Country of Birth for the Foreign-born Population


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Table 1.X
Country of Birth for the Foreign-born Population
New York City, Boroughs and Census Tracts, 2000
COUNTRY OF BIRTH	New York City	Bronx	Brooklyn	Manhattan	Queens	Staten Island
Total Foreign-born Population	2,871,032	385,827	931,769	452,440	1,028,339	72,657
Europe	557,492	40,577	238,383	83,327	169,014	26,191
Northern Europe	57,728	7,629	11,727	19,890	16,702	1,780
United Kingdom	28,996	2,607	7,314	12,319	6,020	736
Ireland	22,604	4,907	2,771	4,147	10,082	697
Sweden	2,421	54	377	1,751	171	68
Western Europe	54,858	3,338	10,281	24,642	15,068	1,529
Austria	6,700	602	1,621	2,085	2,258	134
France	12,386	425	2,034	7,055	2,641	231
Germany	27,708	2,096	4,917	10,783	8,856	1,056
Netherlands	2,455	98	411	1,441	479	26
Southern Europe	114,469	11,470	30,969	12,255	50,410	9,365
Greece	29,805	1,535	4,876	2,386	20,304	704
Italy	72,481	9,142	24,719	5,984	24,391	8,245
Portugal	2,718	109	293	738	1,483	95
Spain	7,836	645	893	2,581	3,428	289
Eastern Europe	329,721	18,029	185,120	26,480	86,575	13,517
Czechoslovakia	8,628	327	3,840	1,432	2,658	371
Hungary	11,144	836	4,291	2,206	3,629	182
Poland	65,999	2,133	35,382	5,221	21,205	2,058
Romania	19,280	913	4,253	2,183	11,729	202
Belarus	11,187	219	9,406	333	669	560
Russia	81,408	3,111	51,781	5,832	17,232	3,452
Ukraine	69,727	1,746	55,573	3,194	6,994	2,220
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,020	271	463	172	1,090	24
Yugoslavia	19,535	4,378	3,566	2,354	7,443	1,794
Asia	686,599	28,656	183,909	122,417	331,323	20,294
Eastern Asia	352,757	7,721	93,651	84,363	159,820	7,202
Mainland China	207,914	3,657	72,673	54,964	73,792	2,828
Hong Kong	31,895	466	11,809	5,512	12,850	1,258
Taiwan	21,742	240	1,582	3,415	16,260	245
Japan	19,415	400	1,763	12,134	4,975	143
Korea	70,990	2,955	5,560	8,209	51,556	2,710
South Central Asia	183,948	9,807	41,521	13,800	112,373	6,447
Afghanistan	4,833	25	419	174	4,141	74
Bangladesh	42,865	3,990	9,756	2,252	26,589	278
India	68,263	3,440	6,838	6,354	48,132	3,499
Iran	7,112	239	1,147	2,236	3,371	119
Pakistan	39,165	1,874	16,872	1,780	17,314	1,325
South Eastern Asia	86,706	8,470	17,093	13,846	42,730	4,567
Cambodia	2,219	777	806	125	442	69
Indonesia	2,727	108	363	543	1,674	39
Laos	418	105	129	29	155	0
Malaysia	7,618	52	1,926	2,048	3,533	59
Philippines	49,644	4,129	6,769	7,319	27,628	3,799
Thailand	4,148	489	268	860	2,371	160
Vietnam	14,707	2,770	5,094	1,731	4,882	230
Syria	5,191	36	4,605	199	288	63
Turkey	9,026	193	3,445	1,810	3,385	193
Armenia	1,507	0	555	115	837	0
Africa	92,435	25,747	23,588	15,838	20,148	7,114
Eastern Africa	5,165	919	724	1,586	1,810	126
Ethiopia	1,792	482	260	514	536	0
Middle Africa	1,659	324	280	385	557	113
Northern Africa	23,836	804	8,709	3,213	8,848	2,262
Egypt	15,231	505	5,942	1,489	5,314	1,981
Southern Africa	2,356	64	428	1,608	256	0
South Africa	2,214	64	407	1,539	204	0
Western Africa	47,885	18,539	10,911	7,051	7,121	4,263
Ghana	14,915	9,275	2,481	1,236	1,323	600
Nigeria	15,689	4,299	5,492	869	3,596	1,433
Sierra Leone	1,599	432	266	390	323	188
Oceania	4,982	97	829	3,305	599	152
Australia	3,860	71	630	2,638	425	96
New Zealand	804	26	124	580	68	6
Melanesia	124	0	0	52	22	50
Micronesia	36	0	28	0	8	0
Polynesia	146	0	47	35	64	0
Americas	1,529,485	290,750	485,055	227,553	507,228	18,899
Latin America	1,511,419	289,739	480,520	218,795	504,012	18,353
Caribbean	856,229	204,104	312,075	152,122	182,004	5,924
Barbados	27,065	2,164	19,249	927	4,466	259
Cuba	26,030	4,635	3,863	8,255	8,580	697
Dominican Republic	369,186	124,032	59,362	125,063	59,444	1,285
Haiti	95,580	1,643	61,267	5,083	27,212	375
Jamaica	178,922	51,120	73,580	5,886	47,145	1,191
Trinidad and Tobago	88,794	6,145	52,256	2,852	26,255	1,286
Central America	245,142	46,278	83,624	31,440	76,455	7,345
Mexico	122,550	20,962	39,605	19,426	37,667	4,890
Costa Rica	5,819	863	2,638	627	1,451	240
El Salvador	26,802	3,293	5,308	2,546	15,478	177
Guatemala	17,936	3,056	5,153	1,427	7,979	321
Honduras	32,358	12,774	9,117	3,426	6,019	1,022
Nicaragua	8,284	1,764	2,821	1,453	2,128	118
Panama	23,118	1,743	15,055	1,522	4,457	341
South America	410,048	39,357	84,821	35,233	245,553	5,084
Argentina	11,677	726	1,963	2,971	5,608	409
Bolivia	3,875	97	204	397	3,112	65
Brazil	14,241	517	1,176	5,039	7,208	301
Chile	6,780	654	845	1,677	3,299	305
Colombia	84,404	3,322	7,597	5,927	66,192	1,366
Ecuador	114,944	14,800	20,256	12,217	66,643	1,028
Guyana	130,647	14,868	46,425	1,727	66,918	709
Peru	27,278	2,296	3,128	2,598	18,697	559
Venezuela	8,181	1,224	1,658	2,000	3,104	195
Northern America	18,066	1,011	4,535	8,758	3,216	546
Canada	17,318	846	4,394	8,487	3,045	546
Born at Sea	39	0	5	0	27	7
Source:
U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census

Table 1.X

Country of Birth for the Foreign-born Population

New York City, Boroughs and Census Tracts, 2000

Europe

Asia

Africa

Oceania

Americas