141 New York City Tourism Statistics for 2026

How many tourists visit New York City each year?

New York City is close to its 2019 visitor record again. Numbers have risen every year since the pandemic low of 2020, but growth slowed in 2025 and the year came in below the bureau's own forecast.

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New York City visitors a year, 2010 to 2025. The older years, 2010 to 2016, come from an archived copy of the bureau's statistics page; later years come from the bureau's own releases cited in this section. 2017 and 2021 are left out because no primary figure could be opened.

Period	Value
2010	48.8m
2011	50.9m
2012	52.7m
2013	54.3m
2014	56.5m
2015	58.5m
2016	60.5m
2018	65.0m
2019	66.6m
2020	22.3m
2022	56.4m
2023	62.2m
2024	64.3m
2025	65.0m

• The record year was 2019, with 66.6 million visitors. In 2020 the city welcomed 22.3 million. (NYC & Company (2021 release), Apr 2021)
• The city had 65 million visitors in 2018, and in October 2019 NYC & Company forecast 66.9 million for 2019, which would make it the tenth year of growth in a row. (NYC & Company (2019 release), Oct 2019)
• Visitor numbers rose every year from 48.8 million in 2010 to 60.5 million in 2016. (NYC & Company (archived statistics page), Mar 2018)
• In 2022 the city welcomed an estimated 56.4 million visitors, up 71.4% on 2021 and 85% of the 2019 level. (NYC & Company (2022 year-end release), Dec 2022)
• The final count for 2023 was 62.2 million visitors, 50.6 million of them domestic and 11.6 million international, up 9.6% on 2022 and 93% of the 2019 level. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2023 annual report), 2024)
• The year-end estimate for 2024 was 64.3 million visitors, 97% of the 2019 record, with 51.3 million domestic and 13 million international visitors. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2024 year-end release), Dec 2024)
• In December 2024 the bureau forecast 67.6 million visitors for 2025, which would have been a full recovery; the year fell short of that. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2024 year-end release), Dec 2024)
• For 2026 the bureau forecasts 53.4 million domestic visitors, above the 2019 level, and 12.9 million international visitors, back to the 2024 level. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report), Mar 2026)
• Before the tournament, the bureau expected the FIFA World Cup 26 matches to bring 1.2 million visitors to the New York and New Jersey region, $3.3 billion of economic impact, $1.8 billion of it direct spending, and 26,000 jobs. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report), Mar 2026)

Visitor numbers are estimates modelled for the bureau by Tourism Economics and cover day and overnight visitors from the US and abroad; they are not a head count. The 2022 and 2024 figures are year-end estimates that were later revised slightly. The 2026 and World Cup figures are forecasts, not counts, and the World Cup forecast covers New York and New Jersey together.

Where do New York City's domestic visitors come from?

Most visitors are Americans, and the largest group comes from the tristate area around the city. Domestic visits split roughly evenly between day trips and overnight stays.

• Overnight trips 26.5m
• Day trips 24.8m

• Domestic visitors numbered 52.4 million in 2025, up 1.7% on 2024. The top five domestic markets were the New York City tristate area, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Los Angeles and Boston. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report), Mar 2026)
• Overnight trips rose 2.3% in 2025 and made up 51% of domestic visits. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report), Mar 2026)
• Counted by purpose, leisure travel also came to 52.4 million visitors in 2025, 99% of the 2019 peak, and business travel to 12.6 million, still slightly behind 2019; the bureau forecasts 12.8 million business visitors for 2026. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report), Mar 2026)
• In 2024, 26.5 million domestic visits were overnight trips, 52% of the total, and day trips reached 24.8 million, back to the 2019 level. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2024 year-end release), Dec 2024)
• In 2023 there were 25.9 million domestic overnight visits and 24.6 million day trips. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2023 annual report), 2024)

Domestic and leisure visitors are two different cuts of the same total, one by where visitors live and one by why they came, and both happen to come to 52.4 million in 2025. The 2024 split is from the year-end estimate.

Where do New York City's international visitors come from?

The United Kingdom has been the largest foreign market for at least a decade, with Canada close behind. European countries make up most of the other large markets.

