Housing Vacancy Survey Every three years the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development in concert with the Census Bureau conducts a Housing Vacancy Survey to determine the rates of rental vacancies in the city as well as a whole host of other demographic data. For the purposes of the survey the census bureau has broken each of the boroughs into "sub-borough areas", defined by a set of census tracts. The areas contain several combined neighborhoods forming a group with a population over 100,000.

Does your organization represent a group of neighborhoods or an entire region of the borough? The sub-borough area index defines the combined neighborhoods.

For your convenience we have already taken the files off the web and converted them into Microsoft Excel format, so you can download them and open them in a spreadsheet. To download the file, select it below.

HVS Sub-Borough Areas:

The Bronx
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Queens
Staten Island

Also, a report released by the NYU Law School Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy entitled "State of New York City's Housing and Neighborhoods" contains excellent housing and demographic data and maps arranged by Community District and Sub-borough Area.

Click here to view the report by district or borough

Click here to download the entire report [19mb]

Do you have the census tract numbers you need? Click to continue