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The 1892 New York state census is more vague, asking only for a country of birth (rather than a specific U.S. state or New York county of birth), not indicating relationships of various people to each other, and not indicating where new families begin on the census forms. [15] Indeed, the 1892 New York state census contained only seven ...
b ^ While all Native Americans in the United States were only counted as part of the (total) U.S. population since 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau previously either enumerated or made estimates of the non-taxed Native American population (which was not counted as a part of the U.S. population before 1890) for the 1860–1880 time period.
A large percentage of the immigrants that came to New York City after 1965 were from non-European countries. [5] Large numbers of Irish people arrived in New York City during the Great Famine in the 1840s, while Germans, Italians, Jews, and other European ethnic groups arrived in NYC mostly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [5]
According to one source [15] the following were the countries of origin for new arrivals coming to the United States before 1790. The regions marked * were part of Great Britain. The ancestry of the 3.9 million population in 1790 has been estimated from various sources by sampling last names in the 1790 census and assigning them a country of ...
Historical population of NY. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2023, New York was the fourth largest state in population after California, Texas, and Florida, with a population of 19,571,216, a decrease of over 600,000 people, or −3.1%, since the 2020 census. [2]
The state with the largest increase over the past two census was Texas, where in 2000, over 1.5 million residents reported having "American ancestry." [41] In the 1980 census, 26% of United States residents cited that they were of English ancestry, making them the largest group at the time. [42] In the 2000 United States Census, 6.9% of the ...
A map showing the most common ancestry of the people of each county in New York. Date: 1 August 2007: Source: Based upon Image:Ancestry-new-york-by county-2000.PNG by en:User:Revas (public domain) and Image:Map of New York County Outlines.svg by User:Bastique (public domain). Data taken from the 2000 U.S. census. Created by bdesham in Inkscape.
New York newspapers were read across the nation, particularly, the New York Tribune, edited by Horace Greeley, the voice of the new Republican Party. [30] As immigration increased in cities, poverty rose as well. The poorest crowded into low-cost housing such as the Five Points and Hell's Kitchen neighborhoods in Manhattan.