Race and Ethnic History of New York City - New York City

New York City

The following tables present a consolidated demographic profile of race and ethnicity in New York City which includes all five boroughs.

Year Population White %
W
Non-Hispanic Whites %
ANG
Black %
B
Asian %
A
Other or
Mixed
%
O/M
Hispanic/
Latino
%
H/L
Foreign
born
%
FB
1900 3,437,202 3,369,898 98.04 N/A N/A 60,666 1.76 6,607 0.19 31 0 N/A N/A 1,270,080 36.95
1910 4,766,883 4,669,162 97.95 N/A N/A 91,709 1.92 5,669 0.12 343 0.01 N/A N/A 1,944,357 40.79
1920 5,620,048 5,459,463 97.14 N/A N/A 152,467 2.71 7,969 0.14 149 0 N/A N/A 2,028,160 36.09
1930 6,930,446 6,589,377 95.08 N/A N/A 327,706 4.73 12,972 0.19 391 0.01 N/A N/A 2,358,686 34.03
1940 7,454,995 6,977,501 93.59 6,856,586 91.97 458,444 6.15 17,986 0.24 1,064 0.01 120,915 1.62 2,138,657 28.69
1950 7,891,957 7,116,441 90.17 N/A N/A 747,608 9.47 21,441 0.27 6,467 0.08 N/A N/A 1,784,206 22.61
1960 7,781,984 6,640,662 85.33 N/A N/A 1,087,931 13.98 43,103 0.55 10,288 0.13 N/A N/A 1,558,690 20.03
1970 7,894,862 6,048,841 76.62 4,969,749 62.95 1,668,115 21.13 94,499 1.20 83,407 1.06 1,278,630 16.20 1,437,058 18.20
1980 7,071,639 4,294,075 60.72 3,668,945 51.88 1,784,337 25.23 231,501 3.27 761,762 10.77 1,406,024 19.88 1,670,199 23.62
1990 7,322,564 3,827,088 52.26 3,163,125 43.20 2,102,512 28.71 512,719 7.00 880,245 12.02 1,783,511 24.36 2,082,931 28.45
2000 8,008,278 3,576,385 44.66 2,801,267 34.98 2,129,762 26.59 792,477 9.90 1,509,654 18.85 2,160,554 26.98 2,871,032 35.85
2010 8,175,133 3,597,341 44.00 2,722,904 33.31 2,088,510 25.55 1,043,535 12.77 1,445,747 17.68 2,336,076 28.58

Read more about this topic:  Race And Ethnic History Of New York City

Famous quotes containing the words york city, york and/or city:

    “The gay world that flourished in the half-century between 1890 and the beginning of the Second World War, a highly visible, remarkably complex, and continually changing gay male world, took shape in New York City.... It is not supposed to have existed.”
    —George Chauncey, U.S. educator, author. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, p. 1, Basic Books (1994)

    “More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.”
    —Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)

    “He bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend to the wind. He represents continuous hard labor, year in, year out, and small gains. He is a slow person, timed to Nature, and not to city watches. He takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry. Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)