New York – Census estimates show upstate New York’s largest cities continue to have flat or declining populations, The highest growth rate, 78 percent, was in Kiryas Joel.
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Buffalo had an estimated population of 270,000 last year, a loss of almost 1,000 people from the previous year for the struggling Rust Belt city.
Census officials say about 207,000 people lived in Rochester and that Syracuse had just more than 138,000. Rochester and Syracuse lost a few dozen people each over the year.
Albany’s population was up about 370 to almost 94,000.
Census officials have reported that the state’s population was up slightly to 19.5 million. Most of that growth was in New York City, with 8.4 million people.
The highest growth rate, 78 percent, was in Kiryas Joel, the Orange County enclave where Hasidic Jews predominate, with about 23,000.
kein yirbu
Burich hashem
The fastest growing and the poorest — what a distinction.
aronim or zalonim
its the nicest place for a chusit to live
\Mind your own bussiness. KJ is THE most sucessful kehilah in the world!
At the current growth rates, bli ayin hora, KJ will surpass Albany in our lifetime. Skvere and Kesser can’t be too far behind
Granted that there are many hardworking poor people in KJ.
But you seem to over look the reason why they are poor – the lack of any serious education. No education means no profession or decent salary. I forgot that they are too busy fightening with the other group to even bother with real issues.
as the Helige Rebbe always say, ורוח הקודש אומרת כן ירבה
yes, leidagehers walk the streets there…but they are besser menchen than you because of all the mitzvot they due.
The fact that forty million people are on food stamps is not part of the argument. I, for one, would like to know what percentage of people in kj are. If this makes me a self hating Jew fine, but there are questions that should be answered.
I would also like to know how large the families are and how many people work. I do not mind paying taxes for people who try to make ends meet but are unable to. That is what government is for. It is interesting that the more right wing commentators are not here to state how they feel their taxes are being misused on the poor.