New York City boroughs

As the city proper with the nation’s largest Chinese American population by a wide margin, with an estimated 522,619 individuals in 2012, and as the primary destination for new Chinese immigrants, New York City is subdivided into official municipal boroughs, which themselves are home to significant Chinese populations, with Brooklyn and Queens, adjacently located on Long Island, leading the fastest growth. (Note that The Bronx, with 6,891 Chinese Americans, comprising a sub-threshold 0.5% of the borough’s population, is not listed in this table.)