NEW YORK CITY STATISTICS
Population of New York City in 2016 is 8.6 million
- New York City is by far the largest city in the United States
- Since the first US census in 1790, it has held that position, and continues to have more than double the population of Los Angeles, the second-largest city. Chicago is the third-largest city in the US, but has just 1/3 the number of people as New York City.
- Brooklyn – 2.6 million
- Queens – 2.4 million
- Manhattan – 1.6
- Bronx – 1.4 million
- Staten Island – 0.5 million
- Foreign born persons – 37% (this is more than the whole population of Chicago)
- Language other than English spoken at home – 49%
- About 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in New York City.
- The borough of Brooklyn on its own would be the 4th largest city in the United States
- New York City has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia.
- New York has the largest Puerto Rican population of any city in the world.
- More Dominicans live in New York than any other city in the world, barring Santo Domingo.
- The Jewish community is the largest in the world outside of Israel.
The city features five separate boroughs: Staten Island, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan.
- Queens is the largest borough (followed by Brooklyn, Bronx, and Staten Island)
- Manhattan is the smallest
- Size of NYC is 302 sq. miles
Median household income in 2016 $63,000
Number of full-service restaurants: 3,961
Number of visitors to NYC in 2017 – 62.8 million
Number of languages spoken in NYC is 800
NYC population growth since the 1800s
- 1800 – 60,000
- 1830 – 185,000
- 1850 – 590,000
- 1880 – almost 2 million
- 1900 – almost 4 million
NYC subway is one of the largest and oldest in the world
- There are 5.7 million subway rides per weekday
- Number of stations – 472
- Number of routes – 22
- The longest ride is the A train from 207th Street in Manhattan to Far Rockaway in Queens (more than 31 miles)
City Beautiful Tours 