How many new yorkers own cars

And where do all these car owners live? The data team at AddressReport broke down the most recent American Community Survey to rank the Manhattan neighborhoods with the highest and lowest percentage of households that own at least one car.

The results were surprising - even knowing that New Yorkers drive way less frequently than people in the rest of the country. Based on our analysis Tribeca is the Manhattan neighborhood where residents are most likely to have a car. The top five neighborhoods were:. Most of the nieghborhoods with the fewest cars have major subway lines running through them, meaning that cars are even less necessary than in the rest of Manhattan. The bottom five neighborhoods were:.

Although if it is then it seems like Tribeca is the place for you. Is your neighborhood safe? Is your neighborhood kid friendly? Does your neighborhood have a rodent problem? Even in neighborhoods where the car ownership rate is as low as 20 or 30 percent, such as Manhattan CB 9 or Brooklyn CB 9 , parking and traffic often dominate conversations about important street safety projects. Bronx Council Member Ritchie Torres wants to change that. Torres has introduced a bill Intro. They would also have to provide a count of open spots on boards and committees.

Members would be encouraged to volunteer other demographic information, such as race, income, language spoken at home, and — of special note for the issues Streetsblog covers — if they own a car.

Torres told Gotham Gazette last week that community boards should welcome putting diversity and representation on the agenda. Making the demographic questions optional would compromise the accuracy of the survey. A mandatory survey could still preserve the anonymity of individual members while yielding a truer picture of the board as a whole. Staten Island is the only borough where the majority of commuters 64 percent drive, while only 8 percent of Manhattanites drive to work. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search.

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