The Vital Statistics report has nothing residents don't already know
New York City’s just-released 2018 Vital Statistics report, puts numbers and figures to what its’ residents already know — Boro Park is a great place to live.
Of the city’s population of eight million, one in 40 — or 198,508 souls — live in the mile and a half that is the world’s densest Orthodox community. Boro Park’s proudest factoid is perched at the pinnacle of this report — 25 births per 1,000, the highest in a city that averages 14 births. No other neighborhood even comes close (Williamsburg/Greenpoint comes in second place at 18 births).
These data are borne out in the list of New York’s most popular baby names for non-Hispanic whites, with names in the top ten list including Chaya, Chana, Moshe, David, Esther, Leah, Sarah, and Rachel.
And then there’s safety. Boro Park is on a list of nine neighborhoods with a homicide rate of practically zero. And while every death by unnatural cause is a tragedy for decades, stats show Boro Park to have the second lowest death rates for drug overdose, at 5.2 per 100,000 residents.
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