.<ref>{{cite news|title=Black Incomes Surpass Whites in Queens|last=Roberts|first=Sam|publisher=The New York Times|date=2006-01-10|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/nyregion/01census.html?ref=nyregion|accessdate=2007-03-28}}</ref> It is also the nation's most ethnically diverse county.<ref name="queensdiverse">{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/nyregion/04fourth.html|first=Michelle|last=O'Donnell|title=In Queens, It's the Glorious 4th, and 6th, and 16th, and 25th...|publisher=New York Times|date=[[2006-07-04]]|accessdate=2006-07-19}}</ref>


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The New York City metropolitan area is home to the largest [[American Jews|Jewish community]] outside [[Israel]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Jewish Community Study of New York|author=United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York|year=2002|url=http://www.ujafedny.org/atf/cf/%7BAD848866-09C4-482C-9277-51A5D9CD6246%7D/JCommStudyIntro.pdf|accessdate=2007-03-26|format=PDF}}</ref> It is also home to nearly a quarter of the nation's [[Indian-American|South Asians]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Census Profile:New York City's Indian American Population|author=Asian American Federation of New York|year=2004|url=http://www.aafny.org/cic/briefs/indianamer.pdf|accessdate=2007-03-28|format=PDF}}</ref> and 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 [[Italian people|Italians]], who emigrated to the city in large numbers in the early twentieth century, New York City is home to the largest Italian population in the US. The [[Irish Americans in New York City|Irish]] also have a notable presence.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|+align=top|% Foreign born by borough 1970-2006
|-
|-
! Area
|align=left|'''Borough'''
![[Household income in the United States#Median income|Median<br />House-<br />hold<br />Income]]<br />
!<br/>1970
![[Household income in the United States#Mean income|Mean<br />House-<br />hold<br />Income]]<br />
!<br/>1980
!Percent-<br />age in <br />Poverty
!<br/>1990
!<br/>2000
!<br/>2006
|-
|-
|[[The Bronx]]
|align=left|Brooklyn||17.5||23.8||29.2||37.8||37.8
|$34,156
|$46,298
|27.1%
|-
|-
|[[Brooklyn]]
|align=left|Queens||21.0||28.6||36.2||46.1||48.5
| $41,406
| $60,020
|21.9%
|-
|-
|[[Manhattan]]
|align=left|Manhattan||20.0||24.4||25.8||29.4||28.7
|$64,217
|$121,549
|17.6%
|-
|-
|[[Queens]]
|align=left|Bronx||15.6||18.4||22.8||29.0||31.8
|$53,171
|$67,027
|12.0%
|-
|-
|align=left|Staten Island||9.0||9.8||11.8||16.4||20.9
|[[Staten Island]]
|$66,985
|-
|$81,498
|align=left|'''Total'''||18.2||23.6||28.4||35.9||37.0
|9.8%
|-
|- style="background:#efe;"
|+align=bottom|Source: NYC.gov<ref>{{cite news|title=The Newest New Yorkers: 2000
|[[New York City]]
|author=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|year=2005|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/nny_table_5_3.pdf|accessdate=2007-05-05|format=PDF}}</ref>
|$48,631
|-
|$75,809
|}
|18.5%
|- style="background:#ded;"
|[[New York State]]
|$53,514
|$77,865
|13.7%
|- style="background:#cdc;"
|[[United States]]
|$50,140
|$69,193
|13.0%
|}<!-- Religion: Although a previous section outlined religious demographics, the statistics provided were for the entire metropolitan area as opposed to the city itself (which is the subject of this article). Because the latter accounts for less than half the former's population, such figures are likely inaccurate for NYC, especially considering the typical disparity in religiosity between urbanites and suburban/rural communities. If there are appropriate figures available, please add them; until then, however, assure that any religious information provided is for the city of new york alone, not the entire metro area. -->


===Households===
=== Boroughs ===
{{excerpt|Boroughs of New York City}}
The 2000 census counted 3,021,588 households with a median income of $38,293. 30% of households had children under the age of 18, and 37% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together. 19% had a single female householder, and 39% were non-families. 32% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10% were single residents 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.59 persons, and the average family size was 3.32.
{{NYC boroughs}}


===Projections===
The age range was as follows: 24% were under the age of 18, 10% between 18 and 24, 33% between 25 to 44, 21% between 45 to 64, and 12% were 65 or older. The median age in New York City in 2000 was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86 males.
'''Neighborhood Tabulation Areas''' ('''NTA'''s) are a geographic unit created to help project populations at a small area level, as part of the long-term sustainability plan for the city known as '''PlaNYC''', covering the years 2000–2030. The minimum population for an NTA is 15,000 people, a level seen as a useful summary level which can be used both with the 2010 Census and the [[American Community Survey]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (Formerly "Neighborhood Projection Areas") | website=NYC Planning| url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/open-data/dwn-nynta.page | access-date=27 July 2020}}</ref>


New York has ranked first in population among American cities since the first census in 1790. New York will maintain this position for the foreseeable future, although there are varying forecasts on how much the population will increase. The most realistic population projections from the Department of City Planning anticipate a 1.1 million increase by 2030, bringing the city's population total to 9.1 million.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
The borough of [[Manhattan]] is experiencing a "baby boom" that is unique among U.S. cities. Since 2000, the number of children under age 5 living in Manhattan grew by more than 32%.<ref>{{cite news|title=In Surge in Manhattan Toddlers, Rich White Families Lead Way|first=Sam|last=Roberts|publisher=The New York Times|date=2007-03-27|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/nyregion/23kid.html|accessdate=2007-03-27}}</ref> The increase is driven mostly by affluent white families with median household incomes over $300,000.

===Income===
[[Image:New York City Per Capita Income in 1999 By Borough.png|230px|thumb|right|1999 per capita income was not uniform across the boroughs. Family income was much higher in each borough.]]


While the city's projected 2030 population will be a new high, only two boroughs, Staten Island and Queens have reached their population peak every year for the last 5 years. The study projects that by 2030, [[Queens]] will have 2.57 million people and [[Staten Island]] 552,000. [[Manhattan]], with 1.83 million, [[Bronx]] with 1.46 million and [[Brooklyn]] with 2.72 million, will still be below their population peaks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/projections_briefing_booklet.pdf|title=New York City Department of City Planning: NYC Population Projections by Age/Sex and Borough, 2000-2030|website=Nyc.gov|access-date=2017-08-29|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110917/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/projections_briefing_booklet.pdf|archive-date=March 4, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
Overall, the distribution of household income in New York City is characterized by tremendous disparities. This phenomenon is especially true of Manhattan, which in 2005 was home to the wealthiest U.S. census, tract with a household income of $188,697, as well as the poorest, where household income was $9,320.<ref>{{cite news|last=Roberts|first=Sam|title=In Manhattan, Poor Make 2 Cents for Each Dollar to the Rich|publisher=The New York Times|date=2005-04-09|url=http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/SamRoberts4Sep05.htm|accessdate=2007-03-27}}</ref> The disparity is driven in part by wage growth in high income brackets. In 2006 the average weekly wage in Manhattan was $1,453, the highest among the largest counties in the United States.<ref name=ManhattanLabor>{{cite news|title=Average Weekly Wage in Manhattan at $1,453 in Second Quarter 2006|author=Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor|date=2007-02-20|url=http://www.bls.gov/ro2/fax/qcew9310.pdf|accessdate=2007-02-21|format=PDF}}</ref> Wages in Manhattan were the fastest growing among the nation's 10 largest counties.<ref name=ManhattanLabor /> Among young adults in New York who work full time, women now earn more money than men—in 2005 approximately $5,000 more. <ref>{{cite web|title=Women are Winners|publisher=The New York Times|date=2007-07-20|url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/20/podcast-women-are-winners/#more-394}}</ref> Nationally, women’s wages still lag behind men.


====Disputed 2010 Census data====
New York City's borough of Manhattan is the richest county in the United States. In particular, [[ZIP code]] 10021 on Manhattan's [[Upper East Side]], with over 100,000 inhabitants and a per capita income of over $90,000, has one of the largest concentrations of extreme wealth in the United States. The so-called outer boroughs, especially Queens and Staten Island, have large middle class populations.
On March 27, 2011, [[New York City]] Mayor [[Michael Bloomberg]] announced that the city would file a formal challenge to the Census results, as a result of alleged undercounting in the boroughs of [[Queens]] and [[Brooklyn]].<ref>NYC To File Formal Challenge to 2010 Census under Count Question Resolution Process {{cite web|url=http://www.mikebloomberg.com/index.cfm?objectid%3DF93690A8-C29C-7CA2-F22FCD1FB0842DD4 |title=NYC to File Formal Challenge to the 2010 Census Count |access-date=2011-03-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110330064242/http://www.mikebloomberg.com/index.cfm?objectid=F93690A8-C29C-7CA2-F22FCD1FB0842DD4 |archive-date=March 30, 2011}}</ref> The mayor has asserted that the numbers for Queens and Brooklyn, the two most populous boroughs, are implausible.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mikebloomberg.com/index.cfm?objectid=E98B9E79-C29C-7CA2-FE04261B98D69D26 |title=Mike Bloomberg - On the 2010 Census Results |work=MikeBloomberg.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110528071135/http://www.mikebloomberg.com/index.cfm?objectid=E98B9E79-C29C-7CA2-FE04261B98D69D26 |archive-date=May 28, 2011}}</ref> According to the Census, they grew by only 0.1% and 1.6%, respectively, while the other boroughs grew by between 3% and 5%. In addition, the Mayor claims, the census showed improbably high amounts of vacant housing in vital neighborhoods such as [[Jackson Heights, Queens]].


=== Race and ethnicity ===
New York City's per capita income in 2000 was $22,402; men and women had a median income of $37,435 and $32,949 respectively. 21.2% of the population and 18.5% of families had incomes below the federal poverty line; 30.0% of this group were under the age of 18 and 17.8% were 65 and older.
{{Main|Race and ethnicity in New York City|New York City ethnic enclaves}}


[[File:Race and ethnicity 2010- New York City (5559914315).png|thumb|Map of racial distribution in New York, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: <span style="color:#f00;">'''White'''</span>, <span style="color:#00f;">'''Black'''</span>, <span style="color:#00ff80">'''Asian'''</span>, <span style="color:#ff8000">'''Hispanic'''</span>, or '''Other''' (yellow)]]
The New Yorker who is listed as the richest individual, oil magnate [[David H. Koch]], was worth an estimated $17 billion in October 2007.<ref name="richest New Yorkers">{{cite news|title=Mind the Income Gap|author=New York Magazine|date=2006-11-06|url=http://nymag.com/guides/money/2006/23488/|accessdate=2006-11-08}}</ref> The poorest New Yorkers, 1.5 million people with incomes below the poverty line, are collectively worth less than Mr. Koch's net worth. Of [[List of billionaires (2006)|Forbes Magazine's 400 richest Americans]], 72 live in New York City, and they are each worth at least $1 billion.<ref name="richest New Yorkers" /> New York City's present mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is himself one of the nation's richest men. After Moscow, New York City has the highest amount of billionaires.
[[File:chinatown manhattan 2009.JPG|thumb|[[Chinatown, Manhattan]], is the [[Chinese people in New York City|highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere]].<ref name="fact-sheet"/>]]
[[File:Jueus ultraortodoxes satmar a brooklyn.jpg|thumb|[[Brooklyn]]'s [[Jews|Jewish]] community is the largest in the United States, with approximately 600,000 individuals.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-residents-jews-new-study-finds-article-1.1100080|title=Nearly one in four Brooklyn residents are Jews, new study finds|author=Simone Weichselbaum|newspaper=New York Daily News|date=June 26, 2012|access-date=May 29, 2013}}</ref>]]


