As Residents Fled NYC In 2020, Bayside's Population Grew: Study

BAYSIDE, QUEENS — As the pandemic swept through New York last year residents fled many neighborhoods in droves, but more people moved to Bayside than those who left, according to a new study by the globe real estate firm CBRE.

The study, which looked at 29 million change-of-address requests filed with the U.S. Postal Service last year, provided ZIP code-based insights into which neighborhoods across the country saw the most people leave — and where those residents relocated to.

New York City was already shrinking before 2020, and once it became a national epicenter of the pandemic residents began to flee in droves — more people moved out of New York City than almost any other city in the U.S. last year, second only to San Francisco, the study found.

Many of those who moved headed to Sun Belt cities like Austin and Charlotte, which gained new residents according to the study.

Over 150,000 people moved out of Queens in 2020, a 10 percent increase from the year before, the study found. (However, the study doesn’t include ZIP codes with fewer than 10,000 individuals, so data is missing from some of the borough’s neighborhoods.)

But, in Bayside’s three ZIP codes, 4,654 people moved out in 2020, while 4,680 moved in — a net increase of 26 residents.

While the neighborhood's net-gain is small, it's more than the previous year, when 60 people moved out of the neighborhood.

Here is the 2020 move-out data for each Bayside ZIP code:

11360 — Bayside (Bay Terrace): 1,164 move-ins, 1,107 move-outs — net gain of 57 residents
11361 — North Bayside: 1,755 move-ins, 1,755 move-outs — a net zero number of residents moving in and out
11364 — South Bayside: 1,761 move-ins, 1,792 move-outs — net loss of 31 residents

Bayside’s northernmost ZIP code, 11360, gained a net-total of 57 residents, and the northern part of the neighborhood, ZIP code 11361, had just as many residents move in as those who moved away.

South Bayside, ZIP code 11364, is the neighborhood’s only area to have a net-loss of 31 residents, which amounts to 3 per 1,000 people.

The researchers found that people who moved last year went only a short distance, often to a nearby county. Likewise, this increase in the number of people moving to Bayside — a residential, almost suburban neighborhood — reflects a citywide trend of people moving from more densely populated ares of Manhattan into the outer boroughs.