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I

The ledger, year by year

One timeline, 1970 to 2025. Hover any bar for the number.
II

The decade ledger

The same arithmetic, census to census

III

How much of the city has turned over?

Pick two years; the window is shaded in section I

Nobody tracks individual New Yorkers across decades. But the yearly ledger above is enough to estimate how much of the city changed hands between any two years: take the people here at the start, apply each year's exit rate (deaths plus out-moves) to them, and count what remains against everyone born or arrived since.

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Sources and notes

Every series, linked to its file