![]() ![]() Now, about one in five residents are non-Hispanic Black, compared with one in four in 2000, according to the latest census data. The city’s Black population has declined by nearly 200,000 people in the past two decades, or about 9 percent. The decline mirrored a national trend of younger Black professionals, middle-class families and retirees leaving cities in the Northeast and Midwest for the South. ![]() From 2010 to 2020, a decade during which the city’s population showed a surprising increase led by a surge in Asian and Hispanic residents, the number of Black residents decreased. The Rodneys are part of an exodus of Black residents from New York City. While the white population has stayed about the same, the Asian population grew by 34 percent and Hispanic population grew by 7 percent, according to the data. Citywide, white residents now make up only about 31 percent of the population, according to census data, Hispanic residents 28 percent and Asian residents nearly 16 percent. ![]()
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