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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.

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

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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.

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People Group Profiles

Displaying 26-50 of 163 results.

PG Name	Country Of Birth	Affinity Bloc	Primary Religion	Baseline Population Total

Mossi	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan African	Islam	1,100
Botswanan, Tswana	Botswana	Sub-Saharan African	Christianity - Independent	1,200
Chadian	Chad	Sub-Saharan African	Islam	1,400
Namibian	Namibia	Sub-Saharan African	Ethnic Religions	1,450
Danes	Denmark	Eurasian Peoples	Christianity	1,560
Bahamian	Bahamas	North American Peoples	Christianity	1,700
Fulani	Sudan	Sub-Saharan African	Islam	1,700
Alsatian	France	Eurasian Peoples	Non-Religious	2,000
Ivorian	Ivory Coast	Sub-Saharan African	Ethnic Religions	2,100
Greek Cypriot	Cyprus	Eurasian Peoples	Christianity - Orthodox	2,200
Mozambican	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan African	Christianity - Roman Catholic	2,300
Macedonian	Macedonia	Eurasian Peoples	Christianity - Orthodox	2,480
Arab, Algerian	Algeria	Arab World	Islam - Sunni	2,600
Chinese, (Shanghainese) Wu	China	East Asian Peoples	Non-Religious	2,600
Lithuanian	Lithuania	Eurasian Peoples	Christianity - Roman Catholic	2,650
Mixtec, Southeastern Guerrero	Mexico	Latin-Caribbean Americans	Christianity - Roman Catholic	3,000
Slovak	Slovakia	Eurasian Peoples	Christianity - Orthodox	3,000
Hausa Muslim (Nigerien)	Niger	Sub-Saharan African	Islam - Sunni	3,000
Chinese, Teochew	China	East Asian Peoples	Ethnic Religions - Chinese Universalism / Folk	3,200
Congolese	Congo	Sub-Saharan African	Christianity	3,200
Malian	Mali	Sub-Saharan African	Islam - Sunni	3,200
Arab, Libyan	Libya	Arab World	Islam - Sunni	3,500
Dutch	Netherlands	Eurasian Peoples	Non-Religious	3,600
Krio	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan African	Ethnic Religions - Ethno-Religion	3,600
Galibi Karibi	Venezuela	Latin-Caribbean Americans	Christianity - Roman Catholic	4,000

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