The city's population in 2020 was 30.9% [[White Americans|White]] (non-Hispanic), 28.3% [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]], 20.2% [[African Americans in New York City|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic), 15.6% [[Asian Americans in New York City|Asian]], and 0.2% [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] (non-Hispanic). A total of 3.4% of the non-Hispanic population identified with [[Multiracial Americans|more than one race]] and 1.4% as some other race.<ref name=2020CensusP2/>
New York City's [[unemployment]] rate in October 2006 was 4.1%, lower than the nationwide rate of 4.4%.<ref>{{cite news|title=City’s Unemployment Rate Falls to Its Lowest Level in 30 Years|author=The New York Times|date=2006-11-17|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/17/nyregion/17jobs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin|accessdate=2006-11-17}}</ref>


{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
===Religions===
|+'''New York City, New York – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
|+align=top|Religious groups in New York City
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – New York City, New York|url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=160XX00US3651000&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – New York City, New York|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US3651000&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – New York City, New York|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US3651000&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] (NH)
|align=left|'''Borough'''
|2,801,267
!Population<br/>2000 census
|2,722,904
!%<br/>Catholic
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2,719,856
!% not<br/>affiliated
|34.98%
!%<br/>Jewish
|33.31%
!%<br/>Protestant
|style='background: #ffffe6; |30.89%
!Estimated %<br/>Not Counted,<br/>Mostly Black<br/>Protestant
|-
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] (NH)
|align=left|Brooklyn||2,465,326||37||4||15||8||33
|1,962,154
|1,861,295
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,776,891
|24.50%
|22.77%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |20.18%
|-
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] (NH)
|align=left|Queens||2,229,379||29||37||11||5||15
|17,321
|17,427
|style='background: #ffffe6; |19,146
|0.22%
|0.21%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.22%
|-
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] (NH)
|align=left|Manhattan||1,593,200||35||14||20||9||19
|780,229
|1,028,119
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,373,502
|9.74%
|12.58%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |15.60%
|-
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] or [[Native Hawaiian]] (NH)
|align=left|Bronx||1,357,589||43||16||6||5||29
|2,829
|2,795
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3,302
|0.04%
|0.03%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.04%
|-
|-
|[[Other races (U.S. Census)|Some other race]] (NH)
|align=left|Staten Island||464,573||57||15||7||5||14
|58,775
|57,841
|style='background: #ffffe6; |121,184
|0.73%
|0.71%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.38%
|-
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Two or more races or Multiracial]] (NH)
|align=left|'''Total'''||8,110,067||37||18||13||6||23
|225,149
|148,676
|style='background: #ffffe6; |299,959
|2.81%
|1.82%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.41%
|-
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|+align=bottom|Source: ARDA<ref>[http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/reports/selectCounty.asp?state=36&county=25001 The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA), Year 2000 Report] Churches were asked for their membership numbers.</ref>
|2,160,554
|2,336,076
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2,490,350
|26.98%
|28.58%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |28.29%
|-
|-
|'''Total'''
|}
|'''8,008,278'''

|'''8,175,133'''
==Population projections==
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''8,804,190'''
New York has ranked first in population among American cities since the first census in 1790. New York will maintain this position, although there are varying forecasts on how much the population will increase. The most realistic population projections from the Department of City Planning anticipate a 1.1 million increase by 2030, bringing the city’s population total to 9.1 million.
|'''100.00%'''

|'''100.00%'''
While the city’s projected 2030 population will be a new high, only two boroughs, Staten Island and Queens, will reach a new population peak in 2030. The study projects that by 2030, [[Queens]] will have 2.57 million people and [[Staten Island]] 552,000. [[Manhattan]], with 1.83 million, [[Bronx]] with 1.46 million and [[Brooklyn]] with 2.72 million, will still be below their population peaks.<ref>[http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/projections_briefing_booklet.pdf New York City Department of City Planning: NYC Population Projections by Age/Sex and Borough, 2000-2030<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''

==Historic population figures==

{| id="toc"
!colspan="7"|Historical Population of New York City post*-Greater New York City'''.<ref>[http://www.popline.org/docs/1219/253795.html Population of states and counties of the United States: 1790-1990. From the twenty-one decennial censuses.<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
|-
|-
|style="width:45px" align="center"|'''Year'''||style="width:75px" align="center"|'''Manhattan'''||style="width:75px;" align="center"|'''Brooklyn'''||style="width:75px;" align="center"|'''Queens'''<small></small>||style="width:75px;" align="center"|'''Bronx'''<small></small>||style="width:75px;" align="center"|'''Staten Is.'''||style="width:75px" align="center"|'''Total'''
|- align="right"
||1698||4,937||2,017||''n/a''||n/a||727||
|- align="right"
||1771||21,863||3,623||''n/a''||n/a||2,847||
|- align="right"
||1790||33,131||4,549||6,159||1,781||3,827||49,447
|- align="right"
|1800||60,515||5,740||6,642||1,755||4,563||79,215
|- align="right"
|1810||96,373||8,303||7,444||2,267||5,347||119,734
|- align="right"
|1820||123,706||11,187||8,246||2,782||6,135||152,056
|- align="right"
|1830||202,589||20,535||9,049||3,023||7,082||242,278
|- align="right"
|1840||312,710||47,613||14,480||5,346||10,965||391,114
|- align="right"
|1850||515,547||138,882||18,593||8,032||15,061||696,115
|- align="right"
|1860||813,669||279,122||32,903||23,593||25,492||1,174,779
|- align="right"
|1870||942,292||419,921||45,468||37,393||33,029||1,478,103
|- align="right"
|1880||1,164,673||599,495||56,559||51,980||38,991||1,911,698
|- align="right"
|1890||1,441,216||838,547||87,050||88,908||51,693||2,507,414
|- align="right"
|1900**||1,850,093||1,166,582||152,999||200,507||67,021||3,437,202
|- align="right"
|1910||2,331,542||1,634,351||284,041||430,980||85,969||4,766,883
|- align="right"
|1920||2,284,103||2,018,356||469,042||732,016||116,531||5,620,048
|- align="right"
|1930||1,867,312||2,560,401||1,079,129||1,265,258||158,346||6,930,446
|- align="right"
|1940||1,889,924||2,698,285||1,297,634||1,394,711||174,441||7,454,995
|- align="right"
|1950||1,960,101||2,738,175||1,550,849||1,451,277||191,555||7,891,957
|- align="right"
|1960||1,698,281||2,627,319||1,809,578||1,424,815||221,991||7,781,984
|- align="right"
|1970||1,539,233||2,602,012||1,986,473||1,471,701||295,443||7,894,862
|- align="right"
|1980||1,428,285||2,230,936||1,891,325||1,168,972||352,121||7,071,639
|- align="right"
|1990||1,487,536||2,300,664||1,951,598||1,203,789||378,977||7,322,564
|- align="right"
|2000||1,537,195||2,465,326||2,229,379||1,332,650||443,728||8,008,278
|- align="right"
|2007||1,620,867||2,528,050||2,270,338||1,373,659||481,613||8,274,527
|- align="center"
|colspan="7"|* All population figures are consistent with present-day boundaries.<br/>** First census after the consolidation of the [[Borough (New York City)|five boroughs]].
|}
|}


==Major ethnic and national groups==
===African Americans and foreign-born black people===


In 2013, approximately 36% of the city's population is [[foreign born]],<ref name=NYCForeignBorn>{{cite web|url= https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewyork/PST045222|title=QuickFacts: New York city, New York|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=November 1, 2023}}</ref> and more than half of all children are born to mothers who are immigrants. Between 1990 and 2000 the city admitted 1,224,524 immigrants.<ref>{{cite news|title=2000 Census|author=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|year=2000|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/mpsf3sb4.pdf|access-date=May 24, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712134033/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/mpsf3sb4.pdf|archive-date=July 12, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Demographers and city officials have observed that immigration to New York City has been slowing since 1997. This is mostly due to more and more immigrants choosing directly to locate to the city's suburbs and then commute to the city or work in many of its booming [[edge cities]] such as [[Fort Lee, New Jersey|Fort Lee, NJ]], [[Hempstead, New York|Hempstead, NY]], [[Morristown, New Jersey|Morristown, NJ]], [[Stamford, Connecticut|Stamford, CT]], [[White Plains, New York|White Plains, NY]], and others. Despite the slowdown in immigration the city's overall immigrant population has continued to increase and in 2006 it numbered 3.038 million (37.0%) up from 2.871 million (35.9%) in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/beveridge-fizzy-future?page=0,1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203203352/http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/beveridge-fizzy-future?page=0%2C1|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-02-03|title=Real Estate|website=Observer}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=&geo_id=16000US3651000&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US36%7C16000US3651000&_street=&_county=new+york+city&_cityTown=new+york+city&_state=&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=DEC_2000_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null&reg=null:null&_keyword=&_industry=|title=American FactFinder - Community Facts|first=U.S. Census|last=Bureau|website=factfinder.census.gov|access-date=August 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205023651/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=&geo_id=16000US3651000&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US36%7C16000US3651000&_street=&_county=new+york+city&_cityTown=new+york+city&_state=&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=DEC_2000_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null&reg=null%3Anull&_keyword=&_industry=|archive-date=February 5, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> By 2013, the population of foreign-born individuals living in New York City had increased to 3.07 million, and as a percentage of total population, was the highest it had been in the past 100 years.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=More Foreign-Born Immigrants Live In NYC Than There Are People In Chicago |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/19/new-york-city-immigrants_n_4475197.html |newspaper=Huffington Post |date=December 19, 2013 |access-date=February 25, 2015}}</ref>
[[Image:Apollo Theater.jpg|thumb|230px|125th Street in [[Harlem]], an African American cultural center.]]


