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Our decennial head count, the census, is about to take place here in the good old U. S. of A., and an article in Crane’s New York Business (dot com) has some pretty interesting preliminary statistics. Here are a few nuggets.

  • The 2010 census is expected to show that New York City has gained more residents this decade than any other city in the country.
  • It is the only American city with more than 2 million Hispanics and 2 million African-Americans.
  • Manhattan is the only county in the nation where the majority of dwelling units house only one person.
  • The city’s white, non-Hispanic segment of the population is growing — children and adults alike.
  • Immigration from the suburbs, and back to the city, is affecting the demographic makeup of New York City.

This is my favorite quote: “Who are all these people who keep coming to this already densely packed city? Despite Americans’ supposed love affair with single-family dwellings in leafy suburbs, and despite economic downturns, the 2010 census will show that New York City has added, on average, almost a thousand people a week since 2000.”

That’s right. And Joel Kotkin, the conservative, Los Angeles based purveyor of American nostalgia for the automobile can choke on a tail pipe.

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