1. 1 United Kingdom 1.24m
2. 2 China 951k
3. 3 Canada 928k
4. 4 Brazil 818k
5. 5 France 745k
6. 6 Australia 684k
7. 7 Germany 648k
8. 8 Italy 530k
9. 9 Mexico 448k
10. 10 Spain 423k

• On the bureau's count, visits from the UK rose 1.3% in 2025, from Italy 5.5% and from Mexico 1.8%, while its international total fell. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report), Mar 2026)
• The UK sent 1.1 million visitors in 2024, the most of any country, followed by Canada with about 1 million. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2024 year-end release), Dec 2024)
• In 2023 France, Italy, Germany and Spain together sent more than 2.3 million visitors, and the bureau described New York City as the largest international destination in the US. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2023 annual report), 2024)
• International visitors rose from 9.8 million in 2010 to 12.7 million in 2016. (NYC & Company (archived statistics page), Mar 2018)
• In 2022 international visits more than tripled on 2021, to 8.9 million. (NYC & Company (2022 year-end release), Dec 2022)
• Across New York State, international arrivals fell 6.3% in 2025 because of a sharp drop in Canadian visitors; Canadian visitor spending in the state fell 28% to $1.23 billion and overseas visitor spending 1.5% to $17.91 billion. (Empire State Development (2025 tourism study), Aug 2026)

The bureau's international figures include Canada and Mexico. The federal overseas count in the next section leaves them out and uses a different survey, so the two are different measures and their trends are not combined. The 2016 market table is old and labelled with its year. The state figures cover all of New York State, including areas outside the city.

How does New York City rank for overseas visitors?

On the federal count of overseas visitors, the New York metro area is the most visited place in the US. Its share of overseas holiday and business travellers is smaller than it was in the early 2010s.

1. 1 New York City 973k
2. 2 Los Angeles 664k
3. 3 Miami 444k
4. 4 San Francisco 312k
5. 5 Chicago 271k

• In 2024 the New York City metro area had 9,525,000 overseas visitors, the most of any US city, and New York State was the top state, with 9,802,000. (NTTO (cities visited 2024), 2025)
• Florida overtook New York as the top state for overseas visitors in 2025, with 9,340,000. (NTTO (cities visited 2025), 2026)
• 29.6% of overseas holiday visitors to the US went to New York City in 2025, down from 31.0% in 2024 and a peak of 37.1% in 2009 and 2011. (NTTO (holiday visitor profile), 2026)
• 21.6% of overseas holiday visitors cleared US customs at New York in 2025 (22.2% in 2024 and 20.1% in 2019), more than at any other port of entry; Miami was next, at 17.3%, and Los Angeles third, at 10.8%. (NTTO (holiday visitor profile), 2026)
• New York City was the top US city for overseas business travellers in 2024, with 973,000. (NTTO (travel market profiles), 2025)
• New York City's share of overseas business visitors to the US was 20.3% in 2025, against 28.5% in 2011. (NTTO (business visitor profile), 2026)
• Overseas visitors spent $32.1 billion in New York State in 2024, the most of any state, supporting 156,840 jobs. (NTTO (state economies), Apr 2026)

NTTO counts overseas visitors only, leaving out Canada and Mexico, from a survey of international air travellers, and its city figure covers the New York metro area, including parts of New Jersey and Long Island. NYC Tourism + Conventions counts all international visitors to the five boroughs with a different model, so the two series move differently and are not combined. The state spending figure includes spending by overseas students and covers direct spending only.

How much do visitors spend in New York City?

Visitor spending in the city has grown each year since 2022, in dollars not adjusted for inflation. International visitors bring in a much larger share of the money than of the visitors.

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Direct visitor spending in New York City, 2010 to 2016, in billions of dollars, from an archived copy of the bureau's statistics page. Spending rose every year.

Period	Value
2010	$31.5bn
2011	$34.5bn
2012	$36.9bn
2013	$38.8bn
2014	$41.2bn
2015	$42.3bn
2016	$43.0bn

• Visitor spending generated $7.5 billion in local and state taxes in 2025. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report), Mar 2026)
• For 2024 the bureau estimated $79 billion of economic impact, including more than $51 billion of direct spending, and more than $6.8 billion of tax revenue, which it said saved each city household around $2,000. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2024 year-end release), Dec 2024)
• For 2023 it estimated $74 billion of economic impact, more than $48 billion of direct spending and more than $6 billion of tax revenue. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2023 year-end release), Dec 2023)
• For 2022 NYC & Company estimated more than $40 billion of direct visitor spending and about $60 billion of total economic impact. (NYC & Company (2022 year-end release), Dec 2022)
• Before the pandemic, direct visitor spending rose from $31.5 billion in 2010 to $43.0 billion in 2016. (NYC & Company (archived statistics page), Mar 2018)

These are estimates for NYC Tourism + Conventions, formerly NYC & Company, by Tourism Economics. Economic impact adds indirect and induced effects to direct spending and includes spillover into the state economy. Figures for 2022 to 2024 are year-end estimates. The method may have changed since 2016, so the older series is shown on its own. The state tourism study in the next section is a separate study with a different definition of a visitor, and its figures are not compared with these.

