The first table illustrates the shift in total residents of New York City between 1800 and 2000 while other tables compare changes in the population of its four districts (Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island) throughout the given time.
Overall, It is clear that there was a significant surge in the number of the city’s residents in the given time frame. Additionally, although the majority of the city’s dwellers distributed in Manhatan until 1900, the population of Manhatan witnessed a dramatic decline as the growth of the population of other districts.
In 1800, 60,515 was the number of residents in Manhattan, accounting 76% of the total New York population (79,216 people) while the remaining 24% was the sum of four other districts. After a century, New York demographic dramatically rose to 3,437,202, as the combination of 1,850,093 people in Manhattan and 1,587,109 in others.
In the last century, the population of NY still witnessed a remarkable increase to 8,009,185. Meanwhile, the percentage of Manhattan citizens significantly declined to 19% with 1,538,096 people while that of other districts soared to 6,471,089, four-time higher than the proportion of Manhattan alone