Relatively few New York residents live above 1,000 ft
Only nine percent of New Yorkers live at elevations above 1,000 ft - probably even less if you were to do this at the block rather than the block group level
Only nine percent of New Yorkers live at elevations above 1,000 ft - probably even less if you were to do this at the block rather than the block group level
You can find the script that generates this on my GitHub under Town Population Density.R. Notice many towns that are on the whole sparely populated, are actually rather clustered in their population with a large amount of the land being forest preserve or parkland.