Map: Where Foreign-Born New Yorkers Live

Feb. 6, 2016, 11:15 a.m.

The NYU Furman Center released a map showing where foreign-born New Yorkers from the top 10 countries of origin congregate.

Thirty-seven percent of New Yorkers were born outside the United States, which is a statistic that might terrify the average Trump supporter but explains why this city has such a spectacular culinary scene. But though the immigrant population is sprinkled throughout the five boroughs—well, at least throughout four of them—immigrants tend to establish themselves in specific clusters, creating self-contained ethnic micro-neighborhoods all over town. To illustrate this, the NYU Furman Center released a map this week showing where foreign-born New Yorkers from the top 10 countries of origin congregate, and the results will...probably not surprise you:

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As you can see, natives of the Dominican Republic make up a pretty good chunk of the city's immigrant population, a fact Untapped Cities attributes to that country's period of political instability in the mid-20th century. Washington Heights, the South Bronx and Inwood have hefty Dominican populations. Immigrants from China, who make up the second biggest group, still cluster in Chinatown, as well as in Sunset Park and Bensonhurst in Brooklyn and in Flushing in Queens.

Other countries of origin of note include Mexico, Jamaica, Guyana, and Ecuador, with Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, India and Bangladesh rounding out the top ten. Queens looks like it boasts the biggest melting pot of all the boroughs, followed by Brooklyn. Staten Island, on the other hand, does not seem all that diverse on the map, though a good portion of the borough's immigrants come from European countries like Italy, Russia and Poland.