Demographics of New York (state)

Additional major urban centers include Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica.

The intense development, urbanization and suburban sprawl of New York City makes it the most populated region in New York and the collective U.S., an estimated 20 to 30 million in the eight-state Megalopolis stretching 500 miles from Boston to Washington, D.C., with New York City in the middle has 15 million residents in a 100-mile radius including Philadelphia (1.5 million in its city limits), northern New Jersey and Connecticut.

According to the July 1, 2004 Census Bureau Estimate,[7] New York City and its six closest New York State satellite counties (Suffolk, Nassau, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Orange) have a combined population of 12,626,200 people, or 65.67% of the state's population.

[9] The State of New York in the 2020 Census had a population of 20,201,249 and the racial makeup was 52.5% Non-Hispanic White, 19.5% Hispanic or Latino, 14.8% Black, 9.6% Asian, 0.7% Native American, and 0.1% Pacific Islander.

Most Hispanic and Latino New Yorkers come from Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican, Ecuadorian, Salvadoran, Colombian, Guatemalan, Honduran, Peruvian, Cuban,[11] backgrounds.

Most Asian New Yorkers have Chinese, Indian, Korean, Filipino, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Japanese, or Vietnamese ancestry.

Broken down via US Census Racial classifications, this includes 12,740,974 (65.7%) white, 3,073,800 (15.9%) black, 1,420,244 (7.3%) Asian, 8,766 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, and 1,441,563 (7.4%) of other races.

Cities such as Buffalo and Rochester are predominantly made of African Americans and various European and near-European ethnic groups.

Note: Births in table don't add up, because Hispanics are counted both by their ethnicity and by their race, giving a higher overall number.

As of 2015, 70.72% (12,788,233) of New York residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a primary language, while 14.44% (2,611,903) spoke Spanish, 2.61% (472,955) Chinese (which includes Cantonese and Mandarin), 1.20% (216,468) Russian, 1.18% (213,785) Italian, 0.79% (142,169) French Creole, 0.75% (135,789) French, 0.67% (121,917) Yiddish, 0.63% (114,574) Korean and 0.53% (95,413) Polish.

In total, 29.28% (5,295,016) of New York's population aged 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English.