How many Muslims are in NY?

The New York metropolitan area also has one of the largest Muslim communities in the United States. The New York City Community Affairs Bureau estimates that there are between 800,000 – 1,000,000 Muslims living in New York.
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How many Muslims are living in New York?

Islam is the third most widely professed religion in New York City, after Christianity and Judaism. A 2018 study estimated that there are over 750,000 Muslims living in New York City, the largest population of Muslims by city in the United States.
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How many Muslims are in Brooklyn NY?

New York City is home to over 600,000 Muslims, according to a study by Columbia University. The Association of Religion Data Archives found, that, as of the year 2000, there were nearly 58,000 Muslims living in Brooklyn, many of whom live in Bay Ridge, Coney Island and near the western part of Atlantic Avenue.
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How many mosques are in NYC?

Today, there are now over 300 registered mosques in the City.
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How many Arabs live NYC?

There are now around 160,000 Arabs in NYC and more than 480,000 in New York State. According to the Arab American Institute the population of people who identify themselves as Arab, grew by 23% between 2000 and 2008.
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What are the top 3 religions in New York?

Religions
  • Roman Catholicism (31%)
  • Protestantism (26%)
  • Mormonism (0.5%)
  • Eastern Orthodoxy (1%)
  • Jehovah's Witnesses (1%)
  • Other Christian (0.5%)
  • No religion (27%)
  • Judaism (7%)
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What is the majority race in New York?

New York Demographics

White: 62.31% Black or African American: 15.39% Asian: 8.58% Other race: 8.56%
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What is the largest ethnic group in NYC?

New York City Demographics
  • White: 41.33%
  • Black or African American: 23.82%
  • Other race: 14.43%
  • Asian: 14.29%
  • Two or more races: 5.63%
  • Native American: 0.44%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.06%
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Which religion is most powerful?

Major religious groups
  • Christianity (31.2%)
  • Islam (24.1%)
  • No religion (16%)
  • Hinduism (15.1%)
  • Buddhism (6.9%)
  • Folk religions (5.7%)
  • Sikhism (0.3%)
  • Judaism (0.2%)
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What's the least religious country?

China tops the list of the world's least religious nations by far; it's followed by countries in Europe — about three fourth of all Swedish and Czech also said that they were either atheists or not religious.
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What is the poorest part of New York?

Five City Council districts (8, 14, 15, 16, and 17) encompassing East Harlem and the south and central West Bronx had poverty rates of 35%–40%. In one-third of City Council districts, more than one out of every four people lived in poverty (25%).
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Where is little Russia in NYC?

No, not Russia… Brighton Beach. Just up the boardwalk from New York's famous Coney Island, is a neighbourhood diaspora of Russians and Ukrainians, dubbed “Little Russia.” A 45-minute subway ride in New York can take you to places that feel equally as foreign as a somewhere a 10-hour international flight can.
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Where do poor New Yorkers live?

Areas of high poverty show patterns of concentration.

The Poverty Rate map below shows that high-poverty Census tracts (shaded dark on the map) are clustered in the South Bronx, northern Manhattan, northwest Brooklyn, Coney Island, Williamsburg, and Borough Park.
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Where do middle class New Yorkers live?

Queens is the city's most middle-class borough, the stats found, with 54 percent of the borough's population living in middle-income areas.
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What is the blackest city in America?

New York city had the largest number of people reporting as Black with about 2.3 million, followed by Chicago, 1.1 million, and Detroit, Philadelphia and Houston, which had between 500,000 and 1 million each.
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What is the poorest borough in NYC?

The Bronx has the highest rate of poverty in New York City, and the greater South Bronx is the poorest area.
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Where do Pakistanis live in Queens?

The largest Pakistani neighborhood in the city was located in the Midwood- Kensington area of Brooklyn (see map), with growing populations in Fresh Meadows, Queens, and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
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Where do Turks live in NYC?

For years, Turkish immigrants have dotted the Upper East Side of Manhattan and settled among other Muslims and Orthodox Jews in the Midwood, Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay sections of Brooklyn.
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Where do most Arabs live in New York?

To this day, Arab Immigrants reside primarily in the New York City area. They predominantly occupy the outer NYC boroughs. Current Arab American immigrants have been settling permanently within the outer boroughs of the city, those in particular are Brooklyn and Queens.
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