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Social Explorer’s Andrew Beveridge Talks About New Census Estimates on NY1 [VIDEO]
THURSDAY, MAR 26, 2015
Social Explorer's Andrew Beveridge talked about New York State and New York City population for a NY1 segment on the latest Census Bureau estimates. The new numbers show that New York City continues to grow while upstate areas keep shrinking.
Bobby Cuza reports that Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx are among the nation's top 50 counties in population growth. Meanwhile 43 of New York's upstate counties experienced population declines.
Beveridge explained the dynamics behind the population trends:
"There's a lot more births than deaths in the city, and that's less so upstate. And in fact, there's some counties upstate where there's more deaths than births, which means that people – there are not very many younger people there," said Andrew Beveridge, a sociology professor at Queens College. "And then the other big thing, of course, is immigrants."
Now, New York City attracts more newcomers from abroad than from the rest of the US. Beveridge elaborated:
"New York has always had a massive diversity in its immigrants. They have immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, from Europe," Beveridge said. "Right now, there’s been an influx recently of Greek immigrants, because of the Greek financial problem."