NYC CHILDREN &
FAMILIES IN 2015

STATISTICS FROM THE U.S. CENSUS BUREAU’S
2015 AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY

Child Poverty: A Tale of Two Cities

There are over 508,000 children living in
poverty in New York City. A quarter of these
children live in the 8 community districts where the
child poverty rate is at least 50%. Over 252,000 children
live in these high poverty districts.

RENTS UP WHILE FAMILY INCOMES STAY DOWN
The median income for families with
children in 2015 was nearly $3,400
than in 2008.

less

In Queens, families with children still face
a nearly $7,600 gap in income from
where they were before the recession.
Median rent in NYC is up by more
than $2,000 annually since 2008,
including in the boroughs where income
remains down.
See following page for more data and explore more data on NYC’s families and children at

http://data.cccnewyork.org

 NEW YORK CITY
POPULATION DATA

change
from 2014
0.7%

BY BOROUGH
Bronx

Brooklyn

Manhttan

Queens

Staten Island

Total Population

8,550,405

1,455,444

2,636,735

1,644,518

2,339,150

474,558

Children under 18 years

1,804,647

0.4%

368,728

612,398

240,207

478,403

104,911

21.1%

-0.3%

25.3%

23.2%

14.6%

20.5%

22.1%

280,653

0.0%

59,778

92,205

34,108

75,958

18,604

15.6%

-0.4%

16.2%

15.1%

14.2%

15.9%

17.7%

954,282

0.6%

199,555

320,381

121,396

254,241

58,709

52.9%

0.1%

54.1%

52.3%

50.5%

53.1%

56.0%

569,712

0.5%

109,395

199,812

84,703

148,204

27,598

31.6%

0.0%

29.7%

32.6%

35.3%

31.0%

26.3%

% of pop.
Teens 15-17 years
% of child pop.
Children 5 to 14 years
% of child pop.
Children under 5 years
% of child pop.
CHARACTERISTICS OF CHILDREN
by Gender
% Male

51.0%

0.1%

51.1%

51.0%

50.8%

51.0%

51.3%

% Female

49.0%

-0.1%

48.9%

49.0%

49.2%

49.0%

48.7%

11.9%

0.4%

3.1%

10.7%

8.6%

22.8%

7.5%

by Race/Ethnicity
% Asian
% Black

25.8%

-1.8%

31.8%

31.9%

19.5%

19.3%

13.6%

% Latino

35.2%

0.0%

59.8%

22.5%

36.2%

34.1%

25.5%

% White

25.8%

0.7%

7.3%

33.9%

34.1%

19.7%

52.1%

7.9%

-4.1%

8.8%

7.2%

6.9%

9.4%

4.0%

53.9%

1.0%

35.6%

58.2%

53.2%

59.8%

67.9%

5.6%

8.1%

6.9%

4.7%

5.8%

6.1%

3.4%

% living with single mother

26.0%

-4.3%

40.7%

23.2%

28.9%

18.5%

18.6%

% living with grandparent(s)

9.4%

4.1%

11.6%

9.0%

8.5%

9.2%

7.7%

% covered by health insurance

97.7%

1.1%

97.4%

97.7%

98.7%

97.2%

98.3%

% covered by Medicaid

54.8%

2.9%

70.5%

57.6%

44.1%

49.1%

33.5%

Total Poverty Rate

20.0%

-4.4%

30.4%

22.3%

17.6%

13.8%

14.4%

Child Poverty Rate

28.6%

-3.3%

42.9%

31.3%

24.3%

18.8%

18.2%

% of household with children receiving SNAP

29.2%

-3.5%

47.3%

31.0%

24.1%

19.3%

15.9%

7.4%

-10.8%

10.7%

7.6%

6.1%

6.8%

5.4%

% Foreign Born
% living with 2 parents
% lving with single father

ECONOMIC AND HOUSING CONDITIONS

Total Unemployment Rate
Teen Unemployment Rate

33.6%

-3.4%

43.4%

31.5%

29.8%

31.0%

26.4%

Youth Unemployment Rate

15.3%

-7.8%

20.1%

15.2%

12.0%

14.5%

12.7%

Median Household Income

$55,752

5.1%

$35,176

$51,141

$75,575

$60,422

$71,622

Median Household Income for Families with
Children

$51,854

1.9%

$31,665

$50,198

$90,043

$57,735

$83,869

$1,199

3.2%

$1,006

$1,171

$1,524

$1,329

$1,070

Median Contract Rent
Median Rent Burden

32.0%

-2.1%

35.6%

32.1%

28.9%

33.0%

32.6%

% of Households with > 50% Rent Burden

27.8%

-2.8%

33.8%

28.6%

21.8%

28.6%

28.9%

Homeownership Rate

31.6%

1.3%

18.7%

28.7%

23.5%

43.2%

68.9%

Homeownership Rate for Families with Children

31.0%

-0.2%

14.8%

29.3%

23.7%

40.1%

67.2%

Sources & Notes: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, 2014 and 2015; All dollar amounts are
presented in 2015 dollars, an any year-to-year comparisons of dollar amounts use constant 2015 dollars. Previous years’ dollar
amounts were adjusted to constant 2015 dollars using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all urban consumers, all goods, for
New York-New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA. Race/Ethnicity category definitons: Asian = Asian alone; Black = black or
African American alone; Latino = Latino or Hispanic; White = non-Hispanic white alone. The categories of Black and Asian
are not disaggregated by Latino ethnicity so double-counting may occur. For unemployment rates, teens are defines as 16-19;
youth are defined as age 20-24.