Throughout its history, New York City has been a principal [[port of entry]] for [[immigration to the United States]]. <ref name="CityDiversity">{{cite news |last = Semple |first = Kirk |date = June 8, 2013 |title = City's Newest Immigrant Enclaves, From Little Guyana to Meokjagolmok |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |url = https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/06/09/nyregion/new-york-citys-newest-immigrant-enclaves.html |access-date = June 12, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="NYC immigration"/> These immigrants often form [[New York City ethnic enclaves|ethnic enclaves]], neighborhoods dominated by one ethnicity. The city experienced major [[immigration]] from Europe in the 19th century and another major wave in the early 20th century, being admitted into the United States of America primarily through [[Ellis Island]]. Since the passage of the [[Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965]], and particularly since the 1980s, New York City has seen renewed rates of high immigration. Newer immigrants are from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. 36% of the city's population is foreign-born.<ref name="NYC immigration" /> Among U.S. cities, this proportion is higher only in Los Angeles and Miami.<ref name="census2000" />
According to the 2000 Census, New York City has the largest population of self-defined black residents of any U.S. city, with over 2 million within the city's boundaries. Several of the city's neighborhoods are historical birthplaces of urban black culture in America, among them the Brooklyn neighborhood of [[Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn|Bedford–Stuyvesant]] and Manhattan's [[Harlem]] and various sections of Eastern Queens and The Bronx. New York City has the largest population of black immigrants (at 686,814) and descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean (especially from [[Jamaica]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Barbados]], [[Guyana]], [[Bahamas]], [[Grenada]], and [[Haiti]]), and of sub-Saharan Africans. In a news item of [[April 3]], [[2006]], however, the ''New York Times'' noted that for the first time since the [[American Civil War]], the recorded African American population was declining, because of emigration to other regions, a declining African American birthrate in New York, and decreased immigration of blacks from the Caribbean and Africa.<ref>{{cite news|title=New York City Losing Blacks, Census Shows|author=The New York Times|date=2006-04-03|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?
There is not evidence that the Black population is declining especially if you include those who are 1)Black in combination with other races; 2)Black Hispanic; 3)the large numbers of Black New Yorkers who are institutionalized for one reason or another(American Community Survey(US Census) does not include them in its yearly counts. For some reason, the New York Planning Commission carves the first two categories out of the US Census 2000 figures then compares the remaining figure with the 1990 figures. The US Census has found that the average age of categories 1 and 2 are between 12 and 18 years old. Follow-up surveys by the US Census Bureau and the Pew Hispanic Survey are the sources for these items.
Native Born and Foreign-born Blacks have had and continue to have considerable interaction with each other including cross-cultural exchanges,sharing neighborhoods, political coalitions, and intermarriages. Theres=F30F12FB38540C708CDDAD0894DE404482|accessdate=2006-04-04}}</ref>


In New York, no single country or region of origin dominates.<ref name="CityDiversity" /> The ten largest sources of foreign-born individuals in the city {{As of|2011|lc=y}} were the [[Dominicans in New York City|Dominican Republic]], [[Chinese Americans in New York City|China]], Mexico, [[Guyanese American|Guyana]], [[Jamaican Americans|Jamaica]], [[Ecuadorian Americans|Ecuador]], [[Haitian Americans|Haiti]], [[Indians in the New York City metropolitan region|India]], [[Russian Americans in New York City|Russia]], [[Caribbeans in New York City|Trinidad and Tobago]], and [[El Salvador]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Appendix Table 5-4: Ten Largest Sources of the Foreign-Born by County New York Metropolitan Region, 2000|author=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|year=2005|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/nny_table_5_4.pdf|access-date=March 26, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614001800/http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/nny_table_5_4.pdf|archive-date=June 14, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last = Semple |first = Kirk |date = December 18, 2013 |title = Immigration Remakes and Sustains City, a Report Concludes |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/nyregion/chinese-diaspora-transforms-new-yorks-immigrant-population-report-finds.html |access-date = December 18, 2013 }}</ref> Queens has the largest [[Asian American]] and Andean populations in the United States, and is also the most ethnically and linguistically diverse urban area in the world.<ref name=QueensMostDiverseWorld3>{{cite web |url = https://www.businessinsider.com/queens-languages-map-2017-2 |author = Lubin, Gus |date = February 15, 2017 |title = Queens Has More Languages Than Anywhere in the World – Here's Where They're Found |work = Business Insider |access-date = January 4, 2023 }}</ref><ref name="QueensMostDiverseWorld2">{{cite web |first = Andrew |last = Weber |date = April 30, 2013 |title = Queens |url = http://www.newyork.com/articles/neighborhoods/queens-72876/ |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150513065643/http://www.newyork.com/articles/neighborhoods/queens-72876/ |archive-date = May 13, 2015 |access-date = March 20, 2016 |publisher = NewYork.com }}</ref>
In 2005, the median income among black households in [[Queens]] was almost $52,000 a year, surpassing that of whites. No other county in the country with a population over 65,000 can make that claim.<ref>{{cite news|title=Black Incomes Surpass Whites in Queens|author=The New York Times|date=2006-10-01|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/nyregion/01census.html?ref=nyregion|accessdate=2006-10-01}}</ref>


The metropolitan area is home to 20% of the nation's [[Indians in the New York City metropolitan region|Indian Americans]] and at least 20 [[Little India (location)|Little India]] enclaves, and 15% of all [[Korean Americans in New York City|Korean Americans]] and four [[Koreatown, Manhattan|Koreatowns]];<ref name=NYCAmericanCommunitySurvey>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/|title=Explore Census Data|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=October 31, 2023}}</ref> the largest [[Asian Indian]] population in the Western Hemisphere; the largest Russian American,<ref name="U.S. Department of Homeland Security" /> Italian American, and African American populations; the largest [[Dominican American]], [[Puerto Rican migration to New York City|Puerto Rican American]], and South American<ref name="U.S. Department of Homeland Security">{{cite web |title = Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2011 Supplemental Table 2 |url = https://www.dhs.gov/files/statistics/publications/LPR11.shtm |access-date = July 18, 2014 |publisher = [[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]}}</ref> and second-largest overall [[Hispanic and Latino American|Hispanic]] population in the United States, numbering 4.8&nbsp;million;<ref name="HispanicLatino">{{cite web |title = Hispanic or Latino by Type: 2010 |url = http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_SF1_QTP10&prodType=table |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://archive.today/20200212213707/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_SF1_QTP10&prodType=table |archive-date = February 12, 2020 |access-date = October 8, 2014 |publisher = [[United States Census Bureau]] }}</ref> and includes multiple established [[Chinatown]]s within New York City alone.<ref>{{cite news |last = Semple |first = Kirk |date = June 23, 2011 |title = Asian New Yorkers Seek Power to Match Numbers |work = [[The New York Times]] |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/nyregion/asian-new-yorkers-asian-new-yorkers-seek-power-to-match-surging-numbers.html |access-date = September 2, 2012 }}</ref>
===Chinese===
:''See also: [[Chinese American]]s, [[Chinatown, Manhattan]] and [[Flushing, Queens]]''


New York City has the largest [[European American|European]] and [[Non-Hispanic whites|non-Hispanic white]] population of any American city, with 2.7&nbsp;million in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title = American FactFinder—Results |url = http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_12_1YR_DP05&prodType=table |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://archive.today/20200212212412/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_12_1YR_DP05&prodType=table |archive-date = February 12, 2020 |access-date = October 8, 2014 |publisher = [[U.S. Department of Commerce]] }}</ref> The [[European diaspora]] residing in the city is very diverse and many European ethnic groups have formed enclaves in New York.<ref name=BrightonBeachRussianSpeakingEpicenter>{{cite web |url=http://untappedcities.com/2014/01/23/nyc-micro-neighborhoods-little-odessa-brighton-beach-brooklyn/ |title=NYC's Micro Neighborhoods: Little Odesa in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn|author=Brennan Ortiz|year=2014|work=Untapped Cities (online, January 23)|access-date=October 22, 2023}}</ref><ref name=AstoriaNYCGreektown1>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/15/arts/astoria-a-greek-isle-in-the-new-york-city-sea.html|title=Astoria, a Greek Isle in the New York City Sea|author=Richard F. Shepard|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 15, 1991|access-date=October 22, 2023}}</ref><ref name=AstoriaNYCGreektown2>{{cite web|url=https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/18/the-ever-changing-face-of-greektown-in-astoria-queens-video/|title=Astoria: The Ever-Changing Greektown of New York|author=Kerry Kolasa-Sikiaridi|publisher=Greek Reporter|date=June 18, 2022|access-date=October 22, 2023}}</ref> More than 12 million [[Europe]]an immigrants were received at [[Ellis Island]] between 1892 and 1954.<ref>{{cite web |last = Jones |first = Charisse |date = September 24, 2008 |title = Ellis Island strives to tell more complete immigration story |url = https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-09-23-ellis-island_N.htm |access-date = July 4, 2014 |work = [[USA Today]] }}</ref>
Like other such districts in American cities, the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan is an ethnic enclave with a large population of Chinese Americans and [[Chinese people|Chinese]] immigrants.


[[Asian Americans in New York City]], according to the 2010 census, number more than one million, greater than the combined totals of [[San Francisco]] and [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite news |last = Semple |first = Kirk |date = June 23, 2011 |title = Asian New Yorkers Seek Power to Match Numbers |work = [[The New York Times]] |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/nyregion/asian-new-yorkers-asian-new-yorkers-seek-power-to-match-surging-numbers.html |access-date = July 5, 2011 |quote = 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 [[kaleidoscope|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. }}</ref> New York contains the highest total Asian population of any U.S. city proper.<ref>{{cite web |title = Asian American Statistics |url = http://www.ameredia.com/resources/demographics/asian_american.html |access-date = July 5, 2011 |publisher = Améredia Incorporated }}</ref> New York has the largest [[Chinese people in New York City|Chinese]] population of any city outside Asia,<ref name="NYCLargestChinesePopulation">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/nyregion/in-new-york-indictment-of-officer-peter-liang-divides-chinese-americans.html|title=Indictment of New York Officer Divides Chinese-Americans|author=Vivian Yee|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 22, 2015|access-date=November 17, 2023|quote=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.}}</ref> and the [[Chinatown, Manhattan|Manhattan's Chinatown]] is the [[Chinese people in New York City|highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere]],<ref name="fact-sheet">* {{cite web |url = http://www.explorechinatown.com/PDF/FactSheet.pdf |title = Chinatown New York City Fact Sheet |publisher = www.explorechinatown.com |access-date = August 28, 2022 }}
By the 1980s, it had surpassed [[Chinatown, San Francisco, California|San Francisco's Chinatown]] to become the largest enclave of Chinese residents in the Western hemisphere, but in the last few years it too has been outgrown by the lesser-known but larger New York City Chinatown community in nearby [[Flushing, Queens]].
* {{cite web |url = http://www.ny.com/articles/chinatown.html |title = The History of New York's Chinatown |first = Sarah |last = Waxman |publisher = Mediabridge Infosystems, Inc |access-date = August 28, 2022 |quote = 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. }}
* {{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NagJFMxtkAcC&q=Flushing+Chinatown+Little+Taiwan&pg=PA104 |title = Still the golden door: the Third ...&nbsp;– Google Books |first = David M. |last = Reimers |access-date = August 28, 2022 |isbn = 9780231076814 |year = 1992 |publisher = Columbia University Press }}
* {{cite web |url = http://geographyplanning.buffalostate.edu/MSG%202002/13_McGlinn.pdf |title = Beyond Chinatown: Dual immigration and the Chinese population of metropolitan New York City, 2000, Page 4 |author = Lawrence A. McGlinn, Department of Geography SUNY-New Paltz |publisher = Middle States Geographer, 2002, 35: 110–119, Journal of the Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers |access-date = August 28, 2022 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121029075400/http://geographyplanning.buffalostate.edu/MSG%202002/13_McGlinn.pdf |archive-date = October 29, 2012 }}
* {{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NagJFMxtkAcC&q=Flushing+Chinatown+Little+Taiwan&pg=PA104 |title = Still the golden door: the Third ...&nbsp;– Google Books |first = David M. |last = Reimers |access-date = August 28, 2022 |isbn = 9780231076814 |year = 1992 |publisher = Columbia University Press }}</ref> while Queens is home to the largest [[Tibetan people|Tibetan]] population outside Asia.<ref name="UnreachedNY">{{cite web |date = July 17, 2012 |title = Most Significant Unreached People Group Communities in Metro NY |url = http://www.globalgates.info/church-plant-needs-among-unreached/ |access-date = October 27, 2014 |publisher = GLOBAL GATES |archive-date = October 27, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141027192509/http://www.globalgates.info/church-plant-needs-among-unreached/ |url-status = dead }}</ref> As of 2023, [[Chinese emigration|illegal Chinese immigration]] to [[Chinese people in New York City|New York City]], especially to [[Chinatowns in Queens#Flushing Chinatown|Queens]] and its [[Flushing, Queens#Cultural enclaves|Flushing Chinatown]], has accelerated.<ref name=NYCPrimaryChineseDestination>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/us/politics/china-migrants-us-border.html|title=Growing Numbers of Chinese Migrants Are Crossing the Southern Border|author=Eileen Sullivan|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 24, 2023|access-date=November 24, 2023|quote=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.}}</ref> [[Arab Americans]] number over 160,000 in New York City,<ref>{{cite web |title = A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City |url = http://www.allied-media.com/Arab-American/NY-Arabs.htm |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141108212113/http://www.allied-media.com/Arab-American/NY-Arabs.htm |archive-date = November 8, 2014 |access-date = October 9, 2014 |publisher = Allied Media Corp }}</ref> with the highest concentration in Brooklyn. [[Demographics of Central Asia|Central Asians]], primarily [[Uzbek American]]s, are a rapidly growing segment of the city's non-Hispanic White population.<ref>{{cite web |title = Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2013 Lawful Permanent Residents Supplemental Table 2 |url = https://www.dhs.gov/yearbook-immigration-statistics-2013-lawful-permanent-residents |access-date = July 19, 2014 |publisher = [[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]] }}</ref>


