Burmese (3.5%), French and French-Canadian (2.7%), Arab and Lebanese (2%), (non-Hispanic) Caribbean West Indies (1.8%), Dominican (1.5%), Vietnamese (1.5%) and Cambodian (.7%).
Looking at today's demography in waves, historically the Oneida and other Iroquois peoples controlled all of what is now Upstate New York.
Towards the end of the Colonial period, the English and Germans settled in this region, the four groups today constitute a combined approximately (21%) of the population.
Later, Italians and Irish immigrants, who were heavily discriminated against in the New World, found a home in and would come to dominate the politics of the city, today pulling it strongly Democrat.
African Americans having fled from the South for greater freedom and economic mobility account for approximately (10.5%) of the city.
Eastern Europeans and Asians who were initially barred mass entry in the twentieth century due to American perceptions of race, and who today make up a large share of the refugee population, together account for (25%).
Of that number, about 7,000 were Italians, 4,000 were Poles, more than 3,000 were Germans, more than 2,000 were from Ireland, less than 1,400 were from England, over 1,000 were from Wales, and 500 from present-day Syria and Lebanon.
[8] The arrival of a large number of immigrants since the 1990s has stanched the city's population loss that had been steady for more than three decades.