Community Assessment

Capital projects, city life, city programs, cultural institutions, education, health facilities, landmarks, municipal boundaries, public safety, resident services, service centers, transportation, water quality and youth services.

From the NYC Mayor's Community Affairs Unit: Find your Community Board and get involved.

For information about a particular community district, select from the map on the site.

Joint Interest Areas, such as Parks and Airports, are not included in the Community District tabulations.
Some of these areas have reported populations and/or housing units, which are shown below.

Select one of the boroughs to learn about projects and proposals for each borough or citywide.

Provides reference features of New York City.

Includes Census, NYC Census, Projecting the Future and Historical Population Information.

Find geographic information by address.

The New York City Census FactFinder provides quick and easy access to population information from the 2000 U.S. Census. To begin, either enter an address, select a point of interest or subway station, or choose a community district. For addresses, points of interest and subway stations, also indicate your choice of profile by census tract, community district or by all tracts within a buffer distance of your location.

Each district profile contains summary data on population size; birth, death and infant mortality rates; land area and land uses; and levels of income support.

New York City's land area covers approximately 305 square miles (approximately 195,000 acres or 8.5 billion square feet). "Excluding streets and major bodies of water, approximately 154,000 acres (about 6.7 billion square feet) of land, or lot area, is available for use.

City Planning's Transportation Planning Division undertakes projects to improve the movement of bicycists, pedestrians, and vehicles in and about New York City. The division also works on projects to update and maintain the five-year transportation improvement program in collaboration with other transportation agencies.

The Newest New Yorkers, 2000 uses Census information and other federal and local data to take a detailed look at the origins, spatial settlement, and other characteristics of the foreign-born population in New York City and in the larger metropolitan region.

Provides information on how workers who are 16 years of age or older travel to work.

Population and housing characteristics from the 2000 and 2010 census.

Historical Population information from 1790-2000 and includes maps and charts.

The "Current" Population of New York City: Release of Population Estimates by the Census Bureau for July 1, 2009*

Population by Borough: 2000 to 2009
As of July 1, 2009, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of the City of New York was 8,391,881, an increase of 383,600 persons or 4.8 percent since April 2000.

Staten Island continues to outpace the four other boroughs of the city, with a growth rate of 10.8 percent, placing it among the fastest growing counti

Provides information on: Short-Term Events and Long-Term Patterns
New York City Population, Age/Sex Projection by Borough. Projected Population Change by Neighborhood, New York City.

Contains excerpts of books including Citywide and Local Area Planning and Zoning like Waterfront plans, Facts and Figures about New York City, NYC Consolidated Plan Documents, Rules and Regulations and Maps