What does New York State's tourism study say about spending in the city?

The state's study, which counts visitors differently from the city bureau, puts visitor spending in New York City at a new high in 2025. Manhattan takes almost three-quarters of it, and Queens comes second because of its two airports.

• Manhattan 72%
• Queens 19%
• Brooklyn 6%
• Bronx 2%
• Staten Island 1%

• On the state study's definition, visitors spent $61.3 billion across New York City in 2025, up 4.0% on 2024; the city accounts for 63% of all visitor spending in New York State. (Empire State Development (2025 tourism study), Aug 2026)
• On the same study, visitor spending in the city was $26,476.9 million in 2021, $48,077.3 million in 2022, $54,625.0 million in 2023 and $58,945.3 million in 2024. (Empire State Development (2025 tourism study), Aug 2026)
• Manhattan took 72% of visitor spending in 2025, or $44.2 billion, and Queens 19%; Brooklyn had 6%, the Bronx 2% and Staten Island 1%. (Empire State Development (2025 tourism study), Aug 2026)
• Lodging made up 30% of visitor spending and food and drink 23%; transport came to $10.6 billion, or 17%, the same share as retail, and recreation took 12%. (Empire State Development (2025 tourism study), Aug 2026)
• Tourism generated $7.7 billion in state and local taxes in the city in 2025, $4.5 billion local and $3.2 billion state, worth $2,307 for each household. (Empire State Development (2025 tourism study), Aug 2026)
• Tourism produced $20.3 billion of direct personal income in the city in 2025, and $31.6 billion including indirect and induced effects, 5.4% of all personal income. (Empire State Development (2025 tourism study), Aug 2026)
• The 2024 edition of the study put tourism's state and local taxes in the city at $7.4 billion for 2024. (Empire State Development (2024 tourism study), Jul 2025)
• Across New York State, 321.2 million visitors spent $97.6 billion in 2025, up 1.1% and 3.9%, for a total economic impact of $152.7 billion and $11.9 billion of state and local taxes. (Empire State Development (2025 tourism study), Aug 2026)

This study, prepared by Tourism Economics for Empire State Development, counts as a visitor anyone who stayed overnight or travelled more than 50 miles, and includes second homes and air transport. It is a different study from the NYC Tourism + Conventions figures, so the two are not compared. Back years are revised to the current method, so the 2021-2025 series is consistent. 2025 international spending is preliminary. State figures cover all of New York State.

How many hotel rooms does New York City have, and how full are they?

New York City fills a larger share of its hotel rooms than any other big US market, and new rooms arrive slowly. Upscale hotels are the fullest, and midscale hotels lost ground in 2025.

1. 1 Upscale 87.5%
2. 2 All hotels 84.2%
3. 3 Luxury 82.2%
4. 4 Midscale 76.7%

• The city had approximately 124,000 hotel rooms across the five boroughs in 2025, up 2% on 2024, including six new hotels with 992 rooms. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report), Mar 2026)
• 24 hotel projects with 5,778 rooms are in active development through 2028. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report), Mar 2026)
• Hotels sold 38.1 million room nights in 2025, up 2% on 2024. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report), Mar 2026)
• Occupancy averaged 87.5% at upscale hotels in 2025, level with 2024, 82.2% at luxury hotels, up 1%, and 76.7% at midscale hotels, down 7%. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report), Mar 2026)
• The bureau booked 1,515 meetings and events in 2025, generating almost 345,000 definite room nights. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report), Mar 2026)
• In the week of 11 to 17 October 2026, Manhattan hotels were 92.5% full at an average rate of $484.55 a night, with a midweek peak of 96.7%, and Times Square hotels were 94.7% full at $389.17. (Times Square Alliance (weekly report), Oct 2026)
• More than 14,000 property owners and managers have put their buildings on the city's prohibited list, which bars short-term rental registrations there. (NYC Office of Special Enforcement, 2026)

Hotel figures are published by NYC Tourism + Conventions from hotel survey data and cover hotels only, not short-term rentals. The class changes are as the bureau states them. The October 2026 figures describe one peak-season week, not an annual average. The short-term rental figure, published by the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement in 2026, counts owners and managers who have opted their buildings out, not rentals.

How much does New York City's hotel tax raise?

The city's hotel occupancy tax raised a record amount in tax year 2025, driven more by higher room rates than by more rooms. Manhattan hotels account for about three-quarters of it.

