New York City, like many other major U.S. cities, has been losing residents since 2020, much of it having to do with rising crime, remote work, and strains of lockdown restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Although the wave of losses facing the city has slowed since 2022, the country’s largest metropolitan area has still seen nearly half a million people emigrate.
The majority of those former New Yorkers left for the Southern states, as they looked for a better quality of life.
Between April 2020 and July 2022, New York’s estimated population dropped from 8.80 million to 8.34 million, for a loss of roughly 468,000 residents or nearly 5.3 percent of the city’s total population….