A Statistical Guide To The People You'll Meet In New York City

The average New Yorker travels 39.2 minutes to work

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Source: US Census Bureau

Just over half take the subway or a bus every morning

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Source: US Census Bureau

And a quarter drive to work

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Source: US Census Bureau

Despite being a finance hub, only 3 percent of locals work in finance or insurance

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Source: US Census Bureau

About the same number cooks pizzas, pours drinks or works other hospitality jobs

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Source: US Census Bureau

One in every hundred people works in the arts

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Source: US Census Bureau

The same goes for real estate

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Source: US Census Bureau

One third has a bachelor's degree hanging on the wall

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Source: US Census Bureau

18.6 percent live in poverty

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Source: US Census Bureau

All those accents? One in five New Yorkers was born outside the US

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Source: US Census Bureau

Nearly half will speak a second language, other than English

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Source: US Census Bureau

One in five is under 18

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Source: US Census Bureau

And 12.1 percent are over 65

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Source: US Census Bureau

More than half live in an owner-occupied home

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Source: US Census Bureau

And one in 200 doesn't have a home

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Source: US Census Bureau

Just under half the city is white, and a quarter black

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Source: US Census Bureau

More than one in four are Hispanic, and one in 10 Asian

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Source: US Census Bureau

About 22% are overweight

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Source: Reuters

6 percent of the people in New York City at any given time are tourists

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Based on data from New York's tourist bureau: Last year there were 39 million domestic tourists, who stayed for 3 nights on average, and 10 million international tourists, who stayed 7 days on average, which amounts to 512,000 tourists per day in a city of 8 million.

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