Rank

3062of 3,144

New York, New York

Score 4.29 / 10· population 1,597,451

New York County is Manhattan: 22.7 square miles of land with about 73,000 residents per square mile in 2024 Census estimates. More than 110,000 East Side residents live in the federal 100-year floodplain that Hurricane Sandy damaged in 2012, and the city has been building 2.4 miles of floodwalls and raised parkland there since 2020. Of the 654,372 votes cast for named presidential candidates in 2024, Harris won 81.6 percent and Trump 17.4 percent.

Sources
  • New York County is coextensive with the borough of Manhattan cccarto.com
  • New York County has 22.7 square miles of land (Census Reporter profile, ACS 2024 1-year) censusreporter.org
  • New York County's population density was 73,292.7 people per square mile in the ACS 2024 1-year estimates censusreporter.org
  • In 2012 Hurricane Sandy struck New York City; the East Side Coastal Resiliency project area from Montgomery Street to East 25th Street lies within the FEMA 100-year floodplain and has more than 110,000 residents nyc.gov
  • The East Side Coastal Resiliency site was damaged by Hurricane Sandy; the project is a 2.4-mile flood protection system of raised parkland, floodwalls and floodgates nyc.gov
  • Construction on the East Side Coastal Resiliency project began in fall 2020 and will continue through 2026 nyc.gov
  • Certified 2024 presidential results for New York County (NYC Board of Elections, Dec. 3, 2024): Harris 533,782 votes (500,360 Democratic plus 33,422 Working Families) and Trump 113,921 (106,487 Republican plus 7,434 Conservative) of 660,633 total votes, of which 6,261 were unattributable write-ins; of the 654,372 votes for named candidates, Harris had 81.6% and Trump 17.4% vote.nyc

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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 President1.8
  4. Sales tax1.9
  5. Property tax6.5

Environment

  1. Air quality5.3
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.1

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.2
  2. Life expectancy10.0
  3. Government employees9.7
  4. Single-parent households1.2

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