New York City · residential turnover

Where the city stays put, and where it churns

How much each neighborhood's residents change over. The first three measures count homes whose householder moved in during 2020 through 2024 — the five years this dataset covers. "Past year" is a tighter measure: residents who lived elsewhere a year before being surveyed, across that same 2020–2024 period. Darker means more turnover.

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all households
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Most turnover

    Least turnover

      Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates (tables B25038 and B07003), aggregated from census tracts to New York City Department of City Planning 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas. Estimates carry margins of error; see methodology.

      Methodology & sources

      What this measures. Residential turnover is the share of occupied homes whose householder moved in recently. The main view ("All households," "Renters," "Owners") uses Census table B25038, Tenure by Year Householder Moved Into Unit, and counts the share who moved in during 2020 through 2024 — the five calendar years covered by the 2020–2024 ACS dataset. The "Past year" view uses table B07003 and counts residents age 1 and over who lived in a different home one year before they were surveyed; because the ACS pools five years of interviews, this reflects one-year moves spread across the 2020–2024 survey period, not a single calendar year.

      These are period estimates. A 5-year ACS figure is an average over its whole 2020–2024 collection window, not a snapshot of one day. The five-year move-in share is therefore a blended estimate across those survey years rather than a precise count of who moved on a given date.

      Geography. Figures are pulled at the census-tract level for the five New York City counties, then summed to the city's 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) using the Department of City Planning tract-to-NTA equivalency. Only residential NTAs are shown; parks, airports, cemeteries and other non-residential areas are excluded. Boundaries are City Planning's shoreline-clipped polygons, so shading stops at the coastline.

      Margins of error. American Community Survey figures are estimates from a sample, not a full count. Each neighborhood rate carries a margin of error (shown when you select a neighborhood), computed by summing the published tract margins in quadrature (the square root of the sum of squared margins) and applying the Census Bureau's standard formula for the margin of error of a proportion. This aggregation can run slightly conservative — that is, it may overstate rather than understate the true margin. Smaller neighborhoods and the owner-only and past-year measures have wider margins; treat small differences in the rankings as roughly equal.

      What counts as turnover. Turnover here is the share of today's occupied homes filled by a recent arrival. That deliberately includes the first residents of newly built housing — the source table records only when the current householder moved in, not whether the unit is new or old, and a neighborhood absorbing new residents is in flux either way. A high rate can therefore reflect new construction, a young and mobile renter population, or displacement of prior residents; a low rate reflects long-tenured, often owner-occupied households. This map does not separate those causes, and counting new-construction move-ins is a key reason rapidly built areas such as Long Island City–Hunters Point top the list.

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      ⚠ A note of caution

      This tool was built with the help of AI. The underlying numbers come directly from the U.S. Census Bureau, but please keep the following in mind:

      • Every figure is a survey estimate with a margin of error, not an exact count. Small gaps between neighborhoods may not be meaningful.
      • "Turnover" is defined here as recent move-ins, including into newly built housing. It does not separate new construction, normal rental churn, and displacement — very different stories can produce the same number.
      • Census tracts were aggregated to neighborhoods; a neighborhood's value is the combined estimate of its tracts.
      • Numbers were checked against the published citywide totals and the most- and least-turnover lists were reviewed for plausibility, but independent verification against the Census source is encouraged before citing specific figures.

      Source data: data.census.gov, ACS 2020–2024 5-year estimates.