Great. As if this city wasn't crowded enough, now the bean counters at the U.S. Census Department have, with the wave of a hand, shrunk the city by two square miles. Couldn't they have just lopped a little off the Meatpacking District and Murray Hill? more ›

Uh-oh—did this woman who became the laughingstock of China because of her extremely specific demands for a potential husband realize that moving to New York City for her soul mate search might be ill advised? It seems the Big Apple is actually the United States' top city for unmarried women. WNYC looked at census data and spells it out: "34.8 percent of New York women 15 and over were never married. At the other end of the never married women spectrum was Wyoming, where only 20.7 percent of women have never married. Within New York City those statistics are higher than the state-wide. Never-married women make up 41.7 percent of the population, up from 38.7 percent in 2006. For men, the figures are even more dramatic: 46.7 percent have never been married, up from 43.4 percent in 2006." Singletons, UNITE! more ›

Yesterday, we found out that billionaires like Tea Party fan David Koch and Mayor Bloomberg are getting more billionaire-y. Now the U.S. Census reveals that one in five New York City residents lives in poverty. The NY Times reports, "From 2009 to 2010, 75,000 city residents were pushed into poverty, increasing the poor population to more than 1.6 million and raising the percentage of New Yorkers living below the official federal poverty line to 20.1 percent, the highest level since 2000. The 1.4-percentage-point annual increase in the poverty rate appeared to be the largest jump in nearly two decades." more ›

Today the Census Bureau released its report [pdf] on income, poverty and health insurance, and doggone it, would you believe these statistics are not specifically too good? According to the most recent census numbers from 2010, approximately 1 in 6 Americans are impoverished. That's 46.2 million people, up from 43.6 million in 2009—15.1 percent of the population were below the poverty line last year, the highest percentage since 1983. But hey, that was last year. We've still got more than three months left in 2011 to turn this thing around! more ›

Thinking of getting married young and then getting divorced? You really ought to move to the South or West. Cause up here we apparently like to wait for both of those things and down there? Not so much. This news comes courtesy of the U.S. Census, always good for some interesting (if sometimes questionable) data. more ›

There is officially zero excuse for eating fast food in New York City: the number of restaurants has increased by 42 percent, from 5,610 to 7,966 between 1999 and 2009. The Lower East Side had the biggest growth of restaurants, at 233 sit-down joints compared to Williamsburg's 130 and Park Slope's 108. Do restaurants and ironic mustaches grow together? more ›

Oh, it's ON! As promised, Mayor Bloomberg has officially issued a challenge to the U.S. Census Bureau, and, after smacking his gloves in the face of his arch-nemesis at the Census, Dr. Robert Groves, the two will face off with pistols at dawn. (Don't worry about Bloomberg, Groves will probably miscount the bullets when he loads his gun.) At stake is some $7 billion in federal funding over the next decade, which would be cut back if the city fails to prove that the Census Bureau grossly miscounted in Brooklyn and Queens. In Jackson Heights, for instance, the Census found that the population decreased by nearly 5,200 people, or by about five percent, between the years 2000 and 2010. more ›

While just last week we reported that Manhattan's Chinatown was losing its Chinese edge to Chinatowns in Flushing and Sunset Park, it turns out that we were forgetting one other nouveau Chinese hotspot...Harlem. more ›

Manhattan's Chinatown might want to think of a new name, because it's not actually home to the most Chinese people anymore, according to new city data. If you want to get in with the Chinese crowd these days, Sunset Park and Flushing are where it's at. more ›

Earlier this year we scoffed at the third of New Yorkers under 30 who dream of getting out of the state in the next year—but maybe we shouldn't have? According to a new analysis of census data from the Empire Center for New York State Policy, for the past two decades New York's net population loss due to domestic migration (i.e. people moving elsewhere in the country) was the highest in the United States. Luckily for us, however, lots of babies, fewer deaths and an ongoing immigration boom helped keep the numbers steady. more ›

Despite news that the city's 2010 census results may have been slightly botched, there is now data [pdf] to support the notion that Park Slope is whiter than a Saltine marshmallow sandwich. F'd In Park Slope crunches the numbers to determine that "while the city overall saw a 2.8% decline in white residents, in Park Slope whities now account for 66% of the local populace." So whatever the opposite of "white flight" is (Cycle Bar-ization? Strollerfication?) that seems to be what's going down. Does this mean that public school class photos like these are a thing of the past? more ›

From the moment the results of the 2010 Census were released New York City was questioning how exactly the Big Apple, which didn't do so well, was counted. Surprising nobody, within a week it was announced that the city would formally contest the count. But with it being illegal to go out and actually recount who lives where—specifically in some areas of Queens that were suspiciously devoid of life in the Census—the city would need to prove the lower numbers are due to a technical error. And now it looks like that may be possible. more ›

