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City Planning’s Online Census Data Tools Updated with New Demographic and Household Information and Ability to Map and Rank Neighborhoods

Population FactFinder and Population MapViewer Now Reflect the Latest Demographic and Housing Characteristics Along with Neighborhood Maps and Rankings

NEW YORK – Department of City Planning (DCP) Director Dan Garodnick today announced that DCP’s Population FactFinder and Population MapViewer tools have been updated with new demographic information and features to make exploring New York’s diverse communities easier than ever.

“The latest additions to Population FactFinder and MapViewer are the next step in our ongoing work to make important demographic information about New York City accessible and transparent to all,” said Dan Garodnick, Director of the Department of City Planning. “Our cutting-edge online tools make it easy to visualize complicated demographic data across New York’s diverse neighborhoods and communities.”

Notable new information from the Census Bureau’s 2020 Census Demographic & Housing Characteristics file includes detailed age, household composition, housing tenure, and vacancy rates. These data are viewable for a host of different geographies including blocks, Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (neighborhoods), Community Districts, and the latest City Council Districts. The data are accompanied by illuminating charts summarizing selected characteristics, like age distributions and the percent rental units. Along with the 2020 Census data, Population FactFinder shows changes since 2010, and continues to incorporate a rich array of the latest socioeconomic data from the American Community Survey.

Key characteristics from the 2020 Census and American Community Survey are also available in Population MapViewer, which allows the public to explore the landscape of characteristics across neighborhoods in maps and ranked charts. As with Population FactFinder, users can explore changes across time, and examine individual neighborhoods vis-à-vis other neighborhoods and the city overall.

A screenshot of Population MapViewer showing population density by Neighborhood Tabulation Area (NTA) in both map and ordinal ranking.

The latest 2020 Census data shows, for example, that Midtown-Times Square is the neighborhood with the lowest average household size at 1.60 people per household; that the Upper East Side-Yorkville is the densest neighborhood in New York City, with 267 people per acre; and that Arden Heights-Rossville is the neighborhood with the lowest percent of renter-occupied households, at 18.6%.

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