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Hotel occupancy tax liability by tax year, 2013 to 2025, in millions of dollars, each year as published in that year's Department of Finance statistical profile.

Period	Value
2013	$530.2m
2014	$556.2m
2015	$561.9m
2016	$568.0m
2017	$582.8m
2018	$623.0m
2019	$624.3m
2020	$69.1m
2021	$234.0m
2022	$626.3m
2023	$696.6m
2024	$769.2m
2025	$816.6m

• Liability was $769 million in tax year 2024, so tax year 2025 was 6% higher; the Department of Finance says growth came from a 4% rise in the average daily room rate. (NYC Department of Finance (tax year 2025 profile), Oct 2026)
• In tax year 2025, 874 taxpayers, including online resellers, paid the tax on 40 million rooms rented, up 2%, with total rent of $12.5 billion. (NYC Department of Finance (tax year 2025 profile), Oct 2026)
• 76% of tax year 2025 liability, $618 million, was incurred in Manhattan; Queens accounted for 4.8%, Brooklyn 3.6% and the Bronx 0.5%, and online resellers, which are not assigned to a borough, 15%. (NYC Department of Finance (tax year 2025 profile), Oct 2026)
• Half of the liability came from hotels with average daily rent between $250 and $500, and hotels charging more than $700 a night produced 10.8%. (NYC Department of Finance (tax year 2025 profile), Oct 2026)
• The tax is 5.875% of the room rent plus $2 per room per night for rooms of $40 or more, charged on top of sales tax. It was first imposed in 1970, and the current rate runs to 30 November 2027. (NYC Department of Finance (tax year 2025 profile), Oct 2026)
• Liability collapsed to $69.090 million in tax year 2020, during the pandemic. (NYC Department of Finance (tax year 2020 profile), Jun 2021)

Figures are tax liability from the Department of Finance statistical profiles, labelled by the Department's own tax years, not cash collections by city fiscal year. Tax year 2021 included a period when the percentage part of the tax was set to zero. Liability is calculated from tax returns on rooms rented, a different basis from the hotel survey in the previous section, so the Department's 4% room rate rise is not the same measure as the bureau's average rate.

How many passengers fly into New York?

The three big airports serving New York handled fewer passengers in 2025 than in the record year of 2024, and the Port Authority reports a further fall in the first half of 2026. JFK is the international gateway, while LaGuardia is almost all domestic.

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Passengers at JFK a year, 2019 to 2025, arrivals and departures combined. JFK passed its 2019 level in 2024 and slipped back slightly in 2025.

Period	Value
2019	62.57m
2020	16.63m
2021	30.76m
2022	55.08m
2023	62.08m
2024	63.27m
2025	62.63m

• JFK handled 62,629,455 passengers in 2025, 34,528,047 of them on international flights and 28,101,408 on domestic ones, down from a record 63,265,984 in 2024. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (2025 traffic report), Apr 2026)
• Newark Liberty, in New Jersey, handled 47,000,085 passengers in 2025, down from 48,985,192, after runway works and FAA flight limits; its international traffic still reached a record 15,384,277. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (2025 traffic report), Apr 2026)
• LaGuardia handled 32,791,050 passengers in 2025, down from a record 33,543,943 in 2024; 94.8% of its departing passengers flew domestic. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (2025 traffic report), Apr 2026)
• International passengers across the Port Authority airports totalled 51,602,491 in 2025, down 1.4%, with a monthly record of 5.5 million in August. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (2025 traffic report), Apr 2026)
• Delta carried 18,538,618 passengers at JFK in 2025, 29.6% of the total, ahead of JetBlue (14,517,259) and American (7,438,400); British Airways was the largest foreign airline, with 1,299,498. At Newark, United carried 31,907,752, or 67.9%. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (2025 traffic report), Apr 2026)
• 24.4% of departing passengers at the Port Authority airports in 2025 lived outside the US, rising to 33.2% at JFK, where residents of Europe made up 15.3% of departures. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (2025 traffic report), Apr 2026)
• 81.9% of departing passengers were travelling for leisure or personal reasons and 18.1% for business; LaGuardia had the highest business share, at 25.0%, and JFK the highest leisure share, at 86.6%. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (2025 traffic report), Apr 2026)
• The Port Authority estimates that visitors arriving through its airports generated $34.8 billion of economic activity and supported 163,212 jobs in the New York and New Jersey region in 2025. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (2025 traffic report), Apr 2026)
• 85,282 people held security badges to work at the Port Authority airports in 2025, 44,791 of them at JFK. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (2025 traffic report), Apr 2026)
• The Port Authority airports served 67 million passengers in the first half of 2026, down 2% on the same period of 2025; international travel fell 4% and JFK 5%, LaGuardia served 15.3 million (down 3%) and Newark 22.8 million (up 3%). (Port Authority of NY and NJ (first half 2026), Jul 2026)

