The permanent residents

About this page

• This map was built with AI assistance. Active-cemetery shapes come from OpenStreetMap; the fuller inventory — including historic and obliterated burial grounds, and the founding years and status labels — comes from Elizabeth D. Meade's Cemeteries of New York City catalogue. Notable burials come from Wikidata.
• Burial counts were checked one by one against cemetery websites, city landmark reports, Wikipedia article text and other published sources. Each count names its source, links to it and carries a confidence level; the methodology lists them all. For most cemeteries, no figure was found.
• "Notable burials" means people with Wikipedia/Wikidata entries who are recorded there as buried at the cemetery — an incomplete and uneven list.
• Spot-check anything you plan to rely on. See the methodology for details.

How many people are buried here?

How big are the sites without counts?

Why the rest is unknown

Every count and its source is listed in the methodology. Population: NYC Department of City Planning, July 2025 estimate. Acreage in this panel is measured from Meade’s mapped site footprints and is the sum of those mapped areas; OpenStreetMap supplies the displayed cemetery outlines.