In 2022, 23% of adult New Yorkers and 25% of children in New York City lived in poverty. This is the highest annual child poverty rate observed in the Poverty Tracker data since 2015. The increase in poverty among New Yorkers in 2022 is evident among both adults and children. As seen in Figure 1.2, the adult and child poverty rates in New York City have been persistently high and well above national rates since before the pandemic, with roughly 1 in 5 adults and children in New York City living in poverty (see Figure 1.2). Between 2021 and 2022, the adult poverty rate increased from 18% to 23% in New York City and from 9% to 12% nationally. The increase in poverty was even more pronounced among children, as the share of children in poverty increased from 15% to 25% in New York City and more than doubled nationally from a historic low of 5% to 12%. 6
Adult and child poverty rates in New York City and nationally (2015–2022) Figure 1.2
New York City
National
30%
23%
22%
21%
21%
20%
18%
18%
20%
17%
14%
14%
13%
10%
12%
12%
12%
9%
9%
0%
2019
2020
2022
2017
2018
2015
2016
2021
30%
25%
20%
20%
20%
20%
18%
12%
16%
15%
14%
10%
12%
10%
5%
0%
2019
2017
2018
2020
2022
2021
Source: New York City results based on annual Poverty Tracker survey data, second through fifth Poverty Tracker co- horts. National results based on authors’ calculations using the Current Population Survey, retrieved from IPUMS-CPS, University of Minnesota, www.ipums.org. Note: In 2020, the Poverty Tracker sampling design changed to include an oversample of New Yorkers of Chinese de- scent, including those who speak Mandarin. Thus, pre-2020 results are not directly comparable to results from 2020 to the present, which we signify with a break in the New York City trend line. See Appendix B for additional details.
6 Shrider and Creamer, “Poverty in the United States: 2022.”
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