What you should know
- New York City saw a significant population shift last year, with four of its five boroughs losing a higher percentage of people than almost any other major county in the United States, the US Census Bureau said Thursday.
- Data analysts from the Census Bureau point to migration as the main factor behind such significant changes in the population from 2020 to 2021.
- But not all counties have suffered population losses. The bureau found that at least 65% of metropolitan areas felt a population increase from 2020 to 2021.
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NEW YORK — New York City saw a significant population shift last year, with four of its five boroughs losing a higher percentage of people than almost any other major county in the United States, the New York City Census Bureau said Thursday. the United States.
Data analysts at the Census Bureau point to migration as the main factor behind such significant changes in population from 2020 to 2021. But not all counties have suffered population losses. The bureau found that at least 65% of metropolitan areas felt a population increase from 2020 to 2021.
The New York metropolitan area leads all others in population losses, according to census data. The combination of New York, Newark and Jersey City reflected a population loss of more than 385,000 people, almost double that of the Los Angeles, Long Beach and Anaheim region.
“The patterns we’ve seen in internal migration changed in 2021,” said Dr. Christine Hartley, deputy division chief for estimates and projections in the Census Bureau’s Population Division.
“Although over time we have seen a greater number of counties with a natural decline and net international migration continues to decline, in the last year, the contribution of domestic migration offset these trends, so there were actually more counties that grew in rather than lose population,” Hartley continued.
Breaking this trend was New York City. In a closer look at changing city population numbers by borough, Manhattan (New York County) had the largest percentage drop. According to census data, the island saw a 6.9% decline between April 2020 and July 2021.
However, Manhattan was not alone in the top 10 counties with the largest percentage decline. Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens and the Bronx were on that list, as was Hudson County in New Jersey. Hudson and Queens saw a 3.1% drop in population, while the Bronx saw a 3.2% decline and Brooklyn 3.5%.
Between that same 15-month period, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx also made up four of the 10 boroughs with the largest population decline in consecutive numbers, census data shows.
Manhattan ranked second with a drop of 117,375 residents. Brooklyn and Queens ranked fourth and fifth, respectively, losing 95,022 and 74,321 residents. A few places lower in eighth place is The Bronx, with a decrease of 47,706 residents.
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