NEW YORK, May 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The eight-county
New York area continues to be home
to the greatest concentration of Jewish people of any metropolitan
area in the United States,
according to UJA-Federation of New
York's Jewish Community Study of New York 2023. Released today, the study, is
based on nearly 6,000 questionnaires that were completed during the
spring of 2023. The study examines and reports on community size,
demographics, poverty, mental health, Jewish ritual observance, and
participation in Jewish programs.
"The 2023 Jewish Community Study of New York offers a comprehensive snapshot of
our community. Particularly in this challenging moment, these
insights will help guide funding decisions so we can reach people
where they are and ensure the strength of our Jewish community and
the institutions serving them," said Eric
S. Goldstein, CEO, UJA-Federation of New York.
In the report, UJA does not make direct comparisons about the
change in Jewish population from 2011 — the year of the last New
York Jewish population study — to 2023 because of
methodological differences between the two studies, including mode
differences in how the two surveys were conducted (telephone
interviews compared to web-based surveys), survey identification
processes, and weighting procedures. As a result, when considering
the change in the population over time, the 2023 study presents a
historical view (looking back to studies in both 1991 and 2002) to
provide long-term population trends. Over the past three decades,
the New York area has experienced
broad stability in the total number of Jewish adults and children
in the eight-county area, with the Jewish population hovering
around 1.4 million people.
Key findings:
Total Jewish Population:
|
Jewish
Adults
|
Jewish
Children
|
Jewish
People
|
Bronx
|
29,000
|
4,000
|
33,000
|
Brooklyn
|
305,000
|
157,000
|
462,000
|
Manhattan
|
237,000
|
40,000
|
277,000
|
Queens
|
126,000
|
23,000
|
150,000
|
Staten
Island
|
35,000
|
2,000
|
38,000
|
Subtotal
|
732,000
|
227,000
|
960,000
|
Nassau
|
177,000
|
45,000
|
222,000
|
Suffolk
|
77,000
|
7,000
|
85,000
|
Westchester
|
88,000
|
16,000
|
105,000
|
Subtotal
|
343,000
|
68,000
|
412,000
|
Total
|
1,076,000
|
296,000
|
1,372,000
|
Poverty
- Nearly 1 in 5 Jewish households (20%) is poor or near-poor,
with incomes under 250% of the federal poverty guideline.
- In the eight-county area, 147,000 Jewish households are poor or
near-poor, representing about 428,000 people.
- More than a third of children in Jewish households (36%) live
in or near poverty.
- Jewish poverty is concentrated in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten
Island.
- 33% of Jewish households received government benefits.
Denomination
- 20% of Jewish households identify as Reform.
- 19% of Jewish households identify as Orthodox.
- 15% of Jewish households identify as Conservative.
- 47% of Jewish households report no or some other denominational
identification.
- There are approximately 430,000 Jews who live in Orthodox
households, comprising 249,000 adults and 181,000 children.
Demographics
- In 2023, there were an estimated 13,000 Holocaust survivors
living in Jewish households in the eight-county area, 92% of whom
lived in New York City. The
largest number of these individuals live in Brooklyn, accounting for 65% of the total
number of survivors in the eight-county area.
- 14% of Jewish households include a person who identifies as
LGBTQ+.
- The overall percentage of married couples who are intermarried
is 37%.
- In the eight-county area, 28% Jewish adults are above the age
of 65.
- One in eight Jewish adults (12%) identifies as non-white
(Black, Asian, multiracial, or other) and/or Hispanic. This
includes the 7% of Jews who did not identify as white in our study,
plus an additional 5% who identified as white and Hispanic.
The U.S. Census is prohibited from asking questions about
religion, so the 2023 Jewish Community Study of New York is the prime source of information
about the Jewish community in the current moment. The survey
collected data from a cross-sectional, representative sample of
New York-area adults who live in a
Jewish household. The geographic scope is the New York eight-county area — the five
New York City boroughs,
Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties.
A complete methodological report can be found online at:
https://communitystudy.ujafedny.org/methodology. UJA-Federation
contracted with the research firm SSRS to design this study and
collect the data. The margin of error for the entire sample of
adults in Jewish households is ± 1.5 percentage points.
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York