Demographics of Manhattan

29.43% of the population was foreign born; of this, 48.4% came from Latin America, 27.1% from Asia, 18.4% from Europe and 6.1% from other parts of the world.

[15] The census of 2000 showed that the neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan (i.e., Manhattan south of Houston street) had a sharply different population than the rest of the borough with 41% Asian, 32% white (non-Hispanic), 19% Hispanic, and 6% black.

The high number of immigrants are related to those in Chinatown, whose population accounts for 55% of the total of Lower Manhattan.

Whites of non-Hispanic origin form a slight majority, making up 50.7% of the population.

German Americans are the largest Euro-American ethnic group in the borough, making up 7.2% of the population.

[17] Black Americans make up 15.5% of the borough's population and are concentrated primarily in the Upper Manhattan region of Harlem.

The percentage of Blacks in Manhattan has continually been on the decline since the end of World War II.

[citation needed] This is in large part due to the exodus of Black residents from Harlem which peaked in population in 1950[citation needed] and the establishment of Black communities in the other boroughs such as Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Southeast Queens, and the Northeast Bronx.

Roughly 27,000 residents reported their ancestry as Sub-Saharan African in the survey, which is equal to 1.6% of Manhattan's population.

Harlem has seen a pattern of gentrification and a wave of new businesses came to the section during the 1990s and it is home of an increasingly large upper-class of all races, but the majority happen to be African-American.

In addition, people who are of mixed Caucasian and Native American ancestry make up 0.2% of the population.

In addition, people of Caucasian and Asian heritage make up 0.8% of the population, and number over 13,400 individuals.

Hispanic and Latino Americans are the largest ethnic minority group in Manhattan.

Hispanics are numerous throughout the borough but most prominently in East Harlem, Loisada, and Washington Heights.

48.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

In total, 40.02% (602,058) of Manhattan's population age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English.

According to a report by The Association of Religion Data,[24] the largest religious affiliation in Manhattan is the Roman Catholic Church, whose adherents constitute 564,505 persons (more than 36% of the population) and maintain 110 congregations.

[5] In 1910, at the height of European immigration to New York, Manhattan's population density reached a peak of 101,548 people per square mile (39,208 people/km2).