NYC lost 5.3% of its population — nearly a half-million people — since COVID, with most heading Sout

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NYC lost 5.3% of its population — nearly a half-million people — since COVID, with most heading South

By Katherine Donlevy
May 18, 2023

New York City’s population is continuing to flounder in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic — and most city-dwellers have flocked to southern states, new data shows.

The US Census Bureau revealed Thursday that the Big Apple’s population is 5.3% lower than it was when the novel coronavirus first hit the country. Over 468,200 people fled the city between April 2020 and July 2022.

Only three other major cities suffered worse population losses — San Francisco lost a baffling 7.5% of its citizens, while Revere in Massachusetts lost 5.9% and Louisiana’s Lake Charles lost 6.9%.

New York City suffered a massive flight in the first year of the pandemic, with nearly 281,700 people ditching the five boroughs. The flight trickled in 2021, with 123,100 people moving out.

“New York remained the nation’s largest city, despite its recent population decline. At 8.3 million, its population was more than twice that of the next largest city, Los Angeles, with a population of nearly 4 million,” said Crystal Delbé, a statistician in the Census Bureau’s Population Division.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/05/18/nyc-lost-5-3-of-its-population-nearly-a-half-million-people-since-covid-with-most-heading-south/