Demography of the town of New York

The population of the town of New York () is one of most important and the more cosmopolitan of the world. New York counts more than 8 million inhabitants (more than 21 in the agglomeration), which accounts for 40% of the population of the State of New York. Between 1995 and 2005, the population of New York increased more quickly than that of the area. The demographers estimate that it should reach the 9,4 million inhabitants about 2025.

During its history, New York was the principal door of the Immigration in the United States. Moreover the expression Melting pot was forged to describe the mixture of the populations of the district of Lower East Side. In 2005, nearly 170 different languages are spoken in the city and 36% of the New Yorkeans were born abroad.

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New York City is a Commune of the New Yorkean agglomeration. It counts more than 8 inhabitants million into 2006 divided into five Borough S, themselves cut out in districts. The Agglomération, which extends on the State New Jersey and from New York, gathers as for it 21 million inhabitants and the urban Aire: 24116176 what places it at the second world rank behind Tokyo at the Japan.

New York City Department off City Planning Population

History and demographic trends

| valign=" top" | |- |} On 23 million Europeans made at the the United States between 1880 and 1919, 17 million approximately unloaded in New York, and the majority remained there. In 1910,40% of the population of the city was of foreign birth. Ellis Island accommodated approximately 12 million people between her opening the 1892 and its closing the November 19th 1954. This island, from 1,2 hectare in the beginning, extended to 11 hectares progressively from the growth from the center from examination from the Immigrating S. One could in peak period examine until: 5000 people per day. After 1924 and the laws on the quotas of immigration of Johnson-Reed, which decreased the Immigration considerably, the center became a place of detention and expulsion for the undesirable foreigners.

In the middle of the 18th century, New York is populated than Boston and Philadelphia. But the development of the trade, the industry and the arrival of million European migrants cause strong a population growth at the next century. The New Yorkean population exceeds that of Paris at the end of the years 1880 but still remains behind London. After the Second world war the urban population decreases because of the Suburbanisation and the social difficulties. The phenomenon, which touches the majority of the American cities, is particularly strong in New York which loses: 821000 inhabitants between 1950 and 1980. But in the last decades of the 20th century, the population increases again.

Demographic trends by boroughs

Current characteristics

New York is the city the most populated of the United States, with a population close to twice higher than the second city to the country, Los Angeles (: 4097340 inhabitants). It counts: 8214426 inhabitants in 2006, which represents nearly 40% of the population of the state of New York. Between 1990 and 2000, the city gained: 685714 inhabitants.

According to the census of 2000, the life expectancy of the New Yorkeans was higher than the average of the Americans. It was established at 80,2 years for the women born in New York and 74,5 years for the men.

The density and demographic diversity are the two characteristics of the town of New York. Density reached: 10194 habitants/km ², which makes of New York the city densément populated, far in front of San Francisco. The density of the borough of Manhattan reaches even them: 25846 habitants/km ²).

The city has a long tradition of immigration. It also attracts the Americans for certain professions. New York is the city where the Americans would wish to live.

Since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, and especially from the years 1980, New York joins again with an important immigration. The latter come from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia d' Europe of the East and Africa. 36% of the New Yorkean population were born abroad. Approximately 170 languages are spoken in the city.

Ethnic composition

New York became a city where there is no majority ethnicity. In 2005, the white group accounts for 44% of the population. The Afro-Americans set up the second group with 25,3% of the population; in certain districts like Central Harlem, the Blacks are majority.

New York has one of the most important Asian communities of the country (11,6% of the population), including one great part lies in the Chinatown at the south of Manhattan. The other New Yorkeans are distributed between various ethnicities, or declare Métis.

The borough of the Queens is the only large county of the United States where median income of the Blacks (approximately: 52000 exceeds that of the White. It is also the county most various ethniquement of the country.

New York is also the place of the greatest Jewish community apart from Israel. It accommodates also the quarter of all the people originating in South Asia (in particular of India) living in the United States and the greatest community Afro-American of the country. One estimates at: 800000 the number of Porto Ricans. Among the populations of European origin, the Italians and the Irishmen are among most and impregnate the cultural life of New York.

Socio-economic data

The census of 2000 counted: 3021588 hearths which had a median income of: 38293 dollars. 30% of the hearths had a child of less than 18 years and 37% were consisted a married couple living together. 19% were hearths made up of a woman alone. 32% of the hearths are composed of a person alone and 10% elderly alone (more than 65 years). The intermediate size of a New Yorkean hearth was of 2,59 people and the intermediate size of the family was of 3,32 people.

The age structure reveals a relatively young population: 24% of the New Yorkeans have less than 18 years, 10% have between 18 and 24 years, 33% between 25 and 44 years, 21% between 45 and 64 and 12% are 65 years old or more. In 2000, the median age in New York east 34 years. The ratio of the sexes is established with 100 women for 90 men. On 100 18 year old women or less, there are 86 men.

The borough of Manhattan has known for a few years a single increase in the births among the American big cities. Since 2000, the number of children of less than 5 years living in Manhattan increased of more than 32%.

New York is marked by an important disparity of the incomes according to the districts. In Manhattan, the incomes means of the hearths vary: 9320 with: 188697 dollars. In 2006, the average wages per week were of: 1453 dollars in Manhattan, is one highest among the large American counties. Always in Manhattan, the wages know the greatest increase among the 10 larger counties of the country.

Manhattan is one of the districts where the incomes are highest of the country. In the district of Upper East Side, the annual average revenue per capita is established with: 90000 dollars. The others boroughs , in particular those of the Queens and Staten Island, are populated by the middle-classes.

