NEW YORK CITY'S BLACK POPULATION DECLINES
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Published on 08/22/2007
Meanwhile Asian and Hispanic Populations Grew
According to a recently released Census Bureau report, the population of New York City increased by over 200,000 people between 2000 and 2006 but the African American component of that population actually dropped by more than 40,000. The decline was a historic first.
While the Black population was declining in the nation's largest city, both the Hispanic and Asian populations grew by better than 90,000 during the 2000 to 2006 period.
Public officials and demographers attribute the Black population decline to soaring housing costs and an ever increasing number of Blacks returning to family roots in the South.
It was a mixed picture for whites. The number of whites living in the Bronx dropped by 11 percent while the number living in Manhattan increased by 9 percent. The Hispanic population increased in most parts of the metropolitan area but Asians were the only ethnic group to increase their presence in all five New York City boroughs as well as in the metropolitan area which includes parts of Connecticut and New Jersey.
http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur36140.cfm
According to a recently released Census Bureau report, the population of New York City increased by over 200,000 people between 2000 and 2006 but the African American component of that population actually dropped by more than 40,000. The decline was a historic first.
While the Black population was declining in the nation's largest city, both the Hispanic and Asian populations grew by better than 90,000 during the 2000 to 2006 period.
Public officials and demographers attribute the Black population decline to soaring housing costs and an ever increasing number of Blacks returning to family roots in the South.
It was a mixed picture for whites. The number of whites living in the Bronx dropped by 11 percent while the number living in Manhattan increased by 9 percent. The Hispanic population increased in most parts of the metropolitan area but Asians were the only ethnic group to increase their presence in all five New York City boroughs as well as in the metropolitan area which includes parts of Connecticut and New Jersey.
http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur36140.cfm