NYC Housing Unit Change by Council District Since 2010

Net change in housing units from new buildings, demolitions, and alterations for New York City Council Districts. The data is derived from Department of Buildings-approved construction jobs filed or completed since January 1, 2010. It provides the 2010 census housing unit count, net change in Class A units, and units pending completion for political and statistical boundaries.

Use Cases

• Analyze net housing unit change trends across NYC Council Districts to inform urban policy and resource allocation.
• Model the relationship between new buildings, major alterations, and demolitions to forecast neighborhood housing capacity.
• Compare the count of units pending completion against net change figures to assess future housing supply by district.
• Calculate the change in legal housing units across time and space using the sum of three construction job types.

Strengths

• Data covers housing unit changes since January 1, 2010, providing over a decade of temporal coverage.
• Aggregated from the authoritative NYC Department of City Planning Housing Database.
• Includes key metrics such as the 2010 census count, net change in Class A units, and pending unit counts.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column count, and sample data are unavailable, limiting initial assessment of dataset scale and structure.
• Data is aggregated to political and statistical boundaries, which may obscure finer-grained, parcel-level trends.
• The license is not specified, which could create uncertainty for commercial or redistribution use cases.

Provenance

Source

NYC Department of City Planning's Housing Database, derived from Department of Buildings-approved jobs.

Collection Method

Aggregated from housing construction and demolition jobs filed or completed in NYC since 2010.

Time Range

Since January 1, 2010.

Freshness

Last updated on March 22, 2026, indicating recent maintenance; version 25q4 suggests quarterly updates.

Geography

New York City Council Districts.