So much for Horace Greeley. Between 2006 and 2010, more people, on average, moved to Manhattan from Los Angeles annually (3,251) than, for example, from Suffolk County (2,301). And more moved to Manhattan from Brooklyn (11,469) than from any other county in the United States or from any other country. (Europe was second.)
New migration patterns identified by the Census’s 2006-2010 American Community Survey offer revealing insights into the ebb and flow of New York’s population. In any given year during that period, more people settled in Manhattan from Africa than from Puerto Rico.
Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Westchester, Fairfield and Los Angeles were among the counties that recorded a net gain in residents from Manhattan. Nassau; Suffolk; Bergen; Washington, D.C.; and Cook County, Ill., were among the losers.
The Bronx registered a net gain in population from every other borough, but exported more people to suburban Westchester, Orange, Dutchess, Rockland, Hudson and Bergen Counties. More people from the Bronx moved to Berks County in southeastern Pennsylvania than to either Fairfield or Suffolk.
Brooklyn gained more residents from Manhattan than the number who moved there, but lost population to each of the other boroughs and to the suburbs.
Queens was a magnet for former residents of Brooklyn and Manhattan, but exported people to the Bronx and Staten Island and to the suburbs. Twice as many moved to Queens from Africa as from Westchester.
More people moved to Staten Island from Brooklyn and Queens than left for those boroughs. Staten Island exported more of its residents to Monmouth County, N.J.; Manhattan; the Bronx; Nassau; and Suffolk than it gained from those counties.
