Foreign-born
Population in Queens
Top 40 Countries of Birth
| Total Queens Population | 2,229,379 | 100.00% |
| Total
Foreign-born | 1,028,339 | 46.13% |
| China | 102,902 | 4.62% |
| Guyana | 66,918 | 3.00% |
| Ecuador | 66,643 | 2.99% |
| Colombia | 66,192 | 2.97% |
| Dominican Republic | 59,444 | 2.67% |
| Korea | 51,556 | 2.31% |
| India | 48,132 | 2.16% |
| Jamaica | 47,145 | 2.11% |
| Mexico | 37,667 | 1.69% |
| Philippines | 27,628 | 1.24% |
| Haiti | 27,212 | 1.22% |
| Bangladesh | 26,589 | 1.19% |
| Trinidad & Tobago | 26,255 | 1.18% |
| Italy | 24,391 | 1.09% |
| Poland | 21,205 | 0.95% |
| Greece | 20,304 | 0.91% |
| Peru | 18,697 | 0.84% |
| Pakistan | 17,314 | 0.78% |
| Russia | 17,232 | 0.77% |
| El Salvador | 15,478 | 0.69% |
| Romania | 11,729 | 0.53% |
| Ireland | 10,082 | 0.45% |
| Germany | 8,856 | 0.40% |
| Cuba | 8,580 | 0.38% |
| Guatemala | 7,979 | 0.36% |
| Former Yugoslavia | 7,443 | 0.33% |
| Brazil | 7,208 | 0.32% |
| Ukraine | 6,994 | 0.31% |
| United Kingdom | 6,020 | 0.27% |
| Honduras | 6,019 | 0.27% |
| Egypt | 5,314 | 0.24% |
| Japan | 4,975 | 0.22% |
| Vietnam | 4,882 | 0.22% |
| Israel | 4,768 | 0.21% |
| Barbados | 4,466 | 0.20% |
| Panama | 4,457 | 0.20% |
| Nigeria | 3,596 | 0.16% |
| Canada | 3,045 | 0.14% |
| France | 2,641 | 0.12% |
| Ghana | 1,323 | 0.06% |
| All Other Countries | 119,058 | 5.34% |
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| | Queens
Population (5 years old & over)
Speaking Other than English | Total
Queens Population 5 and over | 2,088,870 | 100.00% | |
Speak only English | 968,415 | 46.36% | | Total
who speak other than English | 1,120,455 | 53.64% | |
Speak English "very well" | 540,087 | 25.86% | |
Speak English "well" | 294,622 | 14.10% | |
Speak English "not well" | 213,985 | 10.24% | |
Speak English "not at all" | 71,761 | 3.44% | | Spanish
Or Spanish Creole | 485,046 | 23.22% | | Chinese | 126,904 | 6.08% | | Korean | 57,447 | 2.75% | | Italian | 44,411 | 2.13% | | Greek | 39,418 | 1.89% | | Russian | 36,517 | 1.75% | | Tagalog | 26,436 | 1.27% | | French
(Incl. Patois, Cajun) | 25,048 | 1.20% | | French
Creole | 21,682 | 1.04% | | Polish | 20,883 | 1.00% | | Urdu | 17,837 | 0.85% | | Hindi | 17,671 | 0.85% | | Arabic | 12,504 | 0.60% | | German | 12,054 | 0.58% | | Serbo-Croatian | 11,767 | 0.56% | | Hebrew | 10,560 | 0.51% | | Portuguese
Or Portuguese Creole | 9,479 | 0.45% | | Persian | 7,865 | 0.38% | | African
Languages | 7,026 | 0.34% | | Gujarathi | 7,025 | 0.34% | | Yiddish | 5,472 | 0.26% | | Japanese | 5,300 | 0.25% | | Hungarian | 4,753 | 0.23% | | Armenian | 3,531 | 0.17% | | Vietnamese | 3,361 | 0.16% | | Thai | 2,794 | 0.13% | | Scandinavian
Languages | 438 | 0.02% | | Mon-Khmer,
Cambodian | 59 | 0.00% | | Laotian | 36 | 0.00% | | Navajo | 11 | 0.00% | | All
Other Languages | 97,120 | 4.65% |
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Source:
U.S. Census Bureau, 2000
Percentages are based on total population
Queens
Population Comparisons 1990 - 2000 (PDF) |
