Go east, young job hunter.
While Manhattan is still the heart of the city’s employment center, it’s the outer boroughs — especially Brooklyn — that are adding more jobs and at a much quicker rate.
Manhattan now accounts for 60.5 percent of all private-sector jobs in the city — the lowest percentage ever.
It’s down from 65.9 percent in 1982 and 63.1 percent in 2000, according to research by the Center for an Urban Future.
Brooklyn is the city’s fastest-growing job market and now accounts for 15.1 percent of jobs, a jump from 13.4 percent in 2000.
“It’s not that Manhattan is losing jobs. It’s that we have a much more diverse economy,” said the think tank’s executive director, Jonathan Bowles.
There are myriad reasons for faster outer-borough job growth.
Job sectors booming in the city — such as health care, education and retail sales — are “driven by population growth,” Bowles said.
And while Manhattan is still growing, “most of the city’s population growth has not been in Manhattan,” he said.
In addition, entrepreneurs who hadn’t seen many opportunities in the outer boroughs do so now.
So do employees. Brooklyn has benefitted from an influx of creative, highly educated workers who have fueled growth industries such as architecture, music and technology, Bowles said.
“DUMBO and Williamsburg have been real job drivers,” he said.