Passenger counts add arrivals and departures and include residents and connecting passengers, so they are not a count of visitors. The Port Authority system total includes Stewart, about 60 miles north of the city, and Newark, which is in New Jersey. International passengers include US residents flying abroad. Shares of departing passengers come from an airport survey. The visitor impact estimate is the Port Authority's own model. The 2026 figures are as the Port Authority reported them in July 2026.

How do visitors get to and around New York City?

The subway carries most trips around the city, and its busiest station is Times Square. Ridership is rising but is still well below 2019, and ride-hailing is the most common way to reach the airports.

1. 1 Times Sq-42 St 61.2m
2. 2 Grand Central-42 St 35.8m
3. 3 34 St-Herald Sq 26.3m
4. 4 14 St-Union Sq 24.3m
5. 5 Fulton St 20.5m

• The subway carried 1,281,883,362 rides in 2025, up 7.3% on 2024 and about 75% of the 2019 level. (MTA, 2026)
• Times Sq-42 St was the busiest station in 2025, with 61,203,303 entries, followed by Grand Central-42 St (35,764,931) and 34 St-Herald Sq (26,328,230). (MTA, 2026)
• PATH trains between New Jersey and Manhattan carried 31.4 million passengers in the first half of 2026, up 7.5% and the most for those months since 2020; June 2026, with 5.9 million, was the busiest month since March 2020. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (first half 2026), Jul 2026)
• 28.8% of departing passengers reached the Port Authority airports by ride-hailing services such as Uber in 2025, and 41.4% at LaGuardia; 15.9% reached JFK by rail or subway. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (2025 traffic report), Apr 2026)
• The Manhattan and Brooklyn cruise terminals handled about 1.5 million passengers in 2024, activity worth about $500 million that supported nearly 3,000 local jobs. (NYCEDC, Nov 2025)
• A master plan for the Manhattan Cruise Terminal would let it berth up to two 8,000-passenger ships and one 6,000-passenger ship at the same time. (NYCEDC, Nov 2025)

Subway rides count entries, so transfers are not counted, and they include residents and commuters. Penn Station appears as two separate stations in the MTA table. Cruise figures are for 2024, the latest full year published by the city's economic development corporation, and leave out Cape Liberty in Bayonne, New Jersey. Airport access shares come from a survey of departing passengers.

When is the best time to visit New York City?

Summer is the busiest season and February the quietest. May and September are mild and less crowded than July and August, and the winter holidays bring a short peak of their own.

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Passengers a month at the Port Authority airports in 2025. August was the busiest month on record and February the quietest.

Period	Value
Jan	10.69m
Feb	9.62m
Mar	11.61m
Apr	11.88m
May	12.10m
Jun	12.43m
Jul	13.31m
Aug	13.78m
Sep	11.70m
Oct	12.26m
Nov	11.18m
Dec	12.15m

• August 2025 was the busiest month ever at the Port Authority airports, with 13.8 million passengers, 6.2 million of them at JFK; February was the quietest month, with 9.6 million. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (2025 traffic report), Apr 2026)
• Statue of Liberty visits in 2025 peaked in July (495,830) and August (462,838) and were lowest in February (120,124). (National Park Service, 2026)
• A record 5.8 million passengers used the Port Authority airports over the year-end holidays from 22 December 2025 to 4 January 2026: 2.48 million at JFK, 2.06 million at Newark and 1.20 million at LaGuardia. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (holiday travel), Jan 2026)
• A record 2.14 million passengers moved through the airports over the Memorial Day period of 21 to 26 May 2026, about 50,000 more than in 2025. (Port Authority of NY and NJ (first half 2026), Jul 2026)
• July is the warmest month in Central Park, with an average high of 84.9F and low of 70.1F; January is the coldest, at 39.5F by day and 27.9F at night. (NOAA, 2021)
• Average highs are 71.4F in May and 76.2F in September, the mild months either side of summer. (NOAA, 2021)
• Central Park gets 49.52 inches of precipitation a year, spread evenly across the months, and 29.8 inches of snow, most of it from December to March; February is the snowiest month, with 10.1 inches. (NOAA, 2021)
• Central Park averages 17.4 days a year at 90F or hotter and 67.3 nights at or below freezing; the average temperature across the year is 55.8F. (NOAA, 2021)

Monthly airport counts include residents and cover Newark and Stewart as well as JFK and LaGuardia. Holiday periods are as the Port Authority defines them. Temperatures are 1991-2020 climate normals in degrees Fahrenheit for the Central Park station. No free official monthly hotel occupancy series for the city was found, so airport and Statue of Liberty counts are used to show the seasons.

