Wash Heights, Inwood ZIP Code Jumps To Over 20 Percent COVID Rate

UPPER MANHATTAN, NY — At the beginning of the omicron surge in New York City, Lower Manhattan was posting the highest COVID rates in the borough. That trend has now flipped to Upper Manhattan.

In the span of a week, the 10040 ZIP code, which covers the area from around West 187th Street to Dyckman Street, has gone from a COVID positivity rate of 8.34 percent to 20.05 percent.

From Dec. 19 to Dec. 25, one in every five residents getting tested for COVID in the 10040 ZIP code was testing positive for the virus.

Outside of Harlem — the current COVID hotspot in Manhattan — the Washington Heights and Inwood ZIP code boasts the second-highest positivity rate of any in the borough.

10040

Dec. 19-25

• 7-day percent positive: 20.05 percent
• New people positive: 507
• Median daily test rate: 2,529

Here's how those numbers compare to the week prior in the same Upper Manhattan ZIP code.

Dec. 13-19

• 7-day percent positive: 8.34 percent
• New people positive: 157
• Median daily test rate: 805

The COVID positivity rate in the neighboring 10034 ZIP code (Inwood) is almost identical.

The positivity rate for the area was 19.74 percent for the week of Dec. 19 through 25, a jump of over 10 percent from the week prior.

In Washington Height's 10032 and 10033 ZIP codes, the positivity rates are both 18 percent.

While the uptown rates have jumped in the past week, another trend to switch in the last seven days of recorded data is that the Bronx and Queens are now posting higher highest positivity rates than Manhattan.

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