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A PORTRAIT OF
NEW YORK CITY 2018 WELL-BEING IN THE FIVE BOROUGHS AND THE GREATER METRO AREA
NYC BOROUGHS: BRONX OVERVIEW New York City is a haven for healthy, educated residents able to contribute to a vibrant economy and keep pace with today’s rapid labor market shifts. One of the challenges for policymakers at every level is to support actions that will provide all residents, regardless of socioeconomic status, equal access to opportunity in a region with a strong economy but deep inequalities. Despite ongoing efforts to close the gaps, there remains great variation in health, education, and income across the neighborhoods of New York City. A Portrait of New York City compares health, education, and income across the five boroughs of New York City, demonstrating the varying impact of demographic groups and geography on the overall well-being of an individual. The Bronx fares rather poorly in comparison to the other boroughs. It has the lowest life expectancy, the lowest Education Index score, calculated based on school enrollment and educational attainment rates, and the lowest median earnings. HEALTH • Because New York City has a high degree of residential segregation, life expectancy patterns by race and ethnicity are reflected in geographic patterns. A baby born today in the Bronx can expect to live 80.4 years, the lowest of all the boroughs. • Although the Bronx has the lowest overall life expectancy of any borough, Asians living in the Bronx can expect to live longer than Asians residing in any of the other four boroughs. • The five community districts with
the shortest life expectancies, all under 79 years, are found in Harlem, Central Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Top- and Bottom-Five Community Districts by Life Expectancy LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH (YEARS)
TOP 5 1 QUEENS Community District 11-Bayside, Douglaston & Little Neck
89.6
2 QUEENS Community District 13-Queens Village, Cambria Heights & Rosedale
89.0
3 MANHATTAN Community District 6-Murray Hill, Gramercy & Stuyvesant Town
87.0
4 QUEENS Community District 7-Flushing, Murray Hill & Whitestone
86.5
5 MANHATTAN Community District 8-Upper East Side
86.4
BOTTOM 5 55 BRONX Community Districts 1 & 2-Hunts Point, Longwood & Melrose
78.5
56 MANHATTAN Manhattan Community District 11-East Harlem
78.3
57 MANHATTAN Community District 10-Central Harlem
78.0
58 BRONX Community Districts 3 & 6-Belmont, Crotona Park East & East Tremont
77.6
59 BROOKLYN Community District 16-Brownsville & Ocean Hill
76.7
Source: Measure of America calculations using mortality data from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and population data from CDC Wonder and the US Census Bureau, 2010–2014.
EDUCATION INDEX
TOP 10
Less than high school
High school diploma
Bachelor’s degree
Graduate degree
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
HD INDEX
89.7%
9.34
MANHATTAN: Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
9.50
1.9% 13.1%
BROOKLYN: Brooklyn Heights -Cobble Hill
9.32
2.5
20.2
37.4
39.8
87.9
8.61
8.37
3.1
19.7
37.9
39.2
77.9
8.96
77.1
8.34
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
HD NDEX
74.7%
2.71
8.9 3.0
73.5
3.65
7.7 3.5
75.3
3.30
4.6
78.8
3.60
5.6
69.5
3.83
8.0 2.7
73.0
3.68
8.1 2.8
73.6
2.88
8.0 2.6
72.6
3.18
6.9 1.9
73.7
2.91
5.0 2.4
68.3
3.82
37.1%
47.8%
EDUCATION MANHATTAN: 86.4 low scores 2.7 15.4 33.5 New York City neighborhoods, 48.4 9.18tremendously 9.16 on the • Educational across and Lincoln Square outcomes vary MANHATTAN: Education Index are strongly associated with a32.0 host of negative human development outcomes. The 83.8 7.6 19.5 41.0 8.93 8.95 Upper West Side Bronx has the lowest Education Index score of all the boroughs. MANHATTAN: 26.3 11.2 Index 23.7scores range 8.91 7.19 • Among the five boroughs, Education from 3.74 38.8 (the Bronx) to86.9 7.21 (Manhattan). Morningside Heights MANHATTAN: • Another indicator that jumps out is that three in every ten adults over age 25 in the Bronx lack a high 40.6 83.0 1.4 14.0 44.0 8.85 9.05 West Village school diploma, a basic requirement for nearly any job that pays a decent wage. BRONX: North Riverdale 7.3 the lowest 35.1 on the Education 25.6 8.81 score • The ten neighborhoods that Index32.0 are found in90.7 the Bronx7.80 and Central -Fieldston-Riverdale MANHATTAN:in SoHo-TriBeCa Brooklyn areas that are relatively isolated from more prosperous areas of the city. 80.3 9.1 16.6 41.9 32.4 8.50 8.93 -Civic Center-Little Italy
MANHATTAN: Lenox Hill -Roosevelt Island BROOKLYN: Education Index Park Slope-Gowanus
in New York Tabulation Area: Bottom 7.1 Neighborhood 18.6 36.3 38.0 Ten 8.30City by
BOTTOM 10
EDUCATION INDEX
HIGHEST DEGREE ATTAINED High school Bachelor’s diploma degree
Less than high school
BRONX: Claremont-Bathgate
2.51
38.4%
BRONX: Soundview-Bruckner
2.43
39.2
BRONX: Longwood
2.42
BROOKLYN: Sunset Park East
2.42
BROOKLYN: Bushwick North
2.42
BRONX: West Farms -Bronx River
2.36
BRONX: East Tremont
2.29
BRONX: Hunts Point
2.26
BRONX: Mott Haven-Port Morris
2.03
QUEENS: North Corona
1.38
50.4% 48.9
42.8
46.0 54.6
42.4 38.2 41.5 39.3 44.2 46.6
31.1 36.8
Graduate degree 9.0% 2.2%
9.7 15.2
51.1 47.6 50.1 47.0 46.0
INCOME • The income divide between the haves and the have-nots in New York City is clear, with consequential impacts on the well-being of today’s residents and that of their children tomorrow. Of all five boroughs, Bronx workers earn the least ($25,767), less than half of what Manhattan workers take home ($52,364). • Earnings by neighborhood tabulation area (NTA) are more or less consistent with these borough trends: the ten highest-earning NTAs are all located in Manhattan while eight of the bottom ten are in the Bronx.
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