What are the most visited attractions in New York City?

Free, open-air places draw the largest crowds, led by Central Park and the 9/11 Memorial. The Statue of Liberty is still below its 2019 numbers.

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Recreation visits to the Statue of Liberty National Monument a year, 2015 to 2025. Visits recovered quickly after 2020 but have not regained the 2016 high.

Period	Value
2015	4.28m
2016	4.50m
2017	4.44m
2018	4.34m
2019	4.24m
2020	0.58m
2021	1.56m
2022	3.14m
2023	3.74m
2024	3.72m
2025	3.54m

• The Statue of Liberty National Monument, which covers Liberty Island and Ellis Island, had 3,722,029 recreation visits in 2024 and 4,240,461 in 2019. (National Park Service, 2026)
• Castle Clinton in Battery Park, where Statue of Liberty ferry tickets are sold, recorded 3,656,350 visits in 2025, against 3,822,759 in 2024 and 4,361,034 in 2019. (National Park Service, 2026)
• The ticketed 9/11 Museum welcomed 2.4 million visitors in 2025. (9/11 Memorial & Museum (2025 annual report), Apr 2026)
• In 2024 the 9/11 Memorial welcomed 11.6 million visitors, and the Museum count was the same in both years. (9/11 Memorial & Museum (2024 annual report), Mar 2025)
• Central Park receives more than 42 million visits a year, on the Central Park Conservancy's estimate. (Central Park Conservancy, 2025)
• Gateway National Recreation Area, which includes Jamaica Bay and parts of Staten Island as well as Sandy Hook in New Jersey, had 7,696,939 recreation visits in 2025. (National Park Service, 2026)
• Hamilton Grange National Memorial in Manhattan had 97,253 recreation visits in 2025. (National Park Service, 2026)
• Times Square averaged 248,291 pedestrians a day in the week of 19 to 25 October 2026, against 222,948 in the same week of 2025. (Times Square Alliance (weekly report), Oct 2026)
• The Times Square Alliance says the district regularly sees 200,000 to 250,000 pedestrians a day, and as many as 330,000 on the busiest days. (Times Square Alliance, 2026)

Park figures are recreation visits, not individual people, summed from National Park Service monthly data. Castle Clinton and the Statue of Liberty largely count the same ferry passengers, so they are not added together. The Memorial plaza is free and open, so its count is an estimate, while the Museum is ticketed. The Central Park figure is a standing estimate, and most visits are by residents. Times Square counts come from automated cameras and include workers and residents.

How many people see a Broadway show?

Broadway sells close to 15 million admissions a season, and its box office takings are a record in cash terms. Visitors from outside the New York area buy most of the tickets.

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Broadway gross takings by season, in millions of dollars, for the last full season before the pandemic and the four most recent seasons.

Period	Value
2018-19	$1,829m
2022-23	$1,578m
2023-24	$1,539m
2024-25	$1,893m
2025-26	$1,911m

• Audiences filled 90.8% of available seats in the 2025-26 season. Gross takings rose 1.0% and attendance fell 0.6% on 2024-25, which had 53 weeks. (The Broadway League (season release), May 2026)
• The 2018-19 season, the last full one before the pandemic, grossed $1,829 million from 14.77 million attendances, still the attendance record. (The Broadway League (season statistics), May 2026)
• Grosses were $1,578 million in 2022-23 and $1,539 million in 2023-24, from 12.28 million and 12.29 million attendances. (The Broadway League (season statistics), May 2026)
• The average paid admission was $131.09 in 2025-26, up from $129.12 in 2024-25; plays averaged $139.55 and musicals $128.83. (The Broadway League (season detail), May 2026)
• Play attendance rose to 3,316,722 in 2025-26 from 2,875,162, while musical attendance fell to 11,232,843 from 11,758,735. (The Broadway League (season detail), May 2026)
• The Broadway League estimates that Broadway contributed $21 billion to the city's economy in the 2024-25 season and supported 114,600 full-time equivalent jobs. (The Broadway League (economic contribution), Oct 2026)
• International visitors were 19% of Broadway tourists but brought 42% of the money they spent in the city. (The Broadway League (economic contribution), Oct 2026)
• In the 2022-23 season, 17% of admissions, about 2.1 million, were by people from other countries, 47.5% by Americans from outside the New York area and about 35% by people from the New York metro area. (The Broadway League (audience demographics), Dec 2023)

Grosses are in dollars not adjusted for inflation, so the record is a cash record, and the 2024-25 season had 53 weeks. Attendance counts admissions, including free tickets. The $21 billion is a total economic contribution with multiplier effects, not ticket sales, and Broadway tourists are visitors from outside the city who say Broadway was a very important reason for their trip. The audience shares are from the 2022-23 season, the latest free edition.

