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New York|After Pandemic Exodus, New York City’s Population Is Growing Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/nyregion/nyc-population-2024.html
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Fewer people leaving the city and more foreign newcomers have helped erase pandemic losses, new census data shows.
March 13, 2025Updated 7:57 a.m. ET
In the depths of the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers packed up and fled, raising the possibility that the ravaged city had entered a long-term slide.
New York’s population has yet to fully recover, but new census data released on Thursday reveals that it is finally growing again after a steep drop. It reached 8.48 million in July 2024, up from 8.39 million in July 2023.
The increase was seen as a positive sign that the population of America’s largest city had not only stabilized but, in fact, seemed on track to resume the extended trend of growth seen before the pandemic, according to demographic and policy experts.
“Despite everything the city has had to overcome in recent years, people clearly want to be here,” said Jonathan Bowles, the executive director of the Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan think tank that researches policy issues facing cities.
Mr. Bowles added, “New York still faces a number of challenges, but there’s a lot that’s going right for the city today.”
The city grew by about 1 percent, gaining 87,184 residents between 2023 and 2024 — largely because of a steady increase in newcomers from other countries — while at the same time fewer residents left for elsewhere, according to the census data.