In 2000, the income per capita was established with: 22402 dollars in New York. The median income of the men was of: 37435 dollars and that of the women of: 32949 dollars. 21,2% of the population and 18,5% of the families live under the Poverty line. 30% of the poor have less than 18 years, 17,8% are 65 years old or more.

The richest New Yorkean, the oil tycoon David H. Koch, has a personal fortune evaluated to 12 billion dollars. On the 400 richest Americans, 45 live in New York and are all billionaires.

Pattern of the settlement by ethnicity

Africans and Afro-Americans

According to the census of 2000, New York to the most important population Afro-American of all the American cities: more than two million American Blacks reside in the limits of the city. The principal centers of the culture Afro-American are Bedford Stuyvesant, Harlem and the South Bronx. The city counts also recent immigrants or descendants of immgrants coming from the Caribbean (in particular of the Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Guyana, the Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Haiti) and of sub-Saharan Africa. However, in an article of the NewYork Times of April 3rd, 2006, one noted that, for the first time since the American Civil War, the population Afro-American declined in New York for several reasons: multiplication of the departures towards other American cities, lowers birth rate, reduction in immigration coming from the Caribbean and Africa.

Chinese

South-Asian

In 2005 there was in New York: 275000 originating in India: 34310 of Pakistan: 18825 of Bangladesh and: 1094 of Sri Lanka. They account for all together 3,5% of the population of New York. They concentrate primarily in the districts of the Queens (Richmond Hills, Kew Gardens, Jackson Heights and Ozone Park). In the Queens, the population originating in South Asia represents: 170000 people and 8% of the population.

Germans

German immigration in the United States started with the Revolutions of 1848 to be completed during the First World War; it concerned nearly 6 million people. The German migrants settled especially in the Midwest but also in New York, in the district of Yorkville (Upper East Side). In the middle of the XIXe century, the district of Little Germany (today Alphabet City) was the only enclave of the country which did not speak English. In 2000: 255536 New Yorkeans stated to have German ancestors.

Irishman

The Irish community is one of principal of New York since the first waves of immigration in the middle of the XIXe century. Because of the great famine of 1845-1849, hundreds of Irish thousands took refuge in the United States. Today, the Irishmen play a great part in the life of New York, in institutions such as the Catholic church, the firemen and the police force. The parade of Saint-Patrick goes back to 1762. According to the census of 2000: 420810 New Yorkeans stated to have an Irish ancestor.

Irish districts of New York:

Italians

New York concentrates the greatest community the Italian-American ones. They are the descendants of the immigrants made at the end of XIXe and the beginning of the XXe century. Between 1820 and 1978,5,3 million Italians emigrated in the United States, including more than two million between 1900 and 1910. The first newcomers settled initially in the district of Little Italy around Mulberry Street.

According to the census of 2000: 692739 New Yorkeans stated to have an Italian ancestor. The agglomeration of New York counts: 3372512 Italian-American, that is to say the third Italian city behind Milan and Rome! The Italian parade takes place the day of the saint Joseph (March 19th). The Columbus Day is also celebrated, just like the regional saints (festival of San Gennaro on September 19th, celebrates Sainte Rosalie on September 4th).

List principal Italian districts:

Pole

The communities of Polish origin live primarily with Brooklyn (districts of Greenpoint and Williamsburg). The district often called “Little Poland” is the second of the United States behind that of Chicago. The census of 2000 gave a report on: 213447 New Yorkeans of Polish origin.

The Polish Institute off Arts and Sciences off America, the Farming Polish Institute and the New York Dance & Arts Innovations Inc. is the principal cultural institutions of the Polish community. New York is also the center of edition of the Polish Review, of the Nowy Dziennik, the Kurier Plus, the Post Eagle, the White Eagle, Super Express train the USA and the Polska Gazeta.

Jews

The New Yorkean agglomeration shelters the second Jewish community of the world after that of Israel. In 2001, the Jewish population of New York was of 1,97 million. In 2002, one estimated that the population ashkénaze with: 972000 people, is 12% of the total population.

The Jewish presence in New York goes back to the XVIIe century, when a first driven out group of Recife arrived. But Jewish immigration was most important in the years 1880 when a wave of anti-semitism touched the Central and Eastern Europe. They settled in the Lower East Side. In the years 1950, the Jews represented a quarter of the population of New York. Then this proportion declined because of the low level of fruitfulness and the departures towards the suburbs of New York or the states of California and Florida. A new wave of Jewish immigrants coming from the USSR arrived in the years 1980 and 1990. The Jewish community is present at Brooklyn (: 456000 people), in Manhattan (243 000) and in certain districts of Bronx. A quarter of the Jews living in New York are not practitioners. The orthodoxe ones increase whereas the conservatives and the reformists tend to decrease. Like the Irishmen, the Jews play a big role in the policy of the city.

Roumanians

The Rumanian community of New York is most important of North America. They concentrate especially in Bronx, in certain districts of Manhattan and Staten Island. The Romanian Day Festival.

Oporto Yankees

First Oporto Yankees in New York arrived in the middle of the XIXe century, when Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony. Then, a wave of emigration started with the américano-Spanish war and when Portorico became an American territory. The Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917 gave to the Porto Ricans American nationality and authorized them to come to the United States without passport. But it is in years 1950 that an massive immigration started, known like the “great migration” with the development of the air traffic. The Porto Rican population of New York is estimated at: 800000 people.

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