New York is also home to the highest [[Jews in New York City|Jewish population]] of any city in the world, numbering 1.6 million in 2022, more than [[Tel Aviv]] and [[Jerusalem]] combined.<ref>{{cite web |title=Transcript: Mayor Eric Adams Discusses Coordinated Efforts That Stopped Potential Attack on Jewish Community |url=https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/855-22/transcript-mayor-eric-adams-coordinated-efforts-stopped-potential-attack-jewish |publisher=www.nyc.gov |date=21 November 2022}}</ref> In the borough of [[Brooklyn]], an estimated 1 in 4 residents is Jewish.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Danailova |first1=Hilary |title=Brooklyn, the Most Jewish Spot on Earth |url=https://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2018/01/11/brooklyn-jewish-spot-earth/ |work=[[Hadassah Magazine]] |date=January 2018}}</ref>
*[[Chinatown, Manhattan]], New York
*[[Flushing, Queens]], New York
*[[Sunset Park, Brooklyn]], New York


Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, and Brazil, are the top source countries from [[South America]] for immigrants to the New York City region; the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago in the [[Caribbeans in New York City|Caribbean]]; Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa from [[Africa]]; and El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala in [[Central America]].<ref>{{cite web |title = Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Leading Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) of Residence and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2013 |url = https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2013/LPR/immsuptable2d.xls |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140712214124/https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2013/LPR/immsuptable2d.xls |access-date = March 6, 2015 |archive-date = July 12, 2014 |publisher = [[United States Department of Homeland Security]] |url-status = dead }}</ref> Amidst a resurgence of [[Puerto Rican migration to New York City]], this population had increased to approximately 1.5&nbsp;million in the metropolitan area {{As of|2016|lc=y}}.<ref name=PuertoRicansNYC>{{cite web|url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/16_1YR/S0201/330M300US408/popgroup~402|title=Selected Population Profile in the United States, 2016 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=October 22, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200214002020/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/16_1YR/S0201/330M300US408/popgroup~402|archive-date=February 14, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>
===German===
:''See also: [[German American]]s''


Since 2010, [[Little Australia]] has emerged and is growing rapidly, representing the [[Australasia]]n presence in [[Nolita, Manhattan]].<ref name="LittleAustraliaNYC">{{cite web |first = Shaun |last = Busuttil |date = November 3, 2016 |title = G-day! Welcome to Little Australia in New York City |url = https://karryon.com.au/lifestyle/travel-inspiration/crikey-welcome-to-little-australia-in-new-york-city/ |access-date = May 23, 2019 |publisher = KarryOn |quote = In Little Australia, Australian-owned cafes are popping up all over the place (such as Two Hands), joining other Australian-owned businesses (such as nightclubs and art galleries) as part of a growing green and gold contingent in NYC. Indeed, walking in this neighbourhood, the odds of your hearing a fellow Aussie ordering a coffee or just kicking back and chatting are high—very high—so much so that if you're keen to meet other Aussies whilst taking your own bite out of the Big Apple, then this is the place to throw that Australian accent around like it's going out of fashion! }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |first = Elle |last = McLogan |date = October 3, 2017 |access-date = November 12, 2021 |title = Why Are There So Many Australians in New York? |url = https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/10/03/little-australia/ |publisher = [[CBS Television Stations]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first = Emma |last = Reynolds |date = July 30, 2018 |title = Australia's secret weapon is quietly changing New York |url = https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/australias-secret-weapon-is-quietly-changing-new-york/news-story/c9d562e08881824b60ea58d8242f79da |access-date = June 4, 2019 |publisher = [[news.com.au]] |quote = THERE'S a quiet revolution taking place across the Big Apple, and it all stems from Down Under. }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first = Siobhan |last = Gunner |title = The Australian Cafés Taking Over The NYC Breakfast Scene |url = https://www.justopenednewyork.com/australian-cafes-taking-nyc-breakfast-scene |access-date = June 4, 2019 |publisher = Just Opened New York |archive-date = June 3, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190603030121/https://www.justopenednewyork.com/australian-cafes-taking-nyc-breakfast-scene/ |url-status = dead }}</ref> In 2011, there were an estimated 20,000 Australian residents of New York City, nearly quadruple the 5,537 in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |first = Saxon |last = Baird |title = What's The Deal With All These Australians In NYC? |url = http://gothamist.com/2014/06/09/australians_everywhere.php |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304144518/http://gothamist.com/2014/06/09/australians_everywhere.php |date = June 9, 2014 |archive-date = March 4, 2016 |access-date = November 12, 2021 |publisher = [[Gothamist]] |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first = Tim |last = Forster |title = Why Are So Many Australians Working in American Coffee? |url = https://www.eater.com/2018/9/17/17856164/australian-coffee-cafe-trend-america-flat-whites-avocado-toast |date = September 17, 2018 |access-date = November 12, 2021 |work = [[Eater (website)|Eater]] }}</ref> [[Qantas Airways]] of Australia and [[Air New Zealand]] have been planning for [[long-haul flight]]s from New York to [[Sydney]] and [[Auckland]], which would both rank among the longest [[non-stop flight]]s in the world.<ref name=NYCAucklandNonstop>{{cite web |url = https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2022/08/25/qantas-to-launch-nonstop-auckland-jfk-service/ |title = Qantas to launch nonstop Auckland-JFK service |first = Mark |last = Caswell |publisher = Business Traveller |date = August 25, 2022 |accessdate = August 28, 2022 }}</ref>
Extensive German immigration to the United States occurred between 1848 and [[World War I]], during which time nearly 6 million [[Germans]] immigrated to the U.S. The German population became widespread throughout the northern half of the country, especially in the Midwestern states. Today German-Americans are the largest self-reported ethnic group in the United States.


=== Languages ===
[[Carl Schurz]], a refugee from the unsuccessful first [[Revolutions of 1848 in the German states|German democratic revolution of 1848]], served as [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] and as [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Missouri]]. [[Carl Schurz Park]] in Manhattan is named after him.
According to the 2022 [[American Community Survey]], the most commonly spoken languages in New York City by people aged 5 years and over (7,863,226 people):<ref>{{cite web |title=American Community Survey - S1601 - LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME |url=https://data.census.gov/table?t=Language%20Spoken%20at%20Home&g=160XX00US3651000 |website=United States Census Bureau |access-date=28 March 2024 |language=English}}</ref>
* Speak only English: 52%
* Language other than English: 48%
* [[Spanish language|Spanish]]: 23.1%
* Other [[Indo-European languages]]: 12.8%
* [[Languages of Asia|Asian languages]] and Pacific Island languages: 9%
* Other languages: 3.1%


=== Religion ===
The influence of German immigration can still be felt in areas of New York City. The [[Yorkville, Manhattan|Yorkville]] neighborhood on the [[Upper East Side]] of Manhattan was a center of German-American culture. As of the 2000 census 255,536 New Yorkers reported German ancestry.<ref>{{cite news|title=2000 Census|author=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|year=2000|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/mpsfsb7.pdf|accessdate=2007-05-24|format=PDF}}</ref>
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| caption2 = [[Central Synagogue (Manhattan)|Central Synagogue]], a notable [[Reform Judaism|Reform]] [[synagogue]] located at 652 [[Lexington Avenue (Manhattan)|Lexington Avenue]]
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==== Christianity ====
In the middle of the nineteenth century, [[Little Germany, New York|Little Germany]], in what is now termed [[Alphabet City]], was the first non-English speaking urban enclave in the United States.
{{further|St. Patrick's Cathedral (Midtown Manhattan)|Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree|Christmas in New York}}
Largely as a result of Western European [[missionary]] work and [[colonialism]], [[Christianity]] is the largest religion (59% adherent) in New York City,<ref name="NYCReligion1">{{cite web |first = Michael |last = Lipka |url = http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/07/29/major-u-s-metropolitan-areas-differ-in-their-religious-profiles/ |title = Major U.S. metropolitan areas differ in their religious profiles |publisher = [[Pew Research Center]] |date = July 29, 2015 |access-date = July 30, 2015 }}</ref> which is home to the highest number of [[church (building)|churches]] of any city in the world.<ref name=NYCTheCapitaloftheWorld>{{cite book |title = The Epic of New York City: A Narrative History |author = Edward Robb Ellis |date = December 21, 2004 |access-date = January 2, 2023 |publisher = Basic Books |page = 593 |isbn = 9780786714360 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Sx3RDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA594 }}</ref> [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]] is the largest Christian denomination (33%), followed by [[Protestantism]] (23%), and [[List of Christian denominations|other Christian denominations]] (3%). The Roman Catholic population are primarily served by the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York]] and [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn|Diocese of Brooklyn]]. [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Eastern Catholics]] are divided into numerous jurisdictions throughout the city. [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical Protestantism]] is the largest branch of Protestantism in the city (9%), followed by [[Mainline Protestant]]ism (8%), while the converse is usually true for other cities and metropolitan areas.<ref name="NYCReligion2">{{Cite web |title = Religion in America: U.S. Religious Data, Demographics and Statistics |url = https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/ |access-date = July 11, 2020 |website = [[Pew Research Center]]'s Religion & Public Life Project |language = en-US }}</ref> In Evangelicalism, [[Baptists]] are the largest group; in Mainline Protestantism, [[Calvinism|Reformed Protestants]] compose the largest subset. The majority of historically [[Black church|African American churches]] are affiliated with the [[National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.|National Baptist Convention (USA)]] and [[Progressive National Baptist Convention]]. The [[Church of God in Christ]] is one of the largest predominantly Black [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] denominations in the area. Approximately 1% of the population is [[Mormon]]. The [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]] and other Orthodox Christians (mainstream and independent) were the largest [[Eastern Christianity|Eastern Christian]] groups. The [[American Orthodox Catholic Church]] (initially led by [[Aftimios Ofiesh]]) was founded in New York City in 1927.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}


