NYC’s population shrank 5% post-pandemic, with residents skewing older and wealthier

New York City lost more than 5% of its population in the two years following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study from state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Heading into 2020, the Big Apple had 8,804,190 residents — which came after a decade that saw a 7.7% increase in population, beginning with 8,175,133 residents in 2010.