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Demographics of Queens

Queens' population has recently been growing faster than Brooklyn's. Key: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
Queens grew at a faster rate than Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx from 1990 to 2000. (Click on image to see full key and data.)

The demographics of Queens, the second-most populous borough in New York City, are highly diverse. No racial or ethnic group holds a majority in the borough.

Coterminous with Queens County since 1899, the borough of Queens is the second-largest in population (behind Brooklyn), with approximately 2.3 million residents in 2013, approximately 48% of them foreign-born;[1] Queens County is also the second most populous county in New York State, behind neighboring Kings County, which is coterminous with the borough of Brooklyn. Queens is the fourth-most densely populated county among New York City's boroughs, as well as in the United States; and if each New York City borough were an independent city, Queens would also be the nation's fourth most populous city, after Los Angeles, Chicago, and Brooklyn.[2] Some say Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world.[3]

  1. ^ "Queens County (Queens Borough), New York State & County QuickFacts". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
  2. ^ "Is Queens a Suburb of New York or Part of the City?". Queens.about.com. 2009-11-03. Archived from the original on May 14, 2017. Retrieved June 23, 2014.
  3. ^ "Queens, New York". Archived from the original on 2019-05-18. Retrieved 2019-05-18.

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