Table 1.
WTCHR enrollment groupsa | Total | Source of Interview | Estimated population size | Estimated coverage | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
List-identified | Self-identified | |||||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
Total | 71,437 | 100.0 | 21,239 | 29.7 | 50,198 | 70.3 | 409,492 | 17.4 |
Rescue–recovery workers and volunteers | 30,665 | 42.9 | 11,387 | 37.1 | 19,278 | 62.9 | 91,469 | 33.5 |
New York City Police Department (NYPD) | 3,757 | 5.3 | 70 | 1.9 | 3,687 | 98.1 | 5,000b | 75.1 |
New York City Fire Department (FDNY) | 3,196 | 4.5 | 71 | 2.2 | 3,125 | 97.8 | 11,000 | 29.1 |
Emergency Medical Service (EMS), medical, or disaster personnel | 1,314 | 1.8 | 86 | 6.5 | 1,228 | 93.5 | N/A | N/A |
Construction or engineering | 4,363 | 6.1 | 2,512 | 57.6 | 1,851 | 42.4 | 20,397 | 21.4 |
NYC Department of Sanitation | 2,117 | 3.0 | 1,786 | 84.4 | 331 | 15.6 | 3,400 | 62.3 |
Volunteer organizations | 5,500 | 7.7 | 3,669 | 66.7 | 1,831 | 33.3 | 26,480 | 20.8 |
Unaffiliated volunteers | 1,889 | 2.6 | 461 | 24.4 | 1,428 | 75.6 | N/A | N/A |
State agencies | 336 | 0.5 | 81 | 24.1 | 255 | 75.9 | 8,897 | 3.8 |
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) | 436 | 0.6 | 288 | 66.1 | 148 | 33.9 | 3,499 | 12.5 |
Federal agencies (not including FEMA) | 1,577 | 2.2 | 399 | 25.3 | 1,178 | 74.7 | 5,122 | 30.8 |
Other | 6,180 | 8.7 | 1,964 | 31.8 | 4,216 | 68.2 | N/A | N/A |
Schools south of Canal Street | 2,646 | 3.7 | 397 | 15.0 | 2,249 | 85.0 | 15,197 | 17.4 |
Students (preK-12) | 2,075 | 2.9 | 289 | 13.9 | 1,786 | 86.1 | 12,466 | 16.6 |
Staff | 571 | 0.8 | 108 | 18.9 | 463 | 81.1 | 2,731 | 20.9 |
Residents south of Canal Street | 14,665 | 20.5 | 3,850 | 26.3 | 10,815 | 73.7 | 57,511 | 25.5 |
Lived south of Chambers Street on 9/11 | 8,170 | 11.4 | 2,241 | 27.4 | 5,929 | 72.6 | 21,926 | 37.3 |
Lived between Chambers and Canal Streets on 9/11 | 6,495c | 9.1 | 1,609 | 24.8 | 4,886 | 75.2 | 35,585 | 18.3 |
Building occupants, passersby, and people in transit south of Chambers Street on 9/11 | 43,487 | 60.9 | 9,859 | 22.7 | 33,628 | 77.3 | 362,092 | 12.0 |
Occupants of WTC towers or other damaged or destroyed buildings | 10,393 | 14.6 | 3,367 | 32.4 | 7,026 | 67.6 | 24,015 | 43.3 |
Occupants of other buildings nearby | 19,900 | 27.9 | 3,589 | 18.0 | 16,307 | 81.9 | 38,077 | 52.3 |
Passersby or people in transit | 13,194 | 18.5 | 2,903 | 22.0 | 10,295 | 78.0 | 300,000 | 4.4 |
N/A Data not available
aWTCHR eligibility groups are not mutually exclusive; approximately 26% of registrants belong to more than one eligibility group.
bThe estimated population of 5,000 NYPD workers is most likely an underestimate.
cIncludes 1,176 residents from zip codes 10002 and 10013 that lived north of Canal Street on 9/11.