Like many neighborhoods in New York City, Bushwick is a community of immigrants. Recent data from the American Community Survey estimates that more than one-third of Bushwick residents – or 47,000 people – are born outside the U.S.

Bushwick’s largest immigrant groups are Dominicans (12,000 residents), Mexicans (8,600 residents), and Ecuadorians (7,900 residents), accounting for 26 percent, 18 percent, and 16 percent of the neighborhood’s foreign-born population, respectively. About two-thirds of Bushwick’s foreign-born population are non-citizens.