Re: The other Pakis
Here is some info from the Asian American Federation of New York..
Pakistanis are poorer and less literate and live in more crowded households than other city residents.
According to the findings, based on 2000 census data:
From 1990 to 2000, New York City's Pakistani American population grew from 13,501 to 34,310, or 154 percent -- surpassing increases of 9 percent for the city overall and 71 percent for all Asian New Yorkers.
More than one-third (34 percent) of Pakistani American children and more than one-fourth (28 percent) of all Pakistanis in New York City lived in poverty -- exceeding 30 percent of all children and 21 percent of all residents in the city.
Pakistani New Yorkers' per capita income was $11,992 -- about half of the city-wide figure ($22,402).
Two out of 3 elderly Pakistani Americans (67 percent) and nearly half (48 percent) of all Pakistani adults in New York City had "Limited English Proficiency" -- markedly surpassing 27 percent of all elderly New Yorkers and 24 percent of all city adults.
New York City's Pakistani American households averaged 4.1 occupants --far more than 2.6 city-wide.
Almost one-third (32 percent) of Pakistani American adults in New York City had not finished high school -- compared with 28 percent of all adult New Yorkers.
With a 79 percent foreign-born population, New York City's Pakistani Americans were more than twice as likely to be immigrants as city residents overall, of whom 36 percent were born outside the United States.
Most Pakistani Americans in the city lived in Queens, with 45 percent of Pakistani New Yorkers (15,604 people), or Brooklyn, with 41 percent (14,221). The rest of the city's Pakistani population was distributed about evenly among the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island.