Yesterday, I was reading Bob Yaro's article about NYC's incredible population growth over the last 15 years, which would explain (at least partially) the booming real estate development these last couple of years and all the scrambling to build condos, mixed-income, affordable housing, etc. (Robert Yaro is the president of the Regional Plan Association). Today, I'm looking at a U.S. Census Bureau report (pdf), which says that the New York metropolitan region (New York City, Northern New Jersey and Long Island) lost on average 210,000 people per year from 2000 to 2004, making it the region with the lowest in-migration among all regions in the U.S. (Florida is the highest).
What gives?
4.21.2006
Population boom...or is it decline?
Posted by Shin-pei at 12:04 PM
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Read the Census figures closely. (Not that I did, but the Sun seems to have.) The Census figures only tally migration within the United States. Therefore, New York City doesn't lose population, despite its net out-flux of people to other parts of the United States, because of a still greater influx of people from outside the country.
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