the scale is immense / 5 year NYC population changes : Manhattan Loft Guy

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Sep. 7, 2006 - the scale is immense / 5 year NYC population changes

Today’s Times has a piece about New Yorkers who were here “then” and New Yorkers who are new. I don’t know if I can deal with blogging about “then” (we’ll see, next week) but the stats about how the New York City has changed since 2000 struck me

The population grew by more than 134,000 from 2000 to 2005, the city’s latest Planning Department calculations show. In that time, 645,416 babies were born and 304,773 people died. A half-million more people came from other countries than departed for them, and 800,000 more people left for the 50 states than came wide-eyed from them.

So net net, we are up 134,000 from 2000 to 2005.

But the “stable” population is up 340,000 (births minus deaths).

The City actually lost a net of 800,000 within the United States (that many more people left NYC for other parts of the US, including the ‘burbs I guess) – which is a huge swing. (I wonder if that kind of swing is ‘normal’ – that’s 10% in just five years.)

But we aware up 500,000 in “trade” to and from other countries. So the City became substantially more “foreign” in just five years.

To put that in some perspective:

The population increase of 134,000 is more than the total population of Hartford CT.

The total births (645,416) is more than the total population of Baltimore.

The number of people who died (304,773) is more than the total population of St. PaulMN.

The net foreign population increase of 500,000 is more than the total population of Atlanta.

The net domestic population decrease of 800,000 is more than the total population of San Francisco.

WOW! This is one big city! (add your own d’oh!!! here)

(population figures over 500,000 and under 305,000 taken from Info Please.

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