If Brooklyn is currently America’s Fourth City, Queens is right behind it in fifth. It now boasts a population of 2.3 million. Other than a dip in the '70s, New York's second largest borough has been growing steadily for decades. Queens and Staten Island have already hit their record highs. The Bronx, which has grown 5.1 percent since 2010, is also set to shatter its record high of 1.47 million by the 2020 census, a remarkable turnaround for a borough that lost a fifth of its population-300,000 people- during the 1970s. (LA steals everything!)Īccording to my calculations, Brooklyn is on pace to eventually catch L.A. 1 and again (unofficially) from 1910, when it overtook Philadelphia, until 1970, when the population of Los Angeles surpassed Brooklyn's for the first time. 2 and New York, which comprised Manhattan and parts of today's Bronx, was No. in 1970.īrooklyn has held the Third City spot twice before: From 1860-1880, when Philly was No. The name has stuck even though Chicago fell behind L.A. This will be the first time Brooklyn has exceeded Chicago in population since 1890, when the City of the Big Shoulders passed Brooklyn (then still one of five independent incorporated municipalities in Kings County) and Philadelphia to claim America's "Second City" title. Only a hypothetical four-borough New York and Los Angeles will be larger.Ĭhicago, currently home to about 2.72 million, grew less than one percent between 20, and is on pace to fall to fourth. If the Census Bureau’s estimates are correct, by the end of this decade, Brooklyn's population will exceed 2.75 million. Today, with an estimated current current population of 2.6 million, Brooklyn hasn't quite reached its previous population high. It reached its peak population of 2.74 million in 1950, then lost half a million people over the ensuing three decades. It took 20 years of growth for New York to erase the decline.īrooklyn was particularly hard hit. After flirting with 7.9 million in the early post-war decades, the city's population cratered, dropping to 7 million by 1980. While growth may seem a rule of nature in today's New York, it wasn't always. The Census Bureau estimated New York's 2015 population at just under 8.6 million, up from from 8.2 million in 2010. This growth fits with a larger pattern for New York City. Census Bureau, Brooklyn’s population has grown by 5.3 percent percent since 2010, an increase of more than 130,000 residents. Watch your back, L.A.Īccording to estimates from the U.S. Now, the borough is poised to leapfrog Chicago, the current holder of third place, by 2020. For years, Brooklynites have boasted that if their homeland seceded from the rest of New York City, it would be the fourth largest city in the United States.
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