Manhattan’s population rebound leads nation, driven largely by immigration
The borough grew by more than 17,000 residents from 2021 to 2022, while the number of residents in Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx again declined.
By SAHALIE DONALDSON | MARCH 30, 2023
The majority of Manhattan’s population growth from 2021 to 2022 came from immigrants – a trend that may continue in part given the sweeping number of asylum-seekers who’ve arrived in the city since spring.
New population estimates released today from the U.S Census Bureau indicated that the exodus of people who fled the city in recent years seems to be inching back toward pre-pandemic rates. Manhattan – fueled in large part by nearly 11,000 international arrivals – added 17,472 residents between July 1, 2022 and the same date a year prior. While the borough’s population count is still well below the 1.6 million city dwellers in 2019, nearly 100,000 people left Manhattan the year before. All in all, the increase marks the biggest improvement in the nation, marking Manhattan as a national outlier, according to The New York Times. Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx in particular continued to hemorrhage residents, although not as drastically as the year prior.
Theodore Moore, vice president of policy at the New York Immigration Coalition, said that even though the report only included numbers up until July – roughly a month before Texas started sending buses carrying asylum-seekers in the city – newly arrived migrants are still reflected in part in Manhattan’s growth. That’s also the case in some other parts of the state like Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse.
https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2023/03/manhattans-population-rebound-leads-nation-driven-largely-immigration/384638/
