Rank

3134of 3,144

Bronx, New York

Score 3.63 / 10· population 1,356,476

Of New York City's five boroughs, only Bronx County is connected to the mainland, and greenways link it to Westchester County. The borough had 119 murders in 2024 by a preliminary count through Dec. 29, against 84 in 2019. Census estimates for 2024 show 51 percent of Bronx children living in a household headed by someone with no spouse or partner present, about double the national 25 percent.

Sources
  • The Bronx is the only New York City borough connected to the mainland; five greenways do or will connect to Westchester County from the Bronx (NYC Parks) nycgovparks.org
  • Bronx murders: 119 in 2024 (preliminary, as of Dec. 29), down by 1 from the prior year and above the 84 recorded in 2019 (Vital City, Jan. 22, 2025) vitalcitynyc.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year, table B09005: of 328,532 Bronx County children in households, 150,091 live in a female-householder and 17,031 in a male-householder household with no spouse or partner present (50.9 percent); nationally 3,531,575 plus 14,426,655 of 72,736,536 (24.7 percent) api.censusreporter.org

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Eleven factors

Government behavior

  1. Fraser Institute state ranking (state)4.4
  2. 2A (state)0.0
  3. GOP + LP vote for President2.7
  4. Sales tax1.9
  5. Property tax6.1

Environment

  1. Air quality5.5
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.2

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate5.6
  2. Life expectancy9.1
  3. Government employees2.0
  4. Single-parent households0.2

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