===Irish===
==== Judaism ====
{{main|Irish Americans in New York City}}
{{main|Judaism in New York City|History of the Jews in New York|Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam}}
[[American Jews|Judaism]], the [[Jews in New York City|second-largest religion practiced in New York City]], with upwards of 1.6&nbsp;million adherents as of 2022, represents [[Jewish population by city|the largest Jewish community of any city in the world]], greater than the combined totals of [[Tel Aviv]] and [[Jerusalem]].<ref name=NYCWorldsLargestJewishPopulation>{{cite web |title = Transcript: Mayor Eric Adams Discusses Coordinated Efforts That Stopped Potential Attack on Jewish Community |url = https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/855-22/transcript-mayor-eric-adams-coordinated-efforts-stopped-potential-attack-jewish |access-date = November 24, 2022 |date = November 21, 2022 |publisher = City of New York |quote = New York City is home to 1.6 million Jews, the largest Jewish population of any city in the world. }}</ref> In 2011, a report by the [[UJA-Federation of New York]] found the Jewish population of New York City to stand at 1.1 million.<ref name="UJA 2011 Report">{{cite web |title = Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011 Comprehensive Report |url = http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/bitstream/88435/dsp01w3763682c/1/JCSNY2011_ComprehensiveReport.pdf |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211116155929/https://dataspace.princeton.edu/bitstream/88435/dsp01w3763682c/1/JCSNY2011_ComprehensiveReport.pdf |access-date = August 13, 2014 |archive-date = November 16, 2021 |publisher = [[UJA-Federation of New York]] |url-status = dead }}</ref> Nearly half of the city's Jews live in [[Brooklyn]], which is one-quarter Jewish.<ref name="BrooklynJewish">{{cite news |last = Weichselbaum |first = Simone |date = June 26, 2012 |title = Nearly one in four Brooklyn residents are Jews, new study finds |newspaper = [[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]] |location = New York |url = http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-residents-jews-new-study-finds-article-1.1100080 |url-status = live |access-date = May 30, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180704130656/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-residents-jews-new-study-finds-article-1.1100080 |archive-date = July 4, 2018 }}</ref><ref name=BrookynTheMostJewishSpotOnEarth>{{Cite web |first = Hilary |last = Danailova |date = January 11, 2018 |title = Brooklyn, the Most Jewish Spot on Earth |url = https://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2018/01/11/brooklyn-jewish-spot-earth/ |access-date = July 29, 2020 |website = [[Hadassah Magazine]] |language = en-US }}</ref> In that same study, 16% of Jews in the New York City and the nearby [[Nassau County, New York|Nassau]], [[Suffolk County, New York|Suffolk]], and [[Westchester County|Westchester]] counties identified as ethnically Jewish, as opposed to being religiously Jewish<ref name="UJA 2011 Report"/><ref>{{cite web |first = Josh |last = Nathan-Kazis |date = June 12, 2012 |title = N.Y. Jewish Population Grows to 1.5M: Study |url = http://www.forward.com/articles/157654/ny-jewish-population-grows-to-m-study/ |work = [[The Forward]] |access-date = November 21, 2021 }} See also the original UJA study: {{cite web|title=Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011 Comprehensive Report|url=https://www.ujafedny.org/api/v2/assets/785729/}}</ref> In 2012, the largest Jewish denominations were [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]], [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]], and [[Conservative Judaism]].<ref>{{Cite web |title = A 'staggering' 61% of Jewish kids in New York City area are Orthodox, new study finds |url = http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-study-reveals-ny-jewish-population-increasing-diversifying/ |date = June 13, 2012 |access-date = July 29, 2020 |website = www.timesofisrael.com |publisher = [[The Times of Israel]] |language = en-US }}</ref> The first wave of Jewish migration to New York City occurred the 1650s, consisting of [[Sephardic Jews]] from [[Recife]] who originally sought refuge in [[Dutch Brazil]] following the [[Spanish Inquisition]], and later fled to New York after Portugal retook Recife.<ref name="Warner & Wittner">{{Cite book|jstor=j.ctt14bs976|title=Gatherings In Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration|date=1998|publisher=[[Temple University Press]]|isbn=9781566396134|editor-last=Warner|editor-first=R. Stephen|editor-last2=Wittner|editor-first2=Judith G.}}</ref> The Jewish population in New York City exploded from 80,000 Jews in 1880 to 1.5 million in 1920, as [[Eastern European Jews]] fled pogroms and discrimination.<ref name="Fordham Newsroom">{{Cite news|url=https://news.fordham.edu/inside-fordham-category/faculty-reads/tracing-history-jewish-immigrants-impact-new-york-city/|title=Tracing the History of Jewish Immigrants and Their Impact on New York City|date=2017-12-12|work=Fordham Newsroom|access-date=2018-12-03}}</ref> The Jewish population peaked at 2.2 million in 1940.<ref name="UJA 2011 Report"/> A large portion of the population suburbanized after [[World War II]],<ref name="UJA 2011 Report"/> as a part of the larger trend of [[White flight]]{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}. Still, the 1970s saw the arrival of Jews migrating to New York City from the [[USSR]], [[Syria]], and [[Iran]].<ref name="UJA 2011 Report"/> [[Reform Judaism|Reform Jewish]] communities are prevalent through the area.{{relevant|date=January 2024}} [[770 Eastern Parkway]] is the headquarters of the international [[Chabad Lubavitch]] movement, and is considered an icon, while [[Congregation Emanu-El of New York]] in Manhattan is the largest Reform synagogue in the world.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}{{relevant|date=January 2024}}
The Irish community is one of New York's major ethnic groups and has been a significant proportion of the City's population since the waves of immigration in the late 1800s. New York City's St. Patrick's Day Parade dates to 1762.


==== Islam ====
As a result of the [[Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849)|Irish Potato Famine]], many Irish families were forced to emigrate from the country. By 1854, between 1.5 and 2 million people left Ireland. In the United States, most Irish became city dwellers. With little money, many had to settle in the cities at which their ships made port. By 1850, the Irish made up a quarter of the population in [[Boston]], [[New York City]], [[Philadelphia]], and [[Baltimore]]. The Irish play a significant role in city politics, the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the [[New York City Fire Department]] and [[New York City Police Department|Police Department]]. As of the 2000 census, 420,810 New Yorkers reported Irish ancestry.<ref>{{cite news|title=2000 Census|author=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|year=2000|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/mpsfsb10.pdf|accessdate=2007-05-24|format=PDF}}</ref>
{{main|Islam in New York City}}
[[Islam]] ranks as the third largest religion in New York City, following Christianity and Judaism, with estimates ranging between 600,000 and 1,000,000 observers of Islam, including 10% of the city's public school children.<ref>{{cite news |last1 = Grynbaum |first1 = Michael M. |last2 = Otterman |first2 = Sharon |date = March 4, 2015 |title = New York City Adds 2 Muslim Holy Days to Public School Calendar |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/nyregion/new-york-to-add-two-muslim-holy-days-to-public-school-calendar.html |access-date = March 4, 2015 }}</ref> 22.3% of [[Islam in the United States|American Muslims]] live in New York City, with 1.5 million Muslims in the greater [[New York metropolitan area]], representing the largest metropolitan Muslim population in the [[Western Hemisphere]]<ref>{{Cite web |title = An Impact Report of Muslim Contributions to New York City |url = https://www.ispu.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MAP-NY-Key-Findings-Web.pdf |access-date = May 17, 2021 |website = Institute for Social Policy and Understanding }}</ref>—and the most [[ethnically diverse]] Muslim population of any city in the world.<ref name=NYCMostDiverseMuslimPopulationWorld>{{Cite web |date = February 29, 2016 |title = Muslims in Metro New York (Part 2) – Specific Muslim Group Estimates |url = https://globalgates.info/resources-information/muslims-in-metro-new-york-part-2-specific-muslim-group-estimates/ |access-date = September 16, 2022 |website = Global Gates |language = en-US }}</ref> [[Powers Street Mosque]] in Brooklyn is one of the oldest continuously operating mosques in the U.S., and represents the first Islamic organization in both the city and the state of New York.<ref>{{Cite web |first = Tharik |last = Hussain |title = How America's oldest mosque was built by Muslims from the Baltic |url = https://www.baltictimes.com/how_america___s_oldest_mosque_was_built_by_muslims_from_the_baltic/ |date = May 19, 2016 |access-date = July 29, 2020 |website = www.baltictimes.com |publisher = [[The Baltic Times]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |first = Zuha |last = Siddiqui |date = December 26, 2018 |title = America's Oldest Surviving Mosque Is in Williamsburg |url = https://bedfordandbowery.com/2018/12/americas-oldest-surviving-mosque-is-in-williamsburg/ |access-date = July 29, 2020 |website = Bedford + Bowery |language = en-US }}</ref>


==== Hinduism and other religious affiliations ====
According to a 2006 genetic survey by Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, about one in 50 New Yorkers of European origin carry a distinctive genetic signature on their Y chromosomes inherited from [[Niall of the Nine Hostages]], an Irish high king of the fifth century A.D.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Moore|first=Laoise T.|title=A Y-Chromosome Signature of Hegemony in Gaelic Ireland|journal=The American Journal of Human Genetics|volume=78|issue=2|pages=334–338|month=February | year=2006|url=http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1380239&blobtype=pdf|doi=10.1086/500055|format=}} See also {{cite news|title=If Irish Claim Nobility, Science May Approve|publisher=New York Times|date=2006-01-18|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/science/18irish.html?ex=1149652800&en=2336ca46c937614b&ei=5070|first=Nicholas|last=Wade|accessdate=2006-07-16}}</ref>
{{Further|Hindu Temple Society of North America}}
Following these three largest religious groups in New York City are [[Hinduism]], [[Buddhism]], [[Sikhism]], [[Zoroastrianism]], and a variety of other religions. As of 2023, 24% of Greater New Yorkers identified with no organized religious affiliation, including 4% [[Atheist]].<ref name=NYCReligion3>{{cite web |url = https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/metro-area/new-york-city-metro-area/ |title = Religious composition of adults in the New York City metropolitan area |publisher = [[Pew Research Center]] |access-date = February 1, 2023 }}</ref>


