Rank

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Queens, New York

Score 4.33 / 10· population 2,252,196

Queens County is the New York City borough with both JFK and LaGuardia airports, which gave it nearly half the city's transportation and warehousing jobs in 2021. Life expectancy there was 81.3 years in Measure of America data through 2022, the longest of the five boroughs. On the Atlantic side, the Rockaway Peninsula lost 16 percent of its people in the two years after Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012.

Sources
  • Among the five boroughs, Queens accounted for nearly half of New York City's transportation and warehousing employment in 2021, as it is home to LaGuardia and JFK airports (State Comptroller, June 2022) osc.ny.gov
  • Queens life expectancy is 81.3 years, the highest of the five NYC boroughs, in Measure of America data collected through 2022 qns.com
  • The Rockaways, a peninsula neighborhood in Queens with a boardwalk along the Atlantic Ocean, saw its population fall 16 percent in the two years following Superstorm Sandy (State Comptroller, March 2018) osc.ny.gov
  • Hurricane Sandy struck on October 29, 2012, flooding every home and business on the island of Broad Channel rockawave.com

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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 President3.7
  4. Sales tax1.9
  5. Property tax6.3

Environment

  1. Air quality5.4
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.1

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.4
  2. Life expectancy10.0
  3. Government employees3.8
  4. Single-parent households3.8

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