the jewish population of new york city is 561, 000.
the jewish population of new york city is 561, 000.
what is the jewish population of new york city?
561, 000
jews in new york city comprise approximately 13 percent of the city's population, making the jewish community the largest in the world outside of israel. , 1.1 million jews live in the five boroughs of new york city, and 2 million jews live in new york state overall. jews have immigrated to new york city since the first settlement in dutch new amsterdam in 1654, most notably at the end of the 19th century to the early 20th century, when the jewish population rose from about 80,000 in 1880 to 1.5 million in 1920. the large jewish population has led to a significant impact on the culture of new york city. after many decades of decline in the 20th century, the jewish population of new york city has seen a sharp increase in the 21st century, owing to the high birth rate of the hasidic and orthodox communities.
jews in new york city
the new york metropolitan area is home to the largest jewish population in the world outside israel. while most are descendants of jews who moved from europe, a growing number are of asian and middle eastern origin. after dropping from a peak of 2.5 million in the 1950s to a low of 1.4 million in 2002 the population of jews in the new york metropolitan area grew to 1.54 million in 2011. a study by the uja-federation of new york released in 2012 showed that the proportion of liberal jews was decreasing while the proportion of generally conservative orthodox jews and recent immigrants from russia was increasing. much of this growth is in brooklyn, which in 2012 was 23% jewish and where most of the russian immigrants live and nearly all of the ultra-orthodox. the study by uja-federation of new york has been criticized by j.j. goldberg, an observer at "the jewish daily forward", as excluding suburban jews, for example in new jersey, that are outside the service area of uja-federation of new york and also for lack of granularity with respect to the orthodox of new york city. the new york metropolitan area's jewish population in 2001 was approximately 1.97 million, 600,000 fewer than in israel's largest metropolitan area, denoted as gush dan. in 2012, an estimated 1,086,000 ashkenazic jews lived in new york city and constituted about 12% of the city's population, while approximately 100,000 sephardic jews live in the city too. new york city is also home to the world headquarters of the hasidic chabad-lubavitch group and the bobover, pupa, vizhnitz and satmar branches of hasidism, ultra-orthodox sects of judaism. many notable jews come from new york city.
demographics of new york city