This is a follow-up post to The Three ’I’s of Poverty in NYC, with the main difference being the inclusion of all of New York State rather than New York City alone. After the maps below, I’ve also included the tables to facilitate an understanding of the full rankings on each poverty measure.
The typical story about poverty focuses on what fraction of individuals are poor.
The typical story about poverty focuses on what fraction of individuals are poor. Economists are interested in more than this, however, and the classical ways of measuring poverty are the:1
incidence of poverty (what proportion of the population is poor?) intensity of poverty (how poor are the poor?), and inequality of poverty (how unequal is the distribution of mild, moderate, and severe poverty?
Who are the poor in Brownsville? How are they different from poor New Yorkers? Below is a detailed dashboard to answer these questions with charts and graphs. The data behind the visualizations comes from the 71,126 New Yorkers who responded to the 2018 American Community Survey. This represents a population of 8,397,407 New Yorkers, 121,320 of whom live in Brownsville / Ocean Hill.1 New York had 1,429,438 individuals in poverty, 31,589 of whom reside in Brownsville / Ocean Hill.