Asians in New York City

Asians in New York City are residents of New York City of Asian descent or origin. New York City is home to the largest Asian American community of any city in the United States and the Asian diaspora of any city in the world; while the New York metropolitan area is home to the largest Asian population outside of Asia, at 2.6 million.

Population

New York City alone, according to the 2010 census, has now become home to more than one million Asian Americans, greater than the combined totals of San Francisco and Los Angeles. New York contains the highest total Asian population of any U.S. city proper, while the New York metropolitan area is home to the largest Asian population outside of Asia, at 2.6 million. The fastest-growing Asian neighborhood in New York City is Long Island City, Queens.

Chinese New Yorkers

In 2020, approximately 9% of New York City's population was of Chinese ethnicity, with approximately 80 percent of Chinese New Yorkers living in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn alone, and over 90% living in Queens, Brooklyn, and/or Manhattan. New York City itself contains by far the highest ethnic Chinese population of any individual city outside Asia, estimated at 628,763 as of 2017, with approximately 925,000 in the New York metropolitan area as of 2024. Much of the Chinese community lives in Chinatown, Brooklyn; Chinatown, Manhattan; Flushing, Queens; Long Island City, Queens; Sunset Park, Brooklyn; and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. In September 2023, New York State made Lunar New Year a mandatory public school holiday.

South Asian New Yorkers

Indian and Indian Americans comprise the largest American municipal South Asian diaspora, comprising 2.4% of the city's population, with Bangladeshi and Bangladeshi Americans and people of Pakistani heritage at 0.7% and 0.5%, respectively.