Poverty in New York Poverty, by City Council District Number and Percent of Population Earning Below the Federal Poverty Level City Council Districts 2009–2013 5-year Estimate

Percent in Poverty 11 The percentage of residents who lived Riverdale n Williamsbridge 6.4%–9.9% Bedford below the Federal Poverty Level ranged Park n 10%–24.9% 12 WashingtonUniversity Pelham from a low of 6% in Tottenville (District 51) Parkway n 25%–34.9% Heights Heights to a high of 40% in Morrisania (District 17); 14 15 East citywide, the rate was 20%. n 35%–39.6% 10 Tremont 16 13 Number in Poverty Concourse Unionport MorrisaniaSoundview Manhattanville Throgs Five City Council districts (8, 14, 15, 16, 9,991–41,000 17 18 Neck 8 Mott Hunts 7 9 Haven Point and 17) encompassing East Harlem and 41,001–58,000 Upper West 8 the south and central West Bronx had 58,001–62,930 Side 8 22 Upper 6 East poverty rates of 35%–40%. Side Astoria Flushing 19 Bayside Clinton 4 5 5 22 Jackson Midtown Heights In one-third of City Council districts, Murray Woodside 3 Hill 26 21 20 Chelsea Sunnyside Elmhurst Fresh Corona Meadows more than one out of every four people Greenwich 25 Greenpoint 23 Village Rego Queens lived in poverty (25%). Tribeca 2 Park Forest Jamaica Battery Lower Hills 24 Estates Village Park East Jamaica City Side Ridgewood 29 Hills 1 Williamsburg Glendale Briarwood 34 30 Jamaica 33 Bushwick St. Brooklyn Bedford- Center 27Albans 1 Heights Fort Stuyvesant Woodhaven Greene To effectively reduce the homeless East 28 Park 36 Crown New York Slope 37 South Heights 32 Ozone family census, the factors which keep 39 35 Brownsville Park 31 families poor, such as low educational Sunset 40 41 42 Howard Park East Beach Rosedale Flatbush attainment and limited job skills, must Borough 38 Flatbush Canarsie Bay Park be directly addressed. Ridge 45 Midwood 31 42 44 46 32 43 Bensonhurst 31 St. George 48 Sheepshead 47 Bay 49 Coney Island Rockaways

South 32 50 Beach

51 Note: The Federal Poverty Level for a family of three was $18,751 in 2013 and $19,055 in 2014. Tottenville Margin of error for percentage values is between 0.8%–1.9% and coefficient of variation for numbers is 3.1%–7.9%. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2013 American Community Survey 5-year Estimates; 52 On the Map: The Dynamics of Family Homelessness in New York City ICPHusa.org U.S. Census Bureau, Poverty Thresholds, 2013 and 2014. Factors Driving Housing Instability and Homelessness

Poverty, by City Council District Percent of Population Earning Below the Federal Poverty Level

2009–2013 5-year Estimate 39.6% 38.5% 38.5%

Note: City Council maps and tables were created using 37.1% Manhattan 17.7% Census block group data, which are only available in five-year 36.0% Bronx 29.8% estimates. In order to allow for comparisons to be made across multiple geographic levels, five-year estimates are used Brooklyn 23.2% for all geographies. The Federal Poverty Level for a family of three was $18,751 in 2013 and $19,055 in 2014. 31.9% Queens 15.0% 31.8% Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2013 American Community Survey Staten Island 11.9% 30.4% 30.0% 5-year Estimates; U.S. Census Bureau, Poverty Thresholds, 29.9% 29.3% New York City 20.3% 2013 and 2014. 29.2% 28.4%

