New NYC Census Data

The Census Bureau is releasing data that will show an increase in Asians and Hispanics and a decrease in whites and blacks. Almost 500,000 New York immigrants came after 2000, and NYU's Immigration Studies professor Marcelo Suarez-Orozco explains to the Daily News, "If you dig a little deeper into the numbers, it shows women of Mexican, Dominican and Chinese origin are having babies at a rate much higher than other ethnicities." Other fun fact: NYC is still the biggest city in the country (LA has about half as many people). The Daily News also reports that the city will challenge the Census Bureau's estimate that the city has 8.168 million - the city says our population is closer to 8.2 million and high numbers means more federal funding.

You can get some NYC stats from the 2000 Census by using the Census Fact Finder. And the chart is from Wikipedia's "Demographics of New York City" entry; it's not really related to the racial breakdown, but we liked how it expressed the distribution of residents per borough. Finally, did you know that the US population will grow to 300 million later this year? Here's an interesting list of stats about the country when its population hit 100 million in 1915 and 200 million in 1967.

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By Jen Chung in News on August 15, 2006 9:18 AM

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JustWonderful

And unfortunately, all of these Asian and Hispanic babies being born are being given U.S. Citezship.

Just Wonderful.

America continues it's spiral downward to becoming a new Third World country.

lani

Blacks are moving down south. Its the great migration once again accept its going the opposite with this time.

And patticake, are you just writing ridiculous comments for every story, or is it safe to read the next article?

Dumpling Queen

Hey pattiecake,

Asians acutally have the highest income of any racial group in the US.

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/005647.html

Snuggles,

Dumpling Queen

pattiecake

yes. Too bad it's all poor and uneducated hispanics and asians having babies. If they were smart they wouldn't have babies. But then they couldn't collect welfare. Aother burden for you and me my tax paying friends.

zincink

they are moving upstate ny and to jersey..

jersey people are moving to florida or the carolinas..people down south are moving to alabama..

P

they are moving to the suburbs probably

Johnie

Thanks! I was actually looking for these stats.

The other thing I'm having trouble finding is the ratio of male to female in the city. Also single male to single female...etc..

CLIMAX TOGETHER

Where in the world are the Blacks and Whites moving to?

P

It's not much of a revelation to suggest that Mexicans and Dominicans have high birth rates, given that both are strongly Catholic and we all know how the Catholic church feels about birth control. It's not going to change unless the Catholic church comes out in support of more than just the rhythm method.