brooklyn is the borough that has the largest population in new york city.
brooklyn is the borough that has the largest population in new york city.
which borough has the largest population in new york city?
brooklyn
according to the 2010 united states census, new york city had the largest population of self-defined black residents of any u.s. city, with over 2,000,000 within the city's boundaries, although this number has decreased since 2000. new york city had more black people than did the entire state of california until the 1980 united states census. the black population consists of immigrants and their descendants from africa and the caribbean as well as native-born african-americans. many of the city's black residents live in brooklyn and the bronx. several of the city's neighborhoods are historical birthplaces of urban black culture in america, among them the brooklyn neighborhood of bedford–stuyvesant and manhattan's harlem and various sections of eastern queens and the bronx. bedford-stuyvesant is considered to have the highest concentration of black residents in the united states. 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, belize, 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.
demographics of new york city
filipinos have been residing in new york city as early as the 1920s. in 1960, there were only 2,744 filipinos in new york city. in 1990, there were 43,229 filipinos in new york city, with the number increasing to around 54,993 in 2000. a profile of new york city's filipino american population, based on an analysis of 2000 and 1990 u.s. census data reported that filipino new yorkers surpassed non-filipino new yorkers as a whole in income. new york city was home to an estimated 82,313 filipinos in 2011, representing a 7.7% increase from the estimated 77,191 in 2008. the filipino median household income in new york city was $81,929 in 2013, and 68% held a bachelor's degree or higher. the borough of queens is home to the largest concentration of filipinos within new york city, with about 38,000 filipinos per the 2010 census. in 2011, an estimated 56% of new york city's filipino population, or about 46,000, lived in queens. in 2014, filipinos remained the fourth largest population of asian americans in new york city, behind chinese, indians, and koreans. the annual philippine independence day parade is traditionally held on the first sunday of june on madison avenue in manhattan.
demographics of filipino americans