New York State 15.3% 27.4% 26.8% 26.0%

United States 15.4% 25.4% 23.2% 22.4% 21.6% 21.2% 20.5% 20.3% 19.3% 19.1% 18.4% 18.2% 17.8% 17.6% 17.4% 17.4% 17.3% 17.1% 15.7% 15.4% 15.3% 15.0% 14.7% 13.7% 13.3% 12.0% 11.6% 11.3% 10.9% 10.6% 9.0% 8.4% 8.1% 7.8% 7.6% 7.4% 6.4% New York City York New 51 19 4 5 50 6 23 29 3 46 32 30 27 45 39 22 28 13 43 31 2 24 26 12 48 1 11 20 25 47 49 35 40 21 10 34 7 44 9 18 33 38 36 41 42 37 14 8 15 17 16 City Council Districts and Select Neighborhoods District 1 District 8 District 15 District 21 District 27 District 33 District 39 District 46 Battery Park, Wall Street, El Barrio/East Harlem, Fordham, Bathgate, Bronxdale, Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, St. Albans, Hollis, Cambria Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Flatlands, Georgetown, Marine Tribeca, Two Bridges, Bowery South Bronx Van Nest, Mount Hope Corona, Jackson Heights Heights, Queens Village, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Columbia Waterfront, Park, Bergen Beach, Mill Basin District 2 District 9 District 16 District 22 Addisleigh Park Boerum Hill Gowanus District 47 Lower East Side, East Village, Central Harlem, Morningside West Bronx, Morrisania, Astoria, Woodside, East District 28 District 34 District 40 Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Gramercy Park, Rosehill, Heights, Upper West Side, Highbridge, Melrose Elmhurst, Jackson Heights Jamaica, South Jamaica, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Prospect-Lefferts, Flatbush, Sea Gate, Coney Island Kips Bay East Harlem District 17 District 23 South Ozone Park, Ridgewood Kensington, Ditmas Park District 48 District 3 District 10 Melrose, Longwood, Hunts Bayside Hills, Bellerose, Springfield Gardens District 35 District 41 Brighton Beach, Brightwater Soho, West Village, Chelsea, Washington Heights, Point, Morrisania, Crotona Douglaston, Floral Park, District 29 Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Ocean Towers, Luna Park, Madison Clinton Inwood, Marble Hill Park East Fresh Meadows Rego Park, Forest Hills, Crown Heights Hill-Brownsville, East Flatbush District 49 District 4 District 11 District 18 District 24 Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill District 36 District 42 St. George, Tompkinsville, Upper East Side, Central Bedford Park, Kingsbridge, Parkchester, Soundview, Kew Gardens Hill, Pomonok, District 30 Bedford-Stuyvesant, East New York, Starrett City Stapleton, Snug Harbor, Park South, Grand Central, Norwood, Riverdale Castle Hill, Harding Park, Utopia, Briarwood Maspeth, Ridgewood, Northern Crown Heights District 43 Livingston Tudor City District 12 Clason Point District 25 Glendale, Middle Village, District 37 Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, District 50 District 5 Wakefield, Williamsbridge, District 19 Jackson Heights, Elmhurst Richmond Hill Bushwick, Cypress Hills, City Dyker Heights, Bath Beach Travis, Bulls Head, Yorkville, Lenox Hill, Edenwald, Fishbay, Baychester Bayside, Whitestone, District 26 District 31 Line, Oceanhill-Brownsville District 44 Westerleigh, Oakwood Heights, Roosevelt Island, Sutton Place District 13 Auburndale, College Point, Woodside, Sunnyside, Laurelton, Rosedale, Spring- District 38 Borough Park, Midwood, Oakwood Beach District 6 Pelham Parkway, Pelham Bay, Little Neck Long Island City, Astoria field Gardens, Bayswater Red Hook, Sunset Park, Bensonhurst District 51 Upper West Side Country Club, City Island District 20 District 32 Windsor Terrace District 45 Arden Heights, Annadale, District 7 District 14 Flushing, Queensboro Hill, Belle Harbor, Breezy Point, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Bay Terrace, Tottenville, Manhattan Valley, Morningside Fordham, Kingsbridge, Morris Mitchell Gardens, Kissena Park Broad Channel, Hamilton Flatlands, Midwood, Canarsie Oakwood Heights, Manhattanville Heights, West Bronx Beach Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness ICPHusa.org 53