According to city officials, as many as 50,000 migrants were overlooked in the U.S. Census Bureau's 2023 population estimates.
NYC lost nearly 80,000 residents who moved away in 2023, according to population estimates, but city officials suggest the numbers don't account for the migrants who have moved into the city. The city has now welcomed more than 180,000 asylum seekers since the beginning of the migrant crisis.Numerous makeshift shelters, closed hotels, prisons, and even schools have been used to help house tens of thousands of migrants who entered the city.
Officials said the increase in the shelter population is not reflected in the population estimates and that "there is no reason to believe that there are meaningful changes in the populations of other types of group quarters.""We wanted to flag it," said Casey Berkovitz, press secretary for New York’s Department of City Planning. "Once you account for this underestimate ... the year marked a return to pre-pandemic levels.
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