There were a few big take-aways from the latest controversial Census data: even though non-white Hispanics are now a minority, they are still pushing other ethnicities to the outer boroughs; and that NYC has become the most ethnically diverse city, reflecting a trend throughout the whole country. So now diversity is here to stay, whether some people like it or not: “Some of the residents here were so concerned about blacks moving in, they didn’t even notice the influx of Asians,” said Nick Venezia, manager of Ben Bay Realty Co. in Brooklyn. more ›

City officials were a bit confused this year when the Census came back and showed the city had grown by just 166,855, so of course Mayor Bloomberg demanded a recount. Some of the most suspicious data showed that neighborhoods like the West Village and Upper East Side lost housing units; City Councilwoman Gail Brewer told the Daily News, "That's crazy. It doesn't make any sense to me, like the rest of the census." However, it might just be the doorman's fault. You're off the hook, hipsters! more ›

An analysis of census data culled in 2009 suggests that cycling in NYC has declined slightly compared to 2007, contradicting Department of Transportation studies that show a cycling boom. In their annual State of New York report, NYU's Furman Center examined census data to determine that only 0.6 percent of New Yorkers use bikes as their preferred mode of transportation [pdf]. This flies in the face of DOT numbers that show the number of cyclists doubling over the past four years [pdf]. It also flies in the face of what we see with our eyes when we're riding all over NYC, from South Brooklyn to Washington Heights. So what the deuce is going on here? more ›

Besides pissing New York officials off, guess what else the latest Census figures are doing? They are showing that non-Hispanic whites are now a minority in the NYC-area, which the NY Times reports, is the "first major metropolitan area" to show such a shift beyond the South or the West. However, it's unclear if these findings will change when NYC demands a recount! more ›

While Senator Schumer was doing his Sunday press thang and blasting the U.S. Census count for NYC, Mayor Bloomberg, fresh from his turn as Spider-Mike, announced that the City is going to formally contest the count. "We believe that errors have occurred in putting together the Census results for Brooklyn and Queens," he said in a release. "It seems evident to us that something incongruous happened in the Census count in these two boroughs." more ›

Recount! According to the 2010 Census data, New York's population grew by just 166,855 over the past decade to 8.175 million. But a previous Census estimate put the city's population at 8.3 million, and Senator Chuck Schumer thinks someone fudged the numbers. "These numbers cry out for investigation," he said. "I'm going to put a lot of pressure on them to do it. For the census director to just shrug his shoulders ... isn't good enough." more ›

In 1995 the Department of Education (then the Board of Education) started a program called the Specialized High Schools Institute with the goal of getting more black and Hispanic students into the city's top-tier specialized high schools (i.e. Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech). But it isn't quite working out the way it was expected to. more ›

The News is spending their blizzard day locked inside their offices crunching the census numbers, and they've come to some conclusions: Manhattan is losing its diversity, and new white residents in Harlem feel that blacks don't like them. Overall, Manhattan's population has increased by five percent since 2000, and they credit that to the white population rising by an estimated 11 percent to around 928,000 in the past decade, while the number of blacks dropped by six percent, to less than 250,000, and the Hispanic populations dropped four percent, to just under 400,000. more ›

In the latest played out "___ is the New ___" headline, the Brooklyn Paper declares: Bushwick is the New Williamsburg, which of course means next year's headline will read: Ridgewood is the New Bushwick. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. more ›

We learned a little from the census results earlier today, and now the NY Post breaks it all down in to one depressing factoid: New Yorkers have the longest average commute in all the nation. Especially you guys in Staten Island and Queens. Here we go: more ›

New York City might not be smart in the eyes of Portfolio.com but we think they need to get their vision checked. Urbanophile recently looked at the same census data as Portfolio (who ranked us #36 in brains) and found something totally different. When you look at the density per square mile of those with college and graduate degrees New York comes in an easy second behind San Francisco and way ahead of Boston. And we'll be ahead of SF soon enough if current trends continue. more ›

The Census Bureau will reportedly announce later this month that New York’s 29-member Congressional delegation will lose at least one seat, shrinking it to the smallest numerically it has been since 1810. At that time, New York held 27 of the country's 181 Congressional seats. The state could lose up to two seats, and Florida looks to gain two. However, one sociologist said, "If it loses two seats, then the older suburbs downstate will also lose, while New York City and the fast-growing outer ring suburbs will more likely hold their own." This is our time! Gay marriage and mosques for ALL AMERICANS! more ›

Earlier this year, more than a few New Yorkers were confused and upset why the 2010 Census form didn't offer a racial category for Hispanic or Latino (the Census offer a Hispanic question for ethnicity). Now, NY1 reports that NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein sent an email to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan saying that NYC school officials don't really want to classify students by race, per federal law, "[It] may well be problematic and confusing for many of our community members, particularly Hispanics, and could create a difficult public debate about the collection of this information." more ›