More people have left Manhattan during the pandemic than any other county in the US

The Big Apple's population plummeted during the COVID-24 pandemic, with Manhattan experiencing the largest population decline of any U.S. county, according to dismal census data released March 19. New York Post.

Between July 2020 and July 2021, New York County's population decreased by 110 or 958%. The period coincided with the coronavirus pandemic.

Four of the US counties with the highest population losses fell on New York.

Hudson County in neighboring New Jersey was also in the top ten. The New York metropolitan area had five of the ten counties with the most population losses.

Population Brooklyn decreased by 86 inhabitants, or 341%, which is the sixth worst in the country.

The number of Bronx residents in "boogie down" decreased by 41 people, or 490%, and this is the eighth largest percentage drop.

Queens County ranked ninth with a 3,1% decline in population, or 64 people.

Only Staten Island, Richmond County escaped the top 10

Meanwhile, 20 people left Hudson County, or 192%. Over the 3,1-month period, the population of the city as a whole dropped sharply by 12 percent, or 3,5 people.

New York City's annual population loss wiped out almost half of the population growth of 629 achieved in the previous decade, said E. J. McMahon, an analyst with the Empire Center for Public Policy.

Los Angeles County, the nation's largest with 9,8 million residents, had the largest loss of people at 159.

McMahon's analysis found that New York City's decline in migration was in large part due to residents moving elsewhere during the worst of the COVID-19 outbreak. The internal migration outflow is 342 people, which is more than three times the annual loss of migration from 449 to 2010. This reduction is offset by a small "natural increase" of 2020.

Even during the pandemic, the number of births in the city slightly exceeded the number of deaths.

In many US counties with older populations, deaths have outnumbered births. During this period, 12 immigrants entered the metropolitan area, a slight increase from the pre-pandemic period.

“According to news from New Yorkers flooding into the Hamptons, Suffolk County has seen the largest net inflow of internal migration in absolute terms, up by 2138 residents (1,4 per 1000) after a net outflow of 8000 in the previous decade. man," McMahon said.

The post-pandemic future of the city will depend on whether certain trends continue during the COVID-19 outbreak, such as telecommuting instead of office work, he said. More and more urban firms are placing remote vacancieswhere employees can work from anywhere.

New Yorkers move most often to neighboring states

The Empire Center analysis shows that to a greater extent, urban residents are moving to neighboring states, such as New Jersey and Connecticut than north to the Catskills and Hudson Valley.

Part of New Yorkers moved further, to cities in the southeast and west that were already growth hotspots, he said.

New census data show an increase in smaller, less expensive areas of major cities, to the detriment of metropolitan areas such as New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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San Francisco has the second highest percentage of losses after Manhattan - 6,7%

But small areas in the north of the state did not benefit from the exodus of people from the country's most populous city.

Manhattan County President Mark Levin said his county was at the epicenter of a once-in-a-century pandemic and called the population drop mentioned in the census an "anomaly."

He said the worst of the COVID-19 outbreak was over and there is evidence of a return from the pandemic. Levine acknowledged the remaining problems, including the need to control crime.