Demographics of the Bronx
The Census Bureau considers the Bronx to be the most diverse area in the country.
[7] Approximately 44.3% of the population over the age of 5 speak only English at home, which is roughly 570,000 people.
Meanwhile, the other 3 boroughs like Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens had a more or less equal diverse racial and ethnic populations than The Bronx.
[12] At the 2000 census there were 1,332,650 people, 463,212 households, and 314,984 families residing in the borough of The Bronx in New York City.
The Bronx has the largest number of Puerto Ricans of any county in the United States.
Out of all five boroughs, The Bronx has the lowest number and percentage of non Hispanic white residents.
The largest numbers come from Nigeria, but other nations such as Liberia, Ghana, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast, to name just a few, have contributed to this population.
Their percentage portion dropped slightly due to other racial populations increasing.
Only some 5,560 individuals (out of the borough's 1.4 million people) are Native American, which is equal to just 0.4% of the population.
However a significant amount of the Hispanic population are native but due to the confusion of the census it's not reflected.
[19] People identifying multiracial heritage are also a sizable minority in The Bronx, numbering over 41,800 individuals and represent 3.0% of the population.
People of mixed Caucasian and African American heritage number over 6,850 members and form 0.5% of the population.
People of mixed Caucasian and Native American heritage number over 2,450 members and form 0.2% of the population.
People of mixed Caucasian and Asian heritage number over 880 members and form 0.1% of the population.
At the 2010 Census, 53.5% of the Bronx's population was of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin (they may be of any race).
At the 2009 American Community Survey, Puerto Ricans represented 23.2% of the borough's population, Mexicans made 5.2%.
[21] The Puerto Rican population was at its height around 1980 when they represented about 30% of the Bronx, it declined in the 1990s and early 2000s, and it is relatively stagnant now.
In total, 55.98% (706,783) of the Bronx's population age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English.
However, since around 2000, increases in cost of living in New York and heavy immigration from Latin America and Africa, a new transition has been taking place, with Dominicans now outnumbering Puerto Ricans and African immigrants growing in size to the African American population.
