NYC Adults by Citizenship and Nativity, 1990–2024: Native-Born, Naturalized and Non-Citizen Adults, with the Naturalized Share by Borough
Aggregate statistics from the article “A third of New York City's adult citizens are naturalized, nearly twice the share of 1990, and the share has held there since about 2012”
No synthetic records. Published or computed tabulations containing no person-level records.
- Records
- Aggregate statistics
- Place
- New York City
- Version
- 1.0,
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0; code MIT
Naturalized citizens were 32% of the city's adult citizens in 2024, between 31% and 33% in every yearly estimate from 2012 through 2024, after nearly doubling from 1990's share.
What it shows
The article's own data file, aggregate statistics cut to what it analyses, and the script that computes every figure in it. Computed from: Census 1990 and 2000 PUMS and ACS one-year PUMS 2006-2024 (citizenship, birthplace, age, borough; country of birth, year of naturalization and year of entry for 2024; 2005 left out); the Census Bureau's population estimates for the boroughs, revised to the 2020 census; ACS 2024 Table B05003; CPS basic monthly files, January to September 2025 and 2026; the Court of Appeals' decision in Matter of Fossella v Adams (20 March 2025); the NYC Board of Elections' voter qualifications, 2026 registration deadline and 2025 annual report; the Census Bureau's 2026 ACS update.
Files
Each file's columns are under Columns below and in data_dictionary.csv.
| File | Rows | Size | What it holds |
|---|---|---|---|
data.csv |
218 | 22 KB | The data |
analysis.py |
42 KB | The analysis script |
Columns
data.csv: The data (8 columns)
The aggregate statistics the article's figures are computed from.
table, year, group, area, value, unit, moe90, moe90_unit. The article and its script
define each one.
Licence and credit
Data CC BY 4.0; the script MIT. Records we counted from government files stay under their publishers' terms. Public-use microdata are disclosure-protected records derived from survey responses, published by the issuing agency so that no respondent can be identified; synthetic records are generated by SparkyData and correspond to no real person, household or address. Neither may be used to identify anyone.
Credit it as:
SparkyData (2026). NYC Adults by Citizenship and Nativity, 1990–2024: Native-Born, Naturalized and Non-Citizen Adults, with the Naturalized Share by Borough (version 1.0). Data CC BY 4.0.
https://sparkydata.dev/data/nyc-adult-citizens-by-nativity-and-citizenshipSources (12)
- U.S. Census Bureau — 1990 and 2000 census public-use microdata samples (5%), The 1990 sample (the Bureau's 1990_PUMS_A folder) and the 2000 sample, New York
- U.S. Census Bureau — American Community Survey one-year public-use microdata (2006-2024), The 2006-2024 one-year files; 2005 left out (no group quarters); 2020 is the Bureau's experimental release
- U.S. Census Bureau — Population Estimates Program, intercensal estimates for the counties (2000-2020) and Vintage 2025, 1 July estimates 1990-2025, revised to the 2020 census
- U.S. Census Bureau — ACS 2024 one-year Table B05003, Sex by Age by Nativity and Citizenship Status (New York City), 2024 one-year; retrieved 18 October 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau — Comparing 2006 American Community Survey Data, Read 19 October 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau — American Community Survey news: 2026 updates, and the public-use microdata folder, Update of 22 October 2026 and the folder as listed, both read 26 October 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics — Current Population Survey, basic monthly public-use files, January to September 2025 and January to September 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau — Current Population Survey, November Voting and Registration Supplement, The November 2026 supplement, when the Census Bureau publishes it
- New York State Court of Appeals — Matter of Fossella v Adams, 2025 NY Slip Op 01668, Decided 20 March 2025
- NYC Board of Elections — Voter Qualifications, Read 18 October 2026
- NYC Board of Elections — Registration Deadlines, Read 18 October 2026
- Board of Elections in the City of New York — Annual Report 2025, Calendar 2025; retrieved 18 October 2026
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