Population Drops Slightly in Brooklyn
NY Post: It may not feel like it on Atlantic Avenue or Queens Boulevard, but Brooklyn and Queens actually shed population last year while the rest of the city saw miniscule growth, according to the new projections released yesterday by the U.S. Census Bureau. All told, the city’s overall population last year stood at 8.1…
NY Post: It may not feel like it on Atlantic Avenue or Queens Boulevard, but Brooklyn and Queens actually shed population last year while the rest of the city saw miniscule growth, according to the new projections released yesterday by the U.S. Census Bureau. All told, the city’s overall population last year stood at 8.1 million, down 5,500 people, or just 0.07 percent, from 2003, according to the latest annual estimates. The 0.32 decline percent in Brooklyn and 0.31 percent fall in Queens was in contrast to gains in Manhattan (0.37 percent), The Bronx (0.06 percent) and Staten Island (0.60 percent). Meanwhile, the city’s soaring housing prices may have sent people scrambling for better deals in the far suburbs.
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the city is contesting the census findings, saying brooklyn and queens have huge numbers of immigrants, both legal and illegal, that are difficult to track.
I would think the number of people moving into and out of the housing projects of brooklyn are a big factor too.
this is pretty meaningless, the census has to do these estimates, they need an exact number in order to set federal funding levels for some programs, so they do them, but .07% is a rounding error.
here’s a link for anyone interested:
dept. of city planning, population division
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dcp/html/census/popdiv.html
Not just families out and single/couples in, but MULTIFAMILIES out and single family homes in. People are taking properties that used to be SROs and 3 or 4 families and taking most of the space for themselves. I think the population of Brooklyn will swing back up soon with all these condos and apartments going up, and the shells and abandoned properties filling up.
That’s really interesting, especially because a growing population and increased immigration are factors often cited as justification of the currently high RE prices.
The article did mention that it is difficult to track immigration, I wonder what the degree of error is in this. My guess is it has to be a few % so it’s difficult to say if this study means anything significant.
What would also be interesting to understand is the number of people per housing unit. For instance, a family of 4 could move to the suburbs and be replaced by a couple w/out children. The same number of housing units are used but the population drops. I think this is very common in gentrifying neighborhoods, families out, singles and couples in.