With 6 million people (over a quarter of the population) born outside of the United States, the New York metropolitan region is a region of immigrants. While we tend to think about immigrants as concentrated in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, there are large immigrant communities throughout the region, from Manhattan’s Chinatown to Brentwood -- Long Island’s Central American enclave to many South Asian neighborhoods across New Jersey.

This map shows communities at the census tract level with high (over 40%) shares of foreign born residents and identifies the largest region of origin. Tracts with lower shares of foreign born residents display the US born race or ethnic group with the largest population share.

Data source: American Community Survey 2014 5 Year Estimates.