Uptown Coronavirus Death Rates Among Highest In Manhattan: Data

UPTOWN, MANHATTAN — Washington Heights and Inwood have lost 420 people to the coronavirus pandemic, one of the highest death tolls in Manhattan during the crisis, new data shows.

The four zip codes that make up the two neighborhoods — 10032, 10033, 10034 and 10040 — all were in the top 10 highest death counts for Manhattan's 51 zip codes as of Monday, when health officials released long-awaited data on fatalities.

The zip codes were also on the higher end of death rates in the borough, which calculate the number of deaths per 100,000 people.

The numbers, as has other data on coronavirus cases, reveal that the virus has been running rampant in poor neighborhoods and among people of color even in Manhattan, the borough least hard-hit by the virus. The zip code with the highest death rate in the borough was Harlem's 10037.

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Here are the death tolls by zip code in Washington Heights and Inwood:

• 10032: 146 deaths, with a death rate of 237 per 100,000 people
• 10033: 107 deaths, with a death rate of 180 per 100,000 people
• 10040: 102 deaths, with a death rate of 227 per 100,000 people
• 10034: 65 deaths, with a death rate of 151 per 100,000 people

A number of the deaths in 10040 are likely from Isabella Geriatric Center, where 46 residents residents with confirmed coronavirus cases have died.

The death counts for all four zip codes, though unimaginable, are still lower than some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods in the outer boroughs. All 20 of the zip codes with the highest death counts were found in outer boroughs, the highest being West Queens zip code 11368, where 369 lives were lost.

But across all five boroughs, disparities were laid bare.

Those in the very high poverty bracket saw a death rate of 232.03 per 100,000 while low-poverty New Yorkers saw less than half that rate at 99.56, data show.

Black and Latino New Yorkers continue to die at about twice the rate of white New Yorkers, when adjusted for age, data show.

The death rate per 100,000 people is 212.79 for Hispanic New Yorkers, 204.79 for Black New Yorkers and 102.94 for white New Yorkers, data show.

The city data also listed zip code 10031 as Washington Heights-Inwood, though it is actually found in Harlem. That zip code saw 112 coronavirus deaths.t

To view the data culled from your zip code, go to New York City's COVID-19 data page.

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