Data
The data behind our articles about New York City, to download, check and reuse. Each dataset is named for what it holds, says first whether its records are counts, survey microdata or synthetic, and keeps the government's records apart from what we added.
Data is CC BY 4.0 where we made it; the government's records stay under their publishers' terms, and the analysis code is MIT (licensing).
Joined datasets
Several public sources combined into something not published elsewhere in one place, with a dictionary of every column, what is observed and what is estimated, and every source with its checksum.
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NYC Subway Crime Rates and Ridership, 1998–2026
This dataset pairs complaints recorded in the New York City subway by the New York City Police Department (NYPD), January 2014 to June 2026, with ridership from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), so that complaint counts can be compared as rates per million paid rides and per million estimated entries, paid or not. The complaint files cover months, days, hours, stations and victim groups, and
subway_complaint_records.csvhas one row per complaint, with categorical fields and gaps kept from the source. A separate series covers major felonies across the transit system back to fiscal 1998. Start withsubway_crime_monthly.csv: one row per month, with counts, rides and rates already combined.Built for Per subway ride, major felonies fell for thirty years. Felony assault broke from the fall.
Families
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NYC Families with Young Children: Census Microdata
Fewer New Yorkers are raising small children: about 543,000 under six lived in the five boroughs in 2024, 116,000 fewer than in 2015, and births kept falling into 2026.
Built for Raising a child in New York
Housing
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NYC No-Heat Complaints and Winter Weather
Last winter's record of about 305,000 no-heat complaints was not just the cold: at the pre-pandemic rate its weather would have brought about 206,000; it brought 48%…
Built for Not just the cold: thirty winters of heat in New York
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NYC Rent-Stabilized Households: Income and Rent
A rent freeze can't pick its tenants, and how its value splits depends on the yardstick: in dollars, better-off households get a little more than their share, because…
Built for Who gets the rent freeze
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NYC Renter Households: Income, Rent and Rent Burden
A six-figure income doesn't settle whether a New York household can afford its rent.
Built for The six-figure renter
Population
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NYC Migration: Who Moves In and Out, Census Microdata
New York is not emptying out; it runs a steady exchange with the rest of the country that ends in a loss every year, a net 114,000 people in the year to July 2025.
Public safety
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New York City Shootings and Felony Assaults by Year
Shootings in 2025 were the fewest in the NYPD's open files, which begin in 2006; recorded felony assaults passed 1998's count, on a definition that has widened.
Built for New York's shootings fell to the fewest on file; its felony assaults are back at late-1990s levels
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NYC Ambulance Response Times by Month and Borough
Ambulance response to calls ultimately classed as life-threatening rose by a minute and three-quarters in fiscal 2026, to the slowest year in the city's figures since…
Built for The ambulance is slower: where the extra time goes
Transport
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NYC Commute Times: Census Microdata on Resident Workers
The hour-long commute in New York is a matter of address and vehicle far more than pay.
Built for The hour-plus commute
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NYC Congestion Pricing: Daily Toll-Zone Entries
Twenty months in, fewer vehicles are entering Manhattan's toll zone than in its first year, but a count at the door is not a measure of congestion.
Built for Twenty months of the toll
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NYC Traffic Deaths by Road User
New York's thirty-year fall in road deaths belongs to people on foot and in cars. Deaths on two wheels rose, to about 71 a year in the early 2020s.
Built for New York's road deaths have fallen for a generation, except on two wheels
Work and pay
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NYC Remote Work and Commuting: Census Microdata
Working from home has settled rather than faded, and it has settled on the better paid.
Built for Who still goes to the office
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NYC Resident Workers: Industries, Occupations and Earnings
New York City has more payroll jobs than ever, a record 4.9 million in July 2026, and health care is its largest sector.
Built for What people do in New York
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NYC Workers Paid Under $30 an Hour
Through September 2026, 52% of wage-earning New Yorkers earned under $30 an hour.