=== Wealth and income disparity ===
*[[Woodlawn, Bronx]], New York
New York City, like other large cities, has a high degree of [[income disparity]], as indicated by its [[Gini coefficient]] of 0.55 as of 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |last = Honan |first = Katie |date = September 11, 2019 |title = New York City's Income-Inequality Gap Hasn't Changed, Report Says |language = en-US |work = [[The Wall Street Journal]] |url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-citys-income-inequality-gap-hasnt-changed-report-says-11568174460 |access-date = October 27, 2020 |issn = 0099-9660 }}</ref> In the first quarter of 2014,{{update inline|date=July 2023}} the average weekly wage in New York County (Manhattan) was $2,749, representing the highest total among large counties in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |date = September 18, 2014 |title = County Employment and Wages Summary |url = http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewqtr.nr0.htm |access-date = September 21, 2014 |publisher = [[Bureau of Labor Statistics]], [[U.S. Department of Labor]] }}</ref> In 2022, New York City was home to the highest number of [[billionaire]]s of any city in the world, with a total of 107.<ref name=NYCMostBillionaires1>McEvoy, Jemima. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2022/04/05/where-the-richest-live-the-cities-with-the-most-billionaires-2022/ "Where The Richest Live: The Cities With The Most Billionaires 2022"], ''[[Forbes]]'', April 5, 2022. Accessed January 30, 2023. "New York City has taken back its crown. With 107 billionaire residents, worth over $640 billion, The Big Apple is home to more three-comma club members than any other city on the planet."</ref> New York also had the highest density of millionaires per capita among major U.S. cities in 2014, at 4.6% of residents.<ref>{{cite web |last = Wallace |first = Gregory |date = August 4, 2014 |title = Want to meet a millionaire? Here's where to go |url = https://money.cnn.com/2014/08/04/luxury/most-millionaires-cities/index.html?iid=HP_LN |access-date = August 4, 2014 |publisher = [[CNN]] }}</ref> New York City is one of the relatively few American cities levying an [[income tax]] (about 3%) on its residents.<ref name="Localities_with_INCOME_tax">{{cite web |last = Moreno |first = Tonya |date = February 2, 2017 |title = U.S. Cities That Levy Income Taxes |url = https://www.thebalance.com/cities-that-levy-income-taxes-3193246 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170308014312/https://www.thebalance.com/cities-that-levy-income-taxes-3193246 |archive-date = March 8, 2017 |access-date = December 20, 2017 |publisher = [[The Balance (website)|The Balance]] |quote = Fourteen states and the District of Columbia allow cities, counties, and municipalities to levy their own separate individual income taxes in addition to state income taxes. }}</ref><ref name="NYCTax">{{cite web |title = Personal Income Tax & Non-resident NYC Employee Payments |url = http://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/taxes/personal-income-tax-and-non-resident-employees.page |access-date = December 19, 2017 |publisher = [[New York City Department of Finance]] |archive-date = August 27, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220827134650/https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/taxes/personal-income-tax-and-non-resident-employees.page |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="NYC_tax_schedule">{{cite web |year = 2016 |title = New York City tax rate schedule |url = https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/nyc_tax_rate_schedule.pdf |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170308234704/https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/nyc_tax_rate_schedule.pdf |archive-date = March 8, 2017 |access-date = December 15, 2017 |publisher = [[New York State Department of Taxation and Finance]] }}</ref> As of 2018, there were 78,676 [[Homelessness in the United States|homeless people]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite news |first = Christopher |last = Brito |date = April 23, 2019 |access-date = November 21, 2021 |title = M&M's. Makeup. Bank receipt. NYC homeless people reveal which items they value the most |work = [[CBS News]] |url = https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeless-in-new-york-city-homeless-essentials-simon-dolsten-chris-bosler/ }}</ref>
*[[Woodside, Queens]], New York
*[[Maspeth, Queens]], New York
*[[Sunnyside, Queens]], New York
*[[North Riverdale, Bronx]]
*[[Riverdale, The Bronx|Riverdale]], [[Bronx]]
*[[Bay Ridge, Brooklyn]]
*[[Marine Park, Brooklyn]]
*[[Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn]]
*[[Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn]]
*[[Belle Harbor, Queens]]
*[[Breezy Point, Queens]]
*[[Rockaway Beach, Queens]]
*[[Roxbury, Queens]]
*[[St. George, Staten Island]]


===Italian===
==See also==
* [[Demographics of the Bronx]]
:''See also: [[Italian-American]]s''
* [[Demographics of Brooklyn]]

* [[Demographics of Manhattan]]
[[Image:USA san gennaro vendors NY.jpg|thumb|230px|Street vendors at the [[Feast of San Gennaro]] in Manhattan's [[Little Italy, Manhattan|Little Italy]].]]
* [[Demographics of Queens]]

* [[Demographics of Staten Island]]
New York City has a large population of Italian Americans, many of whom inhabit ethnic enclaves in [[Brooklyn]], [[the Bronx]], [[Queens]], and [[Staten Island]].
* [[Illegal immigration to New York City|Undocumented immigrants in New York City]]

* [[New York City ethnic enclaves]]
The largest wave of Italian immigration to the United States took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Between 1820 and 1978, 5.3 million Italians immigrated to the United States, including over two million between 1900 and 1910. Only the Irish and Germans immigrated in larger numbers. Italian families first settled in [[Little Italy]]'s neighborhoods, the first and most famous one being the one around Mulberry Street, in Manhattan. This settlement, however, is rapidly becoming part of the adjacent Chinatown as the older Italian residents die and their children move elsewhere. As of the 2000 census, 692,739 New Yorkers reported Italian ancestry, making them the largest European ethnic group in the city.<ref>{{cite news|title=2000 Census|author=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|year=2000|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/mpsfsb11.pdf|accessdate=2007-05-24|format=PDF}}</ref> New York metropolitan area is home to 3,372,512 Italians, which is among the largest concentration in the world after [[Sao Paulo]], [[Buenos Aires]], [[Milan]] and [[Rome]] metropolitan areas.

Italian communities in New York hold some widely attended celebrations and parades, including feasts for regional patron saints, most notably [[Feast of San Gennaro]] ([[September 19]]) by those claiming [[Naples|Neapolitan]] heritage, and [[Santa Rosalia]] ([[September 4]]) by [[Sicily|Sicilians]]. [[Columbus Day]] is also widely celebrated in these communities.

*[[Arthur Avenue (Bronx)]], New York
*[[Bensonhurst, Brooklyn]], New York
*[[Morris Park, Bronx]], New York
*[[Cobble Hill, Brooklyn]], New York
*[[Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn]], New York
*[[Mulberry Street (Manhattan)|Mulberry Street]], Manhattan (New York's [[Little Italy]])
*Pleasant Avenue, [[East Harlem]], Manhattan, New York
*[[Howard Beach, Queens]], New York
*[[Staten Island]], New York

===Jewish===
:''See also: [[American Jews]]''

[[Image:Abolish child slavery.jpg|thumb|230px|Two girls wearing banners with the slogan "ABOLISH CHILD SLAVERY!!" in English and [[Yiddish]]. Probably taken during the May 1st, 1909 New York labor parade.]]

The [[New York metropolitan area]] is home to the largest Jewish population in the world outside [[Israel]]. New York City's Jewish population in 2001 was approximately 1.97 million, 1.4 million more than in [[Jerusalem]] but 600,000 fewer than in Israel's largest metropolitan area, denoted as Gush Dan. However, the city of Tel Aviv proper (within municipal limits) has a smaller population than the Jewish population of New York City proper, making New York City's the largest Jewish community in the world.<ref>{{cite news|title=World Jewish Population, Analysis by City|author=Simpletoremember.com|year=2001|url=http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/world-jewish-population.htm#_Toc26172080|accessdate=2006-06-22}}</ref> In 2002, an estimated 972,000 [[Ashkenazic]] Jews lived in New York City and constituted about 12% of the city's population. New York City is also home to the world headquarters of the Hasidic [[Chabad-Lubavitch]] group and the [[Bobov (Hasidic dynasty)|Bobover]] and [[Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)|Satmar]] branches of [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidism]], ultra-Orthodox sects of Judaism.

The Jewish presence in New York City dates to the 1600s, when a Jewish community relocated from [[Recife]] in Brazil, seeking freedom of worship. Major immigration of Jews to New York began in the 1880s, with the increase of [[antisemitic actions]] in Central and Eastern Europe. The number of Jews in New York City soared throughout the beginning of the 20th century and reached a peak of 2 million in the 1950s, when Jews constituted one-quarter of the city's population. New York City's Jewish population then began to decline because of low fertility rates and migration to [[suburb]]s and other states, particularly [[California]] and [[Florida]]. A new wave of [[Ashkenazi]] and [[Bukharian Jew]]ish immigrants from the former [[Soviet Union]] began arriving in the 1980s and 1990s. Sephardic Jews including Syrian and other Jews of non-European origin have also lived in New York City since the late 19th century. Many Jews, including the newer immigrants, have settled in Queens, south Brooklyn, and the Bronx, where at present most live in middle-class neighborhoods such as Riverdale.

Nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants settled mainly in the tenement houses of the [[Lower East Side]] of Manhattan. Today New York City's Jewish population is dispersed among all the boroughs; Brooklyn's Jewish population in 2003 was estimated as 456,000, and Manhattan's as 243,000.

While three-quarters of [[New York Jews]] do not consider themselves religiously observant, the [[Orthodox Jew|Orthodox]] community is rapidly growing due to the high birthrates of Hasidic sects, while the numbers of Conservative and Reform Jews are declining.

Like the Irish, the Jewish community has played an important role in New York City's politics; Jewish voters traditionally vote in large numbers and have often supported politically liberal policies.

===Polish===
Polish immigration to New York City began at the end of the 19th century. In the 1980s, as a result of the Polish government's crackdown on the burgeoning Solidarnosc labor and political movement, Polish migration to the U.S. swelled. [[Polish-American]]s and Polish immigrants in the city generally reside in [[Brooklyn]] ([[Greenpoint, Brooklyn|Greenpoint]] and [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn|Williamsburg]])*[[Ridgewood, Queens]], New York & *[[Maspeth, Queens]] . New York The combined neighborhood is sometimes referred to as "[[Little Poland, Brooklyn|Little Poland]]" because of its large population of primarily [[working-class]] Polish immigrants, reportedly the second largest concentration in the [[United States]], after [[Chicago]]. As of the 2000 census, 213,447 New Yorkers reported Polish ancestry.<ref>{{cite news|title=2000 Census|author=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|year=2000|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/mpsfsb13.pdf|accessdate=2007-05-24|format=PDF}}</ref>

'''Polish-American culture, press'''

New York is home to a number of Polish and Polish-American cultural, community, and scientific institutions, including the [[Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America]] (PIASA) and the [[Polish Cultural Institute]]. Polish-language publications with circulation reaching outside the city include ''[[The Polish Review]]'', an English-language scholarly journal published since 1956 by [[Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America|PIASA]]; ''[[Nowy Dziennik]]'' [http://dziennik.com/www/index.htm], founded in 1971, considered the leading Polish-language daily newspaper in the U.S.; and ''[[Polska Gazeta]]'' [http://www.polskagazeta.com/], a Polish-language daily newspaper with headquarters in Brooklyn. Polish Newspaper call SuperExpress [http://www.seusa.info/nyse/] Superexpres for Nowy Jork, New Jersey & Connecticut first time 1996 come out.

''' USA-Polish TV
'''

DishNetwork

KinoPolska-604

Polsat2-607

ITVN-608

TVN24-609

DirecTV

Polonia-2171

TVinfo-2172

Polskie Radio1-2174

Polskie Radio3-2172

Tele5-2713

===Puerto Rican===
{{further|[[Puerto Rican migration to New York]]}}
[[Image:PR Parade 2005.jpg|thumb|230px|The 2005 National Puerto Rican Parade.]]
New York City has the largest Puerto Rican population outside of Puerto Rico. [[Puerto Rican American|Puerto Ricans]], because of the changing citizenship status of the island's residents, can technically be said to have come to the City first as immigrants and subsequently as migrants. The first group of Puerto Ricans moved to New York in the mid [[19th Century]], when Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony and its people Spanish subjects. The following wave of Puerto Ricans to move to New York did so after the [[Spanish-American War]] of 1898 made Puerto Rico a U.S. possession and after the [[Jones-Shafroth Act]] of 1917 gave Puerto Ricans [[U.S. citizenship]], which allows travel without the need of a passport between the island and the United States mainland. The largest wave of migration came in the 1950s, in what became known as "The Great Migration"; as a result, more than a million Puerto Ricans once called New York City home. Presently the Puerto Rican population is around 800,000.

===Romanian===
:''See also: [[Romanian American]]s''

The Romanian community of New York City is the largest such community in [[North America]]. The [[United States Census, 2000|2000 Census]] reported 161,900 Romanians were living in New York City. They are mainly concentrated in [[The Bronx]], as well as in parts of [[Manhattan]] and [[Staten Island]]. The [[Romanian Day Festival]], for which the City closes a section of Broadway, demonstrates the strong sense of community of Romanians living in New York.

