Aging in New York

New York’s Older Adult Population is Booming Statewide

2019
González-Rivera, C, Bowles, J., & Dvorkin, E. (2019, February). New York's Older Adult Population is Booming Statewide. Center for an Urban Future.

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This data analysis provides a new level of detail about the aging of the population in cities and counties across New York State. The analysis finds that older adults are the fastest-growing segment of the population statewide. Over the past decade, the number of New Yorkers ages 65 and over increased by 647,000, or 26%. During the same period, the state’s overall population grew by just 3%. There are now more New Yorkers ages 65 and older statewide than there are children under the age of 13. There are now more residents aged 65 and older in New York State—3.2 million—than the entire population of 21 states. Today, nearly one in six New Yorkers is 65 or above (16%), a larger share of the state’s population than ever before.