NEW YORK—The number of people commuting into Manhattan from outside Manhattan rose significantly from 2002 to 2010, especially in nearby neighborhoods in Brooklyn and New Jersey but also in counties very far away from the island.
From 2000 to 2010, the share of New York’s workforce living within 5 miles of the Central Business District increased by 1.3 percent, found Carson Qing, graduate research assistant at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. Qing crunched numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau.
“What we’re seeing is that areas that are closer to the core of the region, which is Manhattan and maybe parts of downtown Brooklyn or Jersey City, are attracting a greater share of jobs,” said Qing in a phone interview, calling the phenomenon “a re-centralization of employment in the New York City region.”
After discovering more people working in New York’s core, Qing wanted to discover where the people are living, so he posted the findings of follow-up research on where Manhattan commuters are living, broken down by zip code.
