There’s much to debate about what makes a real New Yorker.
Maybe it’s being born in the five boroughs. Or it could be knowing the subway routes without a map, being an all-weather Knicks fan, and braving the demoralizing walk to a laundromat in the rain.
But, really, the most typical NYC experience is being a 30-something with an above-average salary and an eye-watering rent bill. Business Insider looked at the data.
The average Big Apple resident is in their 30s
Often, to be a New Yorker is to be a millennial. Data from a NYC Planning analysis of the American Community Survey shows that the city’s median age is 38, just below the national median of 39. Sixty-five percent of residents fall between the ages of 18 and 64.
Brooklyn skews the youngest with a median age of 35, while Staten Island’s population is the oldest at 40.
