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Reform of NYC Public Schools, 1896


Population of New York City in the years 1860-1900

Population of New York City (Manhattan and the Bronx) in the years 1860-1900. It includes numbers for the total native population (those born in the United States), the total foreign-born population (those residents born outside the United States), and the total overall population of those two boroughs.

 

Population

Year

Native Born

Foreign Born

Total

1860

429,952

383,717

805,658

1870

532,198

419,094

942,292

1880

727,629

478,670

1,206,299

1890

875,358

639,943

1,515,301

1900

1,199,716

850,884

2,050,600