===South Asian===
{{see also|Indian American}}
According to 2005 American Community Survey estimates, New York City is home to approximately 275,000 people from the [[Indian subcontinent]], which includes the countries of [[India]] (226,587), [[Pakistan]] (34,310), [[Bangladesh]] (18,825), and [[Sri Lanka]] (1,094). South Asians constitute 3.5% of New York City's population.<ref>{{cite news|title=Census Profile:New York City's Indian American Population|author=Asian American Federation of New York|year=2004|url=http://www.aafny.org/cic/briefs/indianamer.pdf|accessdate=2007-03-28|format=PDF}} {{cite news|title=Census Profile:New York City's Pakistani American Population|author=Asian American Federation of New York|year=2004|url=http://www.aafny.org/cic/briefs/pakistani.pdf|accessdate=2007-04-21|format=PDF}}</ref> A majority of the South Asian residents are concentrated in Queens neighborhoods such as Jackson Heights, Kew Gardens, and Elmhurst. In the borough of Queens, the South Asian population is approximately 170,000, where they constitute 8% of the population.


==References==
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==See also==
*[[Demographics of The Bronx]]
*[[Demographics of Brooklyn]]
*[[Demographics of Manhattan]]
*[[Demographics of Queens]]
*[[Demographics of Staten Island]]
*[[Crime in New York City]]


==External links==
==External links==
* New York City Department of City Planning Population Division [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/census/popdiv.shtml]
* [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/census/popdiv.shtml New York City Department of City Planning Population Division]
* New York City Department of City Planning Census Fact Finder [http://gis.nyc.gov/dcp/pa/address.jsp]
*[http://www.jewishtraveladvisor.com/jewish-community-list.php?ac=New%20York%20city Jewish communities in New York City]
* '''The Newest New Yorkers, 2000''', by the NYC Population Division, uses Census information and other federal and local data to take a detailed look at the origins, spatial settlement, and other characteristics of the foreign-born population in New York City and in the larger metropolitan region.[http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/census/nny.shtml]
* http://www.muninetguide.com/index.php


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Demographics of New York City
Population pyramid of New York City in 2021
Population8,260,000 (2023 est.)

New York City is a large and ethnically diverse metropolis.[1] It is the largest city in the United States with a long history of international immigration. The New York region continues to be by far the leading metropolitan gateway for legal immigrants admitted into the United States.[2][3][4][5] The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. by both population and urban area. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York City is one of the world's most populous megacities.[6]

The city and its metropolitan area are the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. New York City enforces a right-to-shelter law guaranteeing shelter to anyone who needs shelter, regardless of their immigration status;[7] and the city is home to more than 3.2 million residents born outside the U.S., the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world as of 2016.[8]

Throughout its history, New York City has been a major point of entry for immigrants; the term "melting pot" was coined to describe densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the Lower East Side. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York,[9][10][11][12] making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.[11][13][14] English remains the most widely spoken language, although there are areas in the outer boroughs in which up to 25% of people speak English as an alternate language, and/or have limited or no English language fluency. English is least spoken in neighborhoods such as Flushing, Sunset Park, and Corona.

New York's two key demographic features are its density and diversity. The city has an extremely high population density of 26,403 people per square mile (10,194/km2), about 10,000 more people per square mile than the next densest large American city, San Francisco.[15] Manhattan's population density is 66,940 people per square mile (25,846/km2).[16] The city has a long tradition of attracting international immigration and Americans seeking careers in certain sectors. As of 2006, New York City has ranked number one for seven consecutive years as the city most U.S. residents would most like to live in or near.[17]

Demographic profile[edit]

Population growth (blue) and population loss (red) from 1990 to 2000. (Click on image to see full key and data.)
Historical population
YearPop.±%
16984,937—    
17125,840+18.3%
17237,248+24.1%
173710,664+47.1%
174611,717+9.9%
175613,046+11.3%
177121,863+67.6%
179033,131+51.5%
180060,515+82.7%
181096,373+59.3%
1820123,706+28.4%
1830202,589+63.8%
1840312,710+54.4%
1850515,547+64.9%
1860813,669+57.8%
1870942,292+15.8%
18801,206,299+28.0%
18901,515,301+25.6%
19003,437,202+126.8%
19104,766,883+38.7%
19205,620,048+17.9%
19306,930,446+23.3%
19407,454,995+7.6%
19507,891,957+5.9%
19607,781,984−1.4%
19707,894,862+1.5%
19807,071,639−10.4%
19907,322,564+3.5%
20008,008,288+9.4%
20108,175,133+2.1%
20208,804,190+7.7%
2023 est.8,260,000−6.2%
1880 & 1890 figures include part of the Bronx. Beginning with 1900, figures are for consolidated city of five boroughs. For the same area before 1900, see #Historical population data, below. Sources: 1698–1771,[18] 1790–1990,[19] 2000 and 2010 Censuses,[20] 2020 Census,[21] and 2023 estimate[22]

New York City is the most populous city in the United States, with an estimated 8,804,190 people living in the city, according to the 2020 U.S. Census[21] (up from 8,175,133 in 2010; 8.0 million in 2000; and 7.3 million in 1990).[20] This amounts to about 44% of New York State's population and a similar percentage of the metropolitan regional population. New York's two key demographic features are its population density and cultural diversity. The city's population density of 29,091.3 people per square mile (11,232/km2), makes it the densest of any American municipality with a population above 100,000.[23] Manhattan's population density is 74,781 people per square mile (28,872/km2), highest of any county in the United States.[24][16]

New York City is multicultural. About 36% of the city's population is foreign-born,[25] one of the highest among US cities. The eleven nations constituting the largest sources of modern immigration to New York City are the Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Guyana, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Russia and El Salvador.[26]

New York is the largest city in the United States, with the city proper's population more than double the next largest city, Los Angeles (or roughly equivalent to the combined populations of Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston, the United States' second, third, and fourth most populous cities respectively). In 2006, demographers estimated New York's population would reach 9.1 million by 2030.[27] In 2000 the reported life expectancy of New Yorkers was above the national average. Life expectancy for females born in 2009 in New York City is 80.2 years and for males is 74.5 years.[28]

Households[edit]

The 2000 census counted 2,021,588 households with a median income of $38,293. 30% of households had children under the age of 18, and 37% were married couples living together. 19% had a single female householder, and 39% were non-families. 32% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10% were single residents 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.59 persons, and the average family size was 3.32.

% population by age range
Age range 2000 Census
Under the age of 18 24%
Between 18 and 24 10%
Between 25 and 44 33%
Between 45 and 64 21%
Aged 65 or older 12%

The median age in New York City in 2000 was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86 males.

During the 2000s, Manhattan experienced a "baby boom" unique among U.S. cities. Between 2000 and 2007, the number of children under age 5 living in Manhattan grew by more than 32%.[29] The increase is driven mostly by affluent white families with median household incomes over $300,000.

Income[edit]

Overall, nominal household income in New York City is characterized by large variations. This phenomenon is especially true of Manhattan, which in 2005 was home to the highest incomes U.S. census tract, with a household income of $188,697, as well as the lowest, where household income was $9,320.[30] The disparity is driven in part by wage growth in high income brackets. In 2006 the average weekly wage in Manhattan was $1,453, the highest among the largest counties in the United States.[31] Wages in Manhattan were the fastest growing among the nation's 10 largest counties.[31] Among young adults in New York who work full-time, women now earn more money than men — approximately $5,000 more in 2005.[32]

New York City's borough of Manhattan is the highest nominal income county in the United States. In particular, ZIP code 10021 on Manhattan's Upper East Side, with more than 100,000 inhabitants and a per capita income of over $90,000, has one of the largest concentrations of income in the United States. The other boroughs, especially Queens and Staten Island, have large middle-class populations. New York City's per capita income in 2000 was $22,402; men and women had a median income of $37,435 and $32,949 respectively. 21.2% of the population and 18.5% of families had incomes below the federal poverty line; 30.0% of this group were under the age of 18 and 17.8% were 65 and older. Of Forbes Magazine's 400 richest American billionaires, 70 live in New York City.[33] Former mayor and Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is one of the nation's richest men. As of 2009 New York has regained the number one spot as the city with most billionaires (55), after losing out to Moscow in 2008.

New York City has a high degree of income variation. In 2005 the median household income in the highest census tract was reported to be $188,697, while in the lowest it was $9,320.[34] The variance is driven by wage growth in high income brackets, while wages have stagnated for middle and lower income brackets. In 2006 the average weekly wage in Manhattan was $1,453, the highest and fastest growing among the largest counties in the United States.[31] The borough is also experiencing a "baby boom" among the wealthy that is unique among U.S. cities. Since 2000, the number of children under age 5 living in Manhattan has grown by more than 32%.[35]

In 2000, about 3 out of every 10 New York City housing units were owner-occupied, compared to about 2 owner-occupied units out of every 3 units in the U.S. as a whole.[36] Rental vacancy is usually between 3% and 4.5%, well below the 5% threshold defined to be a housing emergency, justifying the continuation of rent control and rent stabilization. About 33% of rental units fall under rent stabilization, according to which increases are adjudicated periodically by city agencies. Rent control covers only a very small number of rental units.[37] Some critics point to New York City's strict zoning and other regulations as partial causes for the housing shortage, but during the city's decline in population from the 1960s through the 1980s, a large number of apartment buildings suffered suspected arson fires or were abandoned by their owners. Once the population trend was reversed, with rising prospects for rentals and sales, new construction has resumed, but generally for purchasers in higher income brackets.

Area Median
House-
hold
Income

Mean
House-
hold
Income

Percent-
age in
Poverty
The Bronx $34,156 $46,298 27.1%
Brooklyn $41,406 $60,020 21.9%
Manhattan $64,217 $121,549 17.6%
Queens $53,171 $67,027 12.0%
Staten Island $66,985 $81,498 9.8%
New York City $48,631 $75,809 18.5%
New York State $53,514 $77,865 13.7%
United States $50,140 $69,193 13.0%

Boroughs[edit]

  1. Manhattan (New York County)
  2. Brooklyn (Kings County)
  3. Queens (Queens County)
  4. The Bronx (Bronx County)
  5. Staten Island (Richmond County)
Note: JFK and LGA airports are both located in Queens (marked by brown).

The Boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that compose New York City. The boroughs are the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York: The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens is Queens County, and Staten Island is Richmond County.

All five boroughs came into existence with the creation of modern New York City in 1898, when New York County (then including the Bronx), Kings County, Richmond County, and part of Queens County were consolidated within one municipal government under a new city charter. All former municipalities within the newly consolidated city were dissolved.

New York City was originally confined to Manhattan Island and the smaller surrounding islands that formed New York County. As the city grew northward, it began annexing areas on the mainland, absorbing territory from Westchester County into New York County in 1874 (West Bronx) and 1895 (East Bronx). During the 1898 consolidation, this territory was organized as the Borough of the Bronx, though still part of New York County. In 1914, Bronx County was split off from New York County so that each borough was then coterminous with a county.

When the western part of Queens County was consolidated with New York City in 1898, that area became the Borough of Queens. In 1899, the remaining eastern section of Queens County was split off to form Nassau County on Long Island, thereafter making the borough and county of Queens coextensive with each other.
Jurisdiction Population Land area Density of population GDP
Borough County Census
(2020)
square
miles
square
km
people/
sq. mile
people/
sq. km
billions
(2022 US$) 2
Bronx
1,472,654 42.2 109.2 34,920 13,482 $43.7
Kings
2,736,074 69.4 179.7 39,438 15,227 $107.3
New York
1,694,251 22.7 58.7 74,781 28,872 $781.0
Queens
2,405,464 108.7 281.6 22,125 8,542 $103.3
Richmond
495,747 57.5 149.0 8,618 3,327 $17.5
8,804,190 300.5 778.2 29,303 11,314 $1,052.8
20,201,249 47,123.6 122,049.5 429 166 $1,763.5
Sources:[38][39][40][41] and see individual borough articles.