How many jobs does tourism support in New York City?

The answer depends on the measure. The city tourism bureau, the state study and the federal payroll count each give a different figure, and they are not added together or compared. On the federal count, leisure and hospitality jobs are still below their 2019 level.

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Leisure and hospitality payroll jobs in New York City, annual average, 2010 to 2025, in thousands. The 2019 high has not been regained.

Period	Value
2010	323.1k
2011	343.2k
2012	366.8k
2013	386.7k
2014	409.9k
2015	429.4k
2016	441.8k
2017	458.8k
2018	464.4k
2019	468.1k
2020	275.7k
2021	306.0k
2022	402.2k
2023	435.6k
2024	447.9k
2025	451.5k

• NYC Tourism + Conventions says the tourism sector accounts for 397,000 jobs in 2025. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report), Mar 2026)
• The bureau's December 2024 estimate put 2024 at over 388,000 leisure and hospitality jobs, about 9% of the city workforce. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2024 year-end release), Dec 2024)
• For 2023 the bureau estimated over 380,000 leisure and hospitality jobs. (NYC Tourism + Conventions (2023 year-end release), Dec 2023)
• For 2022 NYC & Company estimated about 410,000 jobs in the full leisure and hospitality sector. (NYC & Company (2022 year-end release), Dec 2022)
• The state tourism study counts 383,465 jobs supported by tourism in the city in 2025, 8.2% of all jobs, including 276,428 direct jobs; 242,911 of the total were in Manhattan and 91,450 in Queens. (Empire State Development (2025 tourism study), Aug 2026)
• The 2024 edition of the state study gave 375,281 tourism jobs in the city for 2024. (Empire State Development (2024 tourism study), Jul 2025)
• On the federal payroll count, leisure and hospitality employment in New York City averaged 451,500 jobs in 2025, out of 4,817,500 jobs in all industries. (BLS (leisure and hospitality jobs), Nov 2026)
• Leisure and hospitality jobs fell from 433,000 in March 2020 to 156,800 in April 2020. (BLS (leisure and hospitality jobs), Nov 2026)
• There were 443,100 leisure and hospitality jobs in September 2026 (preliminary), against 458,500 a year earlier. (BLS (leisure and hospitality jobs), Nov 2026)
• Hotels and other accommodation employed 46,400 people in 2025, against 53,400 in 2019. (BLS (accommodation jobs), Nov 2026)
• Arts, entertainment and recreation employed 90,900 people in 2025 (95,000 in 2019), and accommodation and food services 360,600 (373,000 in 2019). (BLS (arts and food services jobs), Nov 2026)

The three measures count different things. The bureau's figures are modelled jobs supported by tourism, and its label has changed between releases. The state study uses a federal definition that includes the self-employed and part-time jobs, and adds indirect and induced jobs. The BLS figures count payroll jobs located in the city in leisure and hospitality, serving residents as well as visitors; they are not seasonally adjusted and are revised each year. Broadway and airport job estimates elsewhere on this page are separate measures again.

Is New York City safe for visitors?

Murders fell in 2025 to the lowest level in the NYPD series that starts in 2000, and complaints for the main felonies fell slightly. Preliminary figures for 2026 so far are lower again.

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Complaints for the seven major felonies in New York City a year, 2018 to 2025. Counts rose in 2021 and 2022 and have eased since 2023.

