◼ NYC / POPULATION
SRC: U.S. CENSUS · ACS 2020–24
49 TABULATIONS
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Figures were assembled and coded with AI assistance, pulled directly from the U.S. Census Bureau's public API. Every number comes from the American Community Survey or the decennial census — nothing is estimated or invented — but AI can still slip on a label or a sum. Check anything important against the original Census tables listed in the methodology before relying on it.
NEW YORK CITYPOPULATION, TABULATEDFIG. 00 — TOTAL
8,483,844

Residents, counted every which way the census allows.

One city, more than 8.4 million people — and as many ways to divide them as the U.S. Census can measure. What follows is the same population run through 24 tabulations: by age and borough, birthplace and language, work, income, housing and more. Each figure is sourced.

Median age—
Foreign-born—
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Renter households—
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Methodology — no black boxes

Where every number comes from

Source

Except for the timeline, every figure is a U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2020–2024 five-year estimate, pulled directly from the Census API. Five-year estimates are the most reliable for small subgroups — specific countries of birth, languages and the like.

Citywide totals use the Census "place" geography (New York city, place 51000); boroughs use the five county equivalents. Medians come from the citywide place — medians can't be summed across boroughs.

Timeline

Fig. 01 uses decennial census counts, 1790–2020, for the modern five-borough area (U.S. Census Bureau; NYC Dept. of City Planning). The 1890→1900 jump is the 1898 consolidation of Greater New York, not real growth.

Universes

Denominators vary by table and are stated on each figure: total population, population 25+ (education), 16+ (work), 15+ (marital status), households or housing units.

Caveats

ACS figures are survey estimates with margins of error, not exact counts; small gaps are noise. Race and Hispanic origin are asked separately and overlap by design. Country-of-birth and ancestry show the top 20.

Build scripts (fetch_acs.py, build_data.py) and raw data are in the repository.

Personal data project · Data © U.S. Census Bureau, public domain · Assembled with AI assistance — verify against source tables.