Where New Yorkers fled during pandemic: Mail-forwarding data reveals Florida and Philadelphia were top out-of-state destinations for escapees fleeing coronavirus-ridden city
Wealthy New Yorkers are fleeing the coronavirus-ridden city in favour of west-coast retreats, mail-forwarding request data showed.
Between March 1 and May 1, about 420,000 residents of the Big Apple - particularly from the wealthiest neighborhoods - escaped the city to various locations across the country.
Mail-forwarding requests showed that Miami, Los Angeles and Virginia were among the top destinations where New York City residents moved to in a bid to escape the coronavirus epicentre of the US.
Most New Yorkers who left the city fled to other areas in New York state or nearby New Jersey.
But the second-most popular destination was sunny Florida with 1,830 requests put forward for Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
Wealthy New Yorkers are fleeing the coronavirus-ridden city in favour of west-coast retreats, mail-forwarding request data showed
Washington, Arlington and Alexandria in Virginia were also among the top metropolitan areas to flee to with 1,298 mail-forwarding requests.
It was closely followed by Los Angeles, Long Beach and Anaheim with 1,131 requests.
New York City has more than 190,000 confirmed cases of the virus with at least 15,888 confirmed deaths and 4,832 probable deaths.
The United States Postal Service had 56,000 mail-forwarding requests from New York City in March alone.
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This is more than twice the monthly average, the New York Times reports.
This figure hit 81,000 the month after - double what it was the year earlier - and more than half of those came from people living in the wealthy Upper West and Upper East Sides.
Of those new requests, 60 per cent of them were for outside of New York City.
Manhattan's overall population has fallen by almost 20 percent as the lockdown enters its third month, the New York Times reported.
Five percent of New York City's population, or 420,000 people, left between March 1 and May 1 amid the coronavirus pandemic. The bottom 80%, who earn less than $90,000 per year, mostly stayed while the top 1%, who earn about $2.2 million per year, left
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Income was perhaps the strongest indicator of how many residents in a particular neighborhood had fled.
A seperate report by the New York Times looked at data provided by New Mexico-based Descartes Labs, a geospatial imagery analytics company, to see how many people had left the city and where they fled from.
The company used anonymous smartphone geolocation data to track where New York City residents were in February, and whether they left th e city or not after the pandemic.
The sample population was 140,000 people from nearly every census-counted neighborhood in the five boroughs.
While smartphone data is not perfect, and not every resident owns a smartphone, it provides a general idea about New Yorkers' mobility.
Between March 1 and March 15, there was a small trickle out of New York. But, after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city's schools would be shut, there was a mass exodus.
The Times found that residents from neighborhoods where the median income is $90,000 or less (the bottom 80th percentile) stayed in their homes.
Where New Yorkers fled during pandemic: Mail-forwarding data reveals Florida and Philadelphia were top out-of-state destinations for escapees fleeing coronavirus-ridden city
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