Period	Value
2018	95.9k
2019	95.6k
2020	95.6k
2021	102.7k
2022	126.6k
2023	126.8k
2024	123.9k
2025	121.7k

• There were 382 murders in 2024 and 673 in 2000. (NYPD (historical crime data), Jan 2026)
• The NYPD recorded 2,262 murders in 1990. (NYPD (CompStat), Nov 2026)
• Complaints for the seven major felonies totalled 121,652 in 2025, down 1.8% from 123,890 in 2024, and 184,652 in 2000. (NYPD (historical crime data), Jan 2026)
• Seven major felony complaints were 95,606 in 2019 and 126,786 in 2023. (NYPD (historical crime data), Jan 2026)
• From the start of 2026 to 1 November, the NYPD recorded 229 murders, against 274 in the same period of 2025, 96,388 seven major felony complaints, down 6.5%, and 649 shooting victims, down 13.1%. These figures are preliminary. (NYPD (CompStat), Nov 2026)
• Over the same 2026 period robbery was down 12.4% and burglary 14.3%, while felony assault was up 1.0% (preliminary). (NYPD (CompStat), Nov 2026)
• In the 14th Precinct, Midtown South, which covers Times Square and Penn Station, seven major felony complaints were 3,146 in 2025, against 3,423 in 2024, 4,288 in 2022 and 6,857 in 2000; grand larceny was the largest category, at 1,758. (NYPD (crime data by precinct), Jan 2026)

Figures are NYPD complaint counts under New York State law, not FBI definitions, and cover residents as well as visitors, so they are not rates for visitors. The seven major felonies are murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny of a motor vehicle. The 2026 figures are from the weekly CompStat report for the week ending 1 November 2026; they are preliminary and the linked file is replaced each week. Precinct counts reflect a very large daytime population of workers and visitors.

Methodology and sources

Visitor, spending and hotel figures come from NYC Tourism + Conventions, the city tourism bureau, and each is labelled with the release it comes from; the 2010-2016 figures come from an archived copy of the bureau's statistics page, and a later homepage figure that conflicts with the bureau's own annual report is not used. The state tourism study comes from Empire State Development, overseas visitors from NTTO, payroll jobs from BLS, the hotel tax from the NYC Department of Finance, airports from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Broadway from the Broadway League, park visits from the National Park Service, crime from the NYPD and climate normals from NOAA. Each number links to the body that produced it, with the date. Measures that count different things, such as the bureau and state spending studies, the three jobs counts, and the bureau and federal international counts, are given separately and are not merged or compared. Forecasts are labelled as forecasts. Items we could not confirm at the primary source, including museum attendance and marathon and tennis crowds, are left out. The page is reviewed monthly and the date is shown at the top.

• 9/11 Memorial & Museum (2024 annual report) · Mar 2025
• 9/11 Memorial & Museum (2025 annual report) · Apr 2026
• BLS (accommodation jobs) · Nov 2026
• BLS (arts and food services jobs) · Nov 2026
• BLS (leisure and hospitality jobs) · Nov 2026
• Central Park Conservancy · 2025
• Empire State Development (2024 tourism study) · Jul 2025
• Empire State Development (2025 tourism study) · Aug 2026
• MTA · 2026
• National Park Service · 2026
• National Park Service · 2026
• National Park Service · 2026
• National Park Service · 2026
• NOAA · 2021
• NOAA · 2021
• NTTO (business visitor profile) · 2026
• NTTO (cities visited 2024) · 2025
• NTTO (cities visited 2025) · 2026
• NTTO (holiday visitor profile) · 2026
• NTTO (state economies) · Apr 2026
• NTTO (travel market profiles) · 2025
• NYC & Company (2019 release) · Oct 2019
• NYC & Company (2021 release) · Apr 2021
• NYC & Company (2022 year-end release) · Dec 2022
• NYC & Company (archived statistics page) · Mar 2018
• NYC Department of Finance (hotel tax profiles) · Oct 2026
• NYC Department of Finance (tax year 2020 profile) · Jun 2021
• NYC Office of Special Enforcement · 2026
• NYC Tourism + Conventions (2023 annual report) · 2024
• NYC Tourism + Conventions (2023 year-end release) · Dec 2023
• NYC Tourism + Conventions (2024 year-end release) · Dec 2024
• NYC Tourism + Conventions (2025 annual report) · Mar 2026
• NYCEDC · Nov 2025
• NYPD (CompStat) · Nov 2026
• NYPD (crime data by precinct) · Jan 2026
• NYPD (historical crime data) · Jan 2026
• Port Authority of NY and NJ (2025 traffic report) · Apr 2026
• Port Authority of NY and NJ (first half 2026) · Jul 2026
• Port Authority of NY and NJ (holiday travel) · Jan 2026
• The Broadway League (audience demographics) · Dec 2023
• The Broadway League (economic contribution) · Oct 2026
• The Broadway League (season detail) · May 2026
• The Broadway League (season release) · May 2026
• The Broadway League (season statistics) · May 2026
• Times Square Alliance · 2026
• Times Square Alliance (weekly report) · Oct 2026