Census Finally Agrees: NYC Has 8.25 Million People

Back in 2006, the city challenged the U.S. Census Bureau's claim that NYC's population was 8.168 million. The city's stance was that it was closer to 8.2 million - which also means more federal funding. Now, over a year later, the Census Bureau agreed and said that NYC's population is a whopping 8.250,567 - an all-time high!

This means the city will get an additional $77 million in federal money by 2010. Mayor Bloomberg hailed the news and said, "New York City sends far more money to Washington than we get back, but now we will at least not be shortchanged as a result of inaccuracies in Census Bureau population estimates. By analyzing and challenging the Census Bureau's findings, we are able to ensure that vital City programs receive the appropriate level of federal funding."

There are many ways the Census tracks population and here's how the city's population breaks down by borough:
Bronx: 1,371,353 (Census counted 9,880 less residents)
Brooklyn: 2,523,047 (Census counted 14,227 less)
Manhattan: 1,612,630 (Census counted 1,049 less)
Queens: 2,264,661 (Census counted 9,486 less)
Staten Island: 478,876 (Census counted 1,499 less)

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By Jen Chung in News on November 21, 2007 4:24 PM

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alpalp114

Something is funny in this math: the post states that the census had counted 8.168 million people, but have since revised their number to 8,250,567, or 82,567 more people.

But the borough by borough breakdown only totals an undercount of 36,141 people (1,499 + 9,486 + 1,049 + 14,227 + 9,880).

Anyway, I'm impressed that the city gets an extra $77 million for those extra 82,567 people. That's $932.57 per person -- thank you Uncle Sam!

Leon Freilich

WALL TO WALL TO WALL TO WALL

The Naked City's population

--It's now official--approaches

One hundred twenty-seven million

American Cockroaches.

MaiaW

Okay, I hate to be that annoying person, but I'm an editor for a living and it's bothering me...all those stats should be "fewer." You use "fewer" for discrete objects, including people! Less is for things like coffee, noise, etc. Okay, I feel better now :)

Snoopy

Wow! I guess.

Back in 1948 when the film "Naked City" came out there was a line "There are eight million stories in the Naked City; this has been one of them." -- Narrator.

Unless half of those people had two stories to tell I guess the city really hasn't grown that much. Actually ninety nine point nine hundreths of the eight million stories are just repeats. So who really cares.

Here's one. Woman "A" moves to New York, has seven kids, goes on welfare, oldest child sent to jail on his second felony charge, younger daughter (age 13) gets pregnant but doesn't know who the father is. Middle child who was an "honor" student gets shot and killed in a drug dispute, second oldest son gets college basketball scholarship but due to selling drugs to some freshman hotties gets busted and ends up rooming with older brother. Seeing most of her brood is falling out of the welfare payment system woman "A" decides to start breeding again at the age of 29. Meanwhile her youngest son gets signed to a NFL team and buys black Escalades for the remaining family members, as well as a pimped out house in a MacMansion suburb just to piss off the neighbors.

It's totally amazing that over the past 59 years the population has grown by only 250,000 people. Where is the affordable housing for all those people?