Demographics of New York

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Demographics of New York

In 2006, the United States Census Bureau conducted their surveys and concluded that New York was the third largest state in population polls after the much larger states of California and Texas.  New York had an estimated population of nineteen million three thousand six one hundred eighty three, which is actually a decrease of nine thousand five hundred thirty eight from 2005.  However, it was increase of over three hundred thousand since 2000.  The population estimate included a natural increase of six hundred thousand people, which is one point five million births minus almost one hundred thousand deaths.

New York is a slow growing state according to the census and has a large emigration rate.  When you look at the immigration statistics, New York is a leading recipient of migrants from all over the world.  Even though there were some decreases in population, in January of 2007, New York’s population count increased again, giving it some change from 2006. This statistic may mean that the population will continue to increase throughout 2007.  Orange County is where the center of population is located in New York, in a town called Deerpark.

In 2004, an estimate claimed that twenty percent of the population was foreign born.  New York City has the largest number of foreign-born residents in the nation.  The percentages for the foreign-born are supposedly higher than those of Los Angeles or Miami.  New York City has been known as a major hub of immigration in the later twentieth century.  The top ancestry groups in the state of New York are African Americans at fifteen percent, Italian at fourteen percent, Irish at twelve percent, German at eleven percent and Polish at five percent.  The other one percent of the population is multiracial.  New York City is one of the world’s most ethnically diverse cities in terms of the variety of cultures and nationalities living so close to one another.  Brooklyn is one of the country’s twenty counties where every racial group comprises one fifth of the city population.  Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse were equally settled by immigrants of every nationality within the last four hundred years.

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