Making Neighborhoods Interactive Map: NYC

On this page, you can explore the map and read our report which describes the study’s methodology and results.

Major trends

Our analysis uncovered five major trends that encapsulate the cluster shifts from 2000 to 2010. Each of the following synthesizes the changes that multiple clusters experienced in that period:

1. Despite an overall decline by 3% of the citys white population, four majority-white clusters increased in population. The decade saw increasing concentrations of predominantly white, upper-middle income homeowner areaslocated in places like Kew Gardens Hills in Queens, Midwood and Windsor Terrace in Brooklyn, and Pelham Bay in the Bronx;
2. The citys black population citywide fell by 5%, including the transition of traditionally middle-income black areas to a greater racial mix, as well as wealthier black clusters shading poorer at their borders such as in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, Hollis and Jamaica, Queens, and Woodlawn in the Bronx;
3. The largest numerical increases occurred among population clusters that are largely white and mid- or high-income, as in Astoria, Queens, Lower Manhattan, and Clinton Hill and Williamsburg in Brooklyn;
4. Two predominantly white clusters made a subtle transition to being more mixed communities of white and Asian households that are similar in non-racial aspects, such as North Riverdale in the Bronx, Middle Village, Queens, Yorkville in Manhattan, and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn; and
5. A divergence occurred among predominantly Hispanic clusters: an increase of poor Hispanic clusters, which in 2010 were the largest in number (exceeding 1 million people) such as in East Harlem in Manhattan, East New York in Brooklyn, and Ridgewood, Queensat the same time as Hispanic working class tracts changed to a higher-income cluster, such as in Washington Heights in Manhattan, Elmhurst in Queens, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn.