New York’s Staten Island — Italian Americans and Irish Americans dominated Staten Island’s environment for decades, making up almost half of the borough’s population at one point.
Although those two ethnic groups continue to have the biggest representation in the borough, their numbers have decreased over the last ten or more years, a trend that has been maintained in recently released U.S. Census Bureau data.
Tens of thousands of Italian and Irish Americans have either left the borough or passed away since 2010, the first year for which ancestry data is available, according to a comparison of demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates with historical data by Advance/SILive.com.
Italian Americans made up 33.7% and Irish Americans made up 14% of Staten Island’s total population in 2010, with 156,280 and 64,762 residents, respectively.
German Americans, who made up 5.5% of Staten Islanders, were the next closest group, demonstrating how much more numerous Italian Americans and Irish Americans were than any other ethnic group.
Since then, however, the borough has become more diversified, with Italian Americans and Irish Americans holding decreasing shares of the population, since both groups have lost tens of thousands of residents while the overall population has increased.
The number of Italian Americans residing on Staten Island decreased by approximately 25.5% from 156,280 in 2010 to 116,441 in 2023.
From 64,762 in 2010 to 45,508 in 2023, the number of Irish Americans declined at an even more pronounced rate of 29.7%.
Italian Americans now make up 23.6% of the population, down from 33.7%, and Irish-Americans make up 9.2% of the population, down from 14%, as a result of the decreases in each group and the increase in the overall number of Staten Islanders.
Who s taking their place?
Therefore, it begs the issue of who is responsible for the influx of new inhabitants if the main ethnic groups in the borough are falling while the general population is growing.
The U.S. Census Bureau data was reviewed by Advance/SILive.com last year to find shifting patterns in the ethnic makeup of Staten Island inhabitants.
The analysis used data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 and 2022 American Community Survey 5-year Estimates to indicate that the overall population of Staten Island increased by approximately 6.4% during the previous ten years, from 463,450 in 2010 to 492,925 in 2022.
Subsequent research revealed that several ethnic groups, the bulk of which are from Middle Eastern, African, and Eastern European nations, are seeing population growth significantly faster than the overall population.
According to research, the numbers of several of these groups have more than doubled or even tripled since 2010, while many still make up a relatively tiny fraction of the borough’s overall population.
Here are the ethnic groups whose numbers on Staten Island have increased by the largest proportion since 2010.
Ethiopian
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2010 population: 46
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2022 population: 206
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Percentage change: 347.8%
LATVIAN
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2010 population: 142
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2022 population: 621
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Percentage change: 337.3%
Israel
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2010 population: 759
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2022 population: 2,488
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Percentage change: 227.8%
The Liberarian
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2010 population: 532
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2022 population: 1,598
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Percentage change: 200.4%
Palestinian
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2010 population: 479
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2022 population: 1,339
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Percentage change: 179.5%
Iran
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2010 population: 171
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2022 population: 473
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Percentage change: 176.6%
Ghanaian
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2010 population: 250
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2022 population: 563
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Percentage change: 125.2%
Egyptian
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2010 population: 3,292
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2022 population: 7,155
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Percentage change: 117.3%
The Armenian
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2010 population: 311
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2022 population: 616
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Percentage change: 98.1%
Syrian
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2010 population: 584
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2022 population: 1,004
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Percentage change: 71.9%
Iranian
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2010 population: 4,836
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2022 population: 7,271
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Percentage change: 50.4%
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