Put the places on the 1894 ballot together your own way and see the city you get.
Each colored band is one place in your city, stacked on top of each other, so the top edge is your city's total. The dashed black line is the real New York City. The shaded strip at the right is 2021 to 2025, which are yearly estimates, not census counts. Hover or tap any year to see the numbers.
2021 to 2025 are yearly estimates, marked est. Your city's total is in bold. Places you left out are grayed in the table but still listed, so you can see what you took out.
GDP (gross domestic product) is the value of everything made and every service sold in a county in a year. The unemployment rate is the share of people who want a job and are looking for one but do not have one. Both are added up for the places you picked, and compared with the real New York City. Hover or tap any year to see the numbers.
The thick blue line is your city. The dashed black line is the real New York City. The thin colored lines are each place you picked. The shaded strip at the right is 2026 so far.
Each county's GDP and unemployment rate, every year they are published: unemployment from 1990 (New York City as a whole from 1976) and GDP from 2001. The Bronx became its own county in 1914, out of New York County. Queens County of 1894 is today's Queens County plus Nassau County. Mount Vernon's unemployment rate is published for the city; its GDP is not.
Population is the U.S. Census count taken every ten years, from 1900 to 2020, for each place as it is drawn today. 2021 to 2025 are the Census Bureau's yearly population estimates for July 1 of each year (the latest set, released in 2026); they are estimates built from births, deaths and moves since the 2020 count, not a count. Land area leaves out water. People per square mile is population divided by land area. Homes is the count of housing units in the 2020 census. Growth compares the 2025 estimate with 1900.
Why it starts in 1900. 1900 is the first census after Greater New York took effect on January 1, 1898, and after Nassau County was created out of Queens County in 1899. Before that the lines were different: the Bronx was split between New York County and Westchester County, and Nassau was part of Queens. Starting in 1900 keeps every piece the same place in every year.
What is not here. The Census Bureau's tables of age, race, income and the like require a key to download and are not broken out the same way back to 1900, so this page uses the counts that exist for every piece in every census: people, and in 2020, homes.
How the 1894 places line up with the pieces here. New York County in 1894 was Manhattan and the West Bronx; the Town of Westchester became the East Bronx in 1895, along with parts of East Chester and Pelham. Census counts for those Bronx parts do not exist separately back to 1900, so the Bronx is one piece. Queens County in 1894 is two pieces: the western towns, now the Borough of Queens, and the eastern towns, now Nassau County. Eastchester and Pelham here are the parts of those towns that stayed in Westchester, villages included. Mount Vernon is the city as it is today. Yonkers, New Rochelle and the rest of Westchester, and Suffolk County, were not on the 1894 ballot and are not here.
GDP comes from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, which publishes it for every county from 2001 to 2024; it is not published for cities or towns, so when you pick Mount Vernon, Eastchester or Pelham, the GDP and unemployment figures use all of Westchester County in their place. “Adjusted for inflation” is in 2017 dollars, so years can be compared; “dollars of each year” is what was counted at the time. Unemployment comes from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the New York State Department of Labor. New York City as a whole is published monthly from 1976; counties and Mount Vernon from 1990, so your city's line starts in 1990 and only the real New York City goes back to 1976. GDP for counties begins in 2001, the first year the Bureau of Economic Analysis published it; there is no county GDP before that. each year here is the average of its months, not seasonally adjusted, and your city's rate is its unemployed people divided by its labor force. 2026 is January to the latest month published. Eastchester and Pelham are not published, so Westchester County as a whole is used.
Sources: borough populations 1900 to 2010, NYC Department of City Planning, from the U.S. Census. Nassau County and the City of Mount Vernon, 1900 to 2010: U.S. Census decennial counts as compiled on each place's Wikipedia page. Towns of Eastchester and Pelham, 1900 to 2000: Westchester County Department of Planning, Population, 1900-2000, from the U.S. Census; 2010: U.S. Census, from New York State's town population table. 2021 to 2025 estimates: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 (counties and cities); the county figures match New York State's annual population estimates. 2020 population, 2020 housing units, land area and map shapes: U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb, Census 2020. Borough shapes: NYC Department of City Planning. GDP: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, CAGDP1, GDP by county. Unemployment: New York State Department of Labor, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.