Projections[edit]

Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) are a geographic unit created to help project populations at a small area level, as part of the long-term sustainability plan for the city known as PlaNYC, covering the years 2000–2030. The minimum population for an NTA is 15,000 people, a level seen as a useful summary level which can be used both with the 2010 Census and the American Community Survey.[42]

New York has ranked first in population among American cities since the first census in 1790. New York will maintain this position for the foreseeable future, although there are varying forecasts on how much the population will increase. The most realistic population projections from the Department of City Planning anticipate a 1.1 million increase by 2030, bringing the city's population total to 9.1 million.[citation needed]

While the city's projected 2030 population will be a new high, only two boroughs, Staten Island and Queens have reached their population peak every year for the last 5 years. The study projects that by 2030, Queens will have 2.57 million people and Staten Island 552,000. Manhattan, with 1.83 million, Bronx with 1.46 million and Brooklyn with 2.72 million, will still be below their population peaks.[43]

Disputed 2010 Census data[edit]

On March 27, 2011, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the city would file a formal challenge to the Census results, as a result of alleged undercounting in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn.[44] The mayor has asserted that the numbers for Queens and Brooklyn, the two most populous boroughs, are implausible.[45] According to the Census, they grew by only 0.1% and 1.6%, respectively, while the other boroughs grew by between 3% and 5%. In addition, the Mayor claims, the census showed improbably high amounts of vacant housing in vital neighborhoods such as Jackson Heights, Queens.

Race and ethnicity[edit]

Map of racial distribution in New York, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, or Other (yellow)
Chinatown, Manhattan, is the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere.[46]
Brooklyn's Jewish community is the largest in the United States, with approximately 600,000 individuals.[47]

The city's population in 2020 was 30.9% White (non-Hispanic), 28.3% Hispanic or Latino, 20.2% Black or African American (non-Hispanic), 15.6% Asian, and 0.2% Native American (non-Hispanic). A total of 3.4% of the non-Hispanic population identified with more than one race and 1.4% as some other race.[48]

New York City, New York – Racial and ethnic composition
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.
Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000[49] Pop 2010[50] Pop 2020[48] % 2000 % 2010 % 2020
White (NH) 2,801,267 2,722,904 2,719,856 34.98% 33.31% 30.89%
Black or African American (NH) 1,962,154 1,861,295 1,776,891 24.50% 22.77% 20.18%
Native American or Alaska Native (NH) 17,321 17,427 19,146 0.22% 0.21% 0.22%
Asian (NH) 780,229 1,028,119 1,373,502 9.74% 12.58% 15.60%
Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian (NH) 2,829 2,795 3,302 0.04% 0.03% 0.04%
Some other race (NH) 58,775 57,841 121,184 0.73% 0.71% 1.38%
Two or more races or Multiracial (NH) 225,149 148,676 299,959 2.81% 1.82% 3.41%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,160,554 2,336,076 2,490,350 26.98% 28.58% 28.29%
Total 8,008,278 8,175,133 8,804,190 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%


In 2013, approximately 36% of the city's population is foreign born,[51] and more than half of all children are born to mothers who are immigrants. Between 1990 and 2000 the city admitted 1,224,524 immigrants.[52] Demographers and city officials have observed that immigration to New York City has been slowing since 1997. This is mostly due to more and more immigrants choosing directly to locate to the city's suburbs and then commute to the city or work in many of its booming edge cities such as Fort Lee, NJ, Hempstead, NY, Morristown, NJ, Stamford, CT, White Plains, NY, and others. Despite the slowdown in immigration the city's overall immigrant population has continued to increase and in 2006 it numbered 3.038 million (37.0%) up from 2.871 million (35.9%) in 2000.[53][54] By 2013, the population of foreign-born individuals living in New York City had increased to 3.07 million, and as a percentage of total population, was the highest it had been in the past 100 years.[55]

Throughout its history, New York City has been a principal port of entry for immigration to the United States. [56][25] These immigrants often form ethnic enclaves, neighborhoods dominated by one ethnicity. The city experienced major immigration from Europe in the 19th century and another major wave in the early 20th century, being admitted into the United States of America primarily through Ellis Island. Since the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, and particularly since the 1980s, New York City has seen renewed rates of high immigration. Newer immigrants are from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. 36% of the city's population is foreign-born.[25] Among U.S. cities, this proportion is higher only in Los Angeles and Miami.[16]

In New York, no single country or region of origin dominates.[56] The ten largest sources of foreign-born individuals in the city as of 2011 were the Dominican Republic, China, Mexico, Guyana, Jamaica, Ecuador, Haiti, India, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, and El Salvador.[57][58] Queens has the largest Asian American and Andean populations in the United States, and is also the most ethnically and linguistically diverse urban area in the world.[59][60]

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;[61] the largest Asian Indian population in the Western Hemisphere; the largest Russian American,[62] Italian American, and African American populations; the largest Dominican American, Puerto Rican American, and South American[62] and second-largest overall Hispanic population in the United States, numbering 4.8 million;[63] and includes multiple established Chinatowns within New York City alone.[64]

New York City has the largest European and non-Hispanic white population of any American city, with 2.7 million in 2012.[65] The European diaspora residing in the city is very diverse and many European ethnic groups have formed enclaves in New York.[66][67][68] More than 12 million European immigrants were received at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954.[69]

Asian Americans in New York City, according to the 2010 census, number more than one million, greater than the combined totals of San Francisco and Los Angeles.[70] New York contains the highest total Asian population of any U.S. city proper.[71] New York has the largest Chinese population of any city outside Asia,[72] and the Manhattan's Chinatown is the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere,[46] while Queens is home to the largest Tibetan population outside Asia.[73] As of 2023, illegal Chinese immigration to New York City, especially to Queens and its Flushing Chinatown, has accelerated.[74] Arab Americans number over 160,000 in New York City,[75] with the highest concentration in Brooklyn. Central Asians, primarily Uzbek Americans, are a rapidly growing segment of the city's non-Hispanic White population.[76]

New York is also home to the highest Jewish population of any city in the world, numbering 1.6 million in 2022, more than Tel Aviv and Jerusalem combined.[77] In the borough of Brooklyn, an estimated 1 in 4 residents is Jewish.[78]

Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, and Brazil, are the top source countries from South America for immigrants to the New York City region; the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean; Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa from Africa; and El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala in Central America.[79] Amidst a resurgence of Puerto Rican migration to New York City, this population had increased to approximately 1.5 million in the metropolitan area as of 2016.[80]

Since 2010, Little Australia has emerged and is growing rapidly, representing the Australasian presence in Nolita, Manhattan.[81][82][83][84] In 2011, there were an estimated 20,000 Australian residents of New York City, nearly quadruple the 5,537 in 2005.[85][86] Qantas Airways of Australia and Air New Zealand have been planning for long-haul flights from New York to Sydney and Auckland, which would both rank among the longest non-stop flights in the world.[87]

Languages[edit]

According to the 2022 American Community Survey, the most commonly spoken languages in New York City by people aged 5 years and over (7,863,226 people):[88]

Religion[edit]

Religious affiliation (2014)[89][90]
Christian
59%
Catholic
33%
Protestant
23%
Other Christian
3%
Unaffiliated
24%
Jewish
8%
Muslim
4%
Hindu
2%
Buddhist
1%
Other faiths
1%
Religious affiliations in New York City
The landmark Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, Midtown Manhattan
The Islamic Cultural Center of New York in Upper Manhattan, the first mosque built in New York City
Ganesh Temple in Flushing, Queens, the oldest Hindu temple in the U.S.

Christianity[edit]

Largely as a result of Western European missionary work and colonialism, Christianity is the largest religion (59% adherent) in New York City,[89] which is home to the highest number of churches of any city in the world.[91] Roman Catholicism is the largest Christian denomination (33%), followed by Protestantism (23%), and other Christian denominations (3%). The Roman Catholic population are primarily served by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and Diocese of Brooklyn. Eastern Catholics are divided into numerous jurisdictions throughout the city. Evangelical Protestantism is the largest branch of Protestantism in the city (9%), followed by Mainline Protestantism (8%), while the converse is usually true for other cities and metropolitan areas.[90] In Evangelicalism, Baptists are the largest group; in Mainline Protestantism, Reformed Protestants compose the largest subset. The majority of historically African American churches are affiliated with the National Baptist Convention (USA) and Progressive National Baptist Convention. The Church of God in Christ is one of the largest predominantly Black Pentecostal denominations in the area. Approximately 1% of the population is Mormon. The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and other Orthodox Christians (mainstream and independent) were the largest Eastern Christian groups. The American Orthodox Catholic Church (initially led by Aftimios Ofiesh) was founded in New York City in 1927.[citation needed]

Judaism[edit]

Judaism, the second-largest religion practiced in New York City, with upwards of 1.6 million adherents as of 2022, represents the largest Jewish community of any city in the world, greater than the combined totals of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.[92] In 2011, a report by the UJA-Federation of New York found the Jewish population of New York City to stand at 1.1 million.[93] Nearly half of the city's Jews live in Brooklyn, which is one-quarter Jewish.[94][95] In that same study, 16% of Jews in the New York City and the nearby Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties identified as ethnically Jewish, as opposed to being religiously Jewish[93][96] In 2012, the largest Jewish denominations were Orthodox, Haredi, and Conservative Judaism.[97] The first wave of Jewish migration to New York City occurred the 1650s, consisting of Sephardic Jews from Recife who originally sought refuge in Dutch Brazil following the Spanish Inquisition, and later fled to New York after Portugal retook Recife.[98] The Jewish population in New York City exploded from 80,000 Jews in 1880 to 1.5 million in 1920, as Eastern European Jews fled pogroms and discrimination.[99] The Jewish population peaked at 2.2 million in 1940.[93] A large portion of the population suburbanized after World War II,[93] as a part of the larger trend of White flight[citation needed]. Still, the 1970s saw the arrival of Jews migrating to New York City from the USSR, Syria, and Iran.[93] Reform Jewish communities are prevalent through the area.[relevant?] 770 Eastern Parkway is the headquarters of the international Chabad Lubavitch movement, and is considered an icon, while Congregation Emanu-El of New York in Manhattan is the largest Reform synagogue in the world.[citation needed][relevant?]

Islam[edit]

Islam ranks as the third largest religion in New York City, following Christianity and Judaism, with estimates ranging between 600,000 and 1,000,000 observers of Islam, including 10% of the city's public school children.[100] 22.3% of American Muslims live in New York City, with 1.5 million Muslims in the greater New York metropolitan area, representing the largest metropolitan Muslim population in the Western Hemisphere[101]—and the most ethnically diverse Muslim population of any city in the world.[102] Powers Street Mosque in Brooklyn is one of the oldest continuously operating mosques in the U.S., and represents the first Islamic organization in both the city and the state of New York.[103][104]

Hinduism and other religious affiliations[edit]

Following these three largest religious groups in New York City are Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, and a variety of other religions. As of 2023, 24% of Greater New Yorkers identified with no organized religious affiliation, including 4% Atheist.[105]

Wealth and income disparity[edit]

New York City, like other large cities, has a high degree of income disparity, as indicated by its Gini coefficient of 0.55 as of 2017.[106] In the first quarter of 2014,[needs update] the average weekly wage in New York County (Manhattan) was $2,749, representing the highest total among large counties in the United States.[107] In 2022, New York City was home to the highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, with a total of 107.[108] New York also had the highest density of millionaires per capita among major U.S. cities in 2014, at 4.6% of residents.[109] New York City is one of the relatively few American cities levying an income tax (about 3%) on its residents.[110][111][112] As of 2018, there were 78,676 homeless people in New York City.[113]

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