The New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area, is by far the largest populous Metro Area in the United States.

Total Population: 19,768,458

Census Data

• Foreign Born - 3,791,179
• Language Spoken at Home - 11,533,510

[Source: American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Foreign Born and Language Spoken at Home]

Quick Facts

• Ride the Subway in NY to catch a vision for NY's people group diversity! New York City Subway has 842 miles of subway track to serve 5.4 million every weekday.


• Home to over 1 million Asian and 600,000 European foreign born people.


• New York City alone has 3 large “Chinatowns” (Manhattan’s Chinatown, Sunset Park in Brooklyn and Downtown Flushing, Queens) with as many as 7 smaller ones in Metro New York.


• Home to the largest South Asian Indian population in the Western Hemisphere.


• Home to the largest total Asian population in the United States.


• Home to the largest Jewish and Israeli populations outide of the nation of Israel.


• Home to the largest Arab, Palestinian population in the United States, with its Little Ramallah in Paterson, New Jersey.


• Largest population of Puerto Rican outside their home country.


• New York City alone is 36% Foreign Born.

Read about ... New York City Ethnic Enclaves

Learn about the ... Unreached PGs of the New York Metro Area