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Manhattan regains 17K people after pandemic migration

New York County notches population gains as state weighs lagging development

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Manhattan made up the most ground among New York City locales after pandemic-era migration. 

For the 12-month period ending in July 2022, the county encompassing Manhattan gained more than 17,000 residents, according to U.S. Census Bureau population estimates reported by the Associated Press. The figure is a marked reversal from the 12 months prior, when the county lost 111,000 residents.

While Manhattan’s population is turning around, some of the outer boroughs’ head counts are shrinking. The three counties encompassing Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx each lost between 40,000 and 50,000 residents, some of the biggest declines in the country.

“This is still not really a COVID recovery year,” CUNY sociology professor emeritus Andrew Beveridge told the AP. “It’s only sort of a recovery.”

The city’s population estimates come with the backdrop of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plans to boost housing development in the Empire State, which has fallen behind population growth in the last decade. 

New York City’s population rose 4.25 percent (or more than 350,000 people) over the past decade, but housing units increased at less than half that pace — up just 2 percent from 3.52 million units in 2010 to 3.59 million in 2020, The Real Deal previously reported. 

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New York County as restrictions eased, even with rents soaring across the country. Seattle’s King County, Dallas County in Texas and Miami-Dade County in Florida all made gains, buoyed by international immigrants.

None had the biggest surge in population, though. That distinction belonged to Maricopa County in Arizona, home to Phoenix, which welcomed 57,000 residents during the 12-month period.

Some of the counties comparable to New York County lost residents. Los Angeles County lost the most residents, surrendering more than 90,000 over those 12 months. Trailing right behind the California locale was Cook County in Illinois, home of Chicago.

Several Bay Area counties also saw population declines, though they paled in comparison to the outflows of the pandemic’s first full year.

The data from the Census Bureau, which looked at patterns in migration and immigration patterns on top of births and deaths, are one estimate among multiple ways to try and track population movements in the United States, such as change-of-address data.

— Holden Walter-Warner

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