New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY


The New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area, is by far the largest populous Metro Area in the United States.

Total Population: 19,768,458

Census Data

  • Foreign Born - 3,791,179
  • Language Spoken at Home - 11,533,510

[Source: American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Foreign Born and Language Spoken at Home]

Quick Facts

  • Ride the Subway in NY to catch a vision for NY's people group diversity! New York City Subway has 842 miles of subway track to serve 5.4 million every weekday.

  • Home to over 1 million Asian and 600,000 European foreign born people.

  • New York City alone has 3 large “Chinatowns” (Manhattan’s Chinatown, Sunset Park in Brooklyn and Downtown Flushing, Queens) with as many as 7 smaller ones in Metro New York.

  • Home to the largest South Asian Indian population in the Western Hemisphere.

  • Home to the largest total Asian population in the United States.

  • Home to the largest Jewish and Israeli populations outide of the nation of Israel.

  • Home to the largest Arab, Palestinian population in the United States, with its Little Ramallah in Paterson, New Jersey.

  • Largest population of Puerto Rican outside their home country.

  • New York City alone is 36% Foreign Born.

Read about ... New York City Ethnic Enclaves

Learn about the ... Unreached PGs of the New York Metro Area


Profile

Two Key Words describe the Metro - DENSITY and DIVERSITY of the Population. The New York Metro Area is, without a doubt, one of the most ethno-linguistically and culturally diverse cities in the world.

It's almost impossible to walk down the street without seeing the vibrant interweaving of other cultures and hearing people speak languages other than English. To be in the New York Metro Area is to be in an area of countless tongues. The languages of the world are deeply ingrained in every corner of the Metro Area, and with them, their distinctive cultures.


People Group Highlights

Displaying 1-25 of 165 results.
PG Name Country Of Birth IMB Affinity Group Affinity Bloc Primary Religion Baseline Population Total
Jew, BobovPolandNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesJewsEthnic Religions - Judaism50,000
Jew, YemeniYemenNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesJewsEthnic Religions - Judaism25,000
Jew, SkverUkraineNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesJewsEthnic Religions - Judaism15,000
Jew, ViznitzUkraineNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesJewsEthnic Religions - Judaism15,000
Jew, Gorsky-KavkaziRussiaNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesJewsEthnic Religions - Judaism10,000
AfghanAfghanistanCentral Asia PeoplesPersian-MedianIslam9,871
Afghan, Hindu/SikhsAfghanistanSouth Asian PeoplesSouth Asian PeoplesOther Religions - Sikhism6,000
Jew, BreslovUkraineNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesJewsEthnic Religions - Judaism5,000
Jew, GerrerPolandNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesJewsEthnic Religions - Judaism5,000
Jew, MashadiIranNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesJewsEthnic Religions - Judaism5,000
Arab, LibyanLibyaNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesArab WorldIslam - Sunni3,500
ChadianChadSub-Saharan African PeoplesSub-Saharan AfricanIslam1,400
Jew, SyrianSyriaNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesJewsEthnic Religions - Judaism76,000
KarachayRussiaCentral Asia PeoplesEurasian PeoplesIslam - Sunni850
Arab, Lebanese DruzeLebanonNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesArab WorldIslam800
Jew, SpanishSpainNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesJewsEthnic Religions - Judaism310
Arab, DjiboutianDjiboutiNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesArab WorldIslam - Sunni275
BalochiIranCentral Asia PeoplesPersian-MedianIslam275
AcehIndonesiaSoutheast Asian PeoplesMalay PeoplesIslam - Sunni135
Jew, RussianRussiaNorth African and Middle Eastern PeoplesJewsEthnic Religions - Judaism400,000
HindiIndiaSouth Asian PeoplesSouth Asian PeoplesHinduism249,722
GujaratiIndiaSouth Asian PeoplesSouth Asian PeoplesHinduism138,735
BengaliBangladeshSouth Asian PeoplesSouth Asian PeoplesIslam - Sunni118,166
UrduPakistanSouth Asian PeoplesSouth Asian PeoplesIslam105,236
Punjabi SikhIndiaSouth Asian PeoplesSouth Asian PeoplesOther Religions - Sikhism80,000


Ethnic Links

Walking Around (New York City's Ethnic Neighborhoods) - a guide and list for those who enjoy exploring the worlds and different ethnic groups that are within New York.

New York Ethnic Neighborhoods - New York Times map of the various ethnic groups within NYC.


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