Manhattan’s Population Is Rebounding While the Other NYC Boroughs Shrink

The population of Manhattan grew in the most recent period tracked by the US Census Bureau while New York City’s four other boroughs lost residents as the city struggles to rebound from a pandemic exodus.

Manhattan added 17,472 residents in the 12 months through July 1, reversing a loss of 98,505 in the period that ended in July 2021, the Census Bureau said in a report released Thursday. Even with the gain, Manhattan’s population of 1.6 million was still about 98,000 residents below its level in April 2020, a month after the coronavirus was declared a pandemic.