Data recently collected from the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau demonstrates the economics and demographics that characterize various neighborhoods in NYC, revealing distinctive information about different areas in the world’s most populated city.
The data published on Tuesday by the Department of City Planning at its online Population FactFinder was “another example of how we’re celebrating the melting pot that makes New York New York,” the department’s Director Dan Garodnick said in a statement. The FactFinder and an accompanying population measuring technology MapViewer present economic and demographic information about the city, along with data about racial and ethnic groups across the five boroughs.
For example, the neighborhood’s with the highest median household income is Tribeca-City Center, at $200,000, followed by Financial District-Battery Park City and Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, where the median is around $195,000. Park Slope ($192,000) and Brooklyn Heights ($180,000) are the two neighborhoods not located in Manhattan that made the top 10 list.
Among the 10 neighborhoods with the lowest household income, nine are located in the Bronx, with the exception being Chinatown-Two Bridges in Manhattan. Melrose in the Bronx has the lowest household income of any neighborhood in the city, at $28,000.
The city’s youngest neighborhood is South Williamsburg, where the median age is 19.5 years old. Whereas the oldest neighborhood is Bay Terrace-Clearview (just off the Throgs Neck Bridge), with the age of the average resident being nearly 51.
In terms of racial/ethnic demographics, Jamaica has more Bangladeshi residents than any other neighborhood and South Ozone Park is the city’s largest Guyanese neighborhood.
According to the department’s findings, Jackson Heights has the most Latino residents of any neighborhood at 54,300. More Dominicans live in Washington Heights than any other neighborhood, and they are the largest Latino group in the Bronx and Manhattan, while Ecuadorians are the largest Latino group in Queens. In Brooklyn and Staten Island, Puerto Ricans are the largest Latino group.
Canarsie has more Black residents than any other neighborhood, with 71,500, while Tottenville-Charleston on Staten Island has the fewest, with 136.
The densest neighborhood in the five boroughs is Yorkville in Manhattan, with 267 residents per acre. Meanwhile, the least densely populated neighborhood is Tottenville-Charleston in Staten Island, with just six people per acre. The citywide median is 46 people per acre.
More information about NYC’s neighborhoods and people can be discovered at the DCP’s FactFinder or MapViewer websites.
