A report by the Empire Center for New York State Policy released yesterday said that New York State lost a net 1.6 million residents to other states between 2000 and 2010, according to 2010 Census data.
The study, written by E. J. McMahon and Robert Scardamalia, noted that "the domestic migration outflow, coupled with a slowdown in foreign immigration, ensured that New York's share of the nation's population continued to slide in the first decade of the 21st century."
The center is a research arm of the Manhattan Institute.
"Since 1960, New York has lost 7.3 million residents to the rest of the country. This was partially offset by an influx of 4.8 million foreign immigrants, resulting in a net decline of 2.5 million residents," the study said.
"New York's average annual domestic migration loss - the difference between people moving in from other states and out to other states - jumped from about 60,000 people in the 1960s to an all-time high of nearly 237,000 in the 1970s. The state's domestic migration outflows have averaged between 130,000 and 160,000 a year since 1980," the report continued.
For a second consecutive decade, it added, New York's net population loss due to domestic migration was the highest of any state as a percentage of population.
New York's net migration loss - the sum of domestic and foreign migration - increased over the last decade to its highest level since the 1970s.
"Immigration to New York from foreign countries peaked at 1.2 million people in the 1990s, balancing out 91 percent of the loss due to the domestic migration of New Yorkers to other states. As a result, New York's net migration loss in the 1990s was the lowest of any decade in the past 50 years - a total of just 109,000 people. But foreign immigration dropped by 25 percent to a total of just 895,150 in the past decade, reaching the lowest level since the 1960s. As a result, between 2000 and 2010, New York sustained its biggest net migration loss since the 1980s. New York's foreign-born population, which had risen sharply in the 1980s through the 1990s, increased only slightly in the past decade. As of 2010, New York's foreign-born population was about 21 percent of the total, second only to California's 27 percent," the report said.
The report noted that the "increase of 2 million people in the state's total population since 1980, despite the continuing net outflow of residents to the rest of the country, can be attributed mainly to the 'natural increase' of births over deaths."
But, it added, "since New York's population has risen much more slowly than the national average, it has lost 10 congressional seats since 1980, and will lose two more based on 2010 census results."
The study, written by E. J. McMahon and Robert Scardamalia, noted that "the domestic migration outflow, coupled with a slowdown in foreign immigration, ensured that New York's share of the nation's population continued to slide in the first decade of the 21st century."
The center is a research arm of the Manhattan Institute.
"Since 1960, New York has lost 7.3 million residents to the rest of the country. This was partially offset by an influx of 4.8 million foreign immigrants, resulting in a net decline of 2.5 million residents," the study said.
"New York's average annual domestic migration loss - the difference between people moving in from other states and out to other states - jumped from about 60,000 people in the 1960s to an all-time high of nearly 237,000 in the 1970s. The state's domestic migration outflows have averaged between 130,000 and 160,000 a year since 1980," the report continued.
For a second consecutive decade, it added, New York's net population loss due to domestic migration was the highest of any state as a percentage of population.
New York's net migration loss - the sum of domestic and foreign migration - increased over the last decade to its highest level since the 1970s.
"Immigration to New York from foreign countries peaked at 1.2 million people in the 1990s, balancing out 91 percent of the loss due to the domestic migration of New Yorkers to other states. As a result, New York's net migration loss in the 1990s was the lowest of any decade in the past 50 years - a total of just 109,000 people. But foreign immigration dropped by 25 percent to a total of just 895,150 in the past decade, reaching the lowest level since the 1960s. As a result, between 2000 and 2010, New York sustained its biggest net migration loss since the 1980s. New York's foreign-born population, which had risen sharply in the 1980s through the 1990s, increased only slightly in the past decade. As of 2010, New York's foreign-born population was about 21 percent of the total, second only to California's 27 percent," the report said.
The report noted that the "increase of 2 million people in the state's total population since 1980, despite the continuing net outflow of residents to the rest of the country, can be attributed mainly to the 'natural increase' of births over deaths."
But, it added, "since New York's population has risen much more slowly than the national average, it has lost 10 congressional seats since 1980, and will lose two more based on 2010 census results."
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Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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