County Summary Report of Areas in New Jersey and New York Affected by Hurricane Sandy. Baseline Demographic and Economic Conditions Prior to the Storm with an Executive Summary that Includes Economic Indicators after the Storm.

摘要

Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey (NJ) on October 29, 2012. Several months after the storm stakeholders were still assessing the damage and the long-term economic effects on the region. To help with this effort, the Economic and Statistics Administration developed this report which provides baseline information on demographic and economic conditions in these areas. This report was requested by Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) who, with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is guiding the Federal effort to assist these areas in immediate and long-term recovery efforts. EDA provides these reports to state and local government officials who use them to develop a basis for justification for Federal assistance while EDA uses them to help determine their distribution of grants in the disaster area. This report provides several pre-Sandy baseline economic indicators. Population by age and sex and Income-median household income, poverty rates and per capita personal income--are provided for 2011 for each affected county Employment by industry for industries with paid employees and the self-employed are available and provided for 2010. County government revenue and expenditures are available for only a few of the counties in both NJ and New York (NY) for 2007. Federal contract award data by county are available for FY2012 and revenue and employment of firms headquartered in these counties for 2012 are provided at the end of this report and not summarized here.