NYC Film Permits 🗽

Breakdown of 40,172 film permits issued in New York between July 12, 2011 and November 20, 2018.

Film permits by borough

  • Manhattan: 20,302 permits
  • Brooklyn: 12,085 permits
  • Queens: 6,201 permits
  • Bronx: 1,083 permits
  • Staten Island: 501 permits

Film permits by year

  • 2012: 6,928 permits
  • 2013: 8,071 permits
  • 2014: 8,002 permits
  • 2015: 8,871 permits

Film permits by production type*

  • Television: 21,175 permits
  • Film: 7,282 permits
  • Theater: 3,660 permits
  • Commercial: 3,434 permits
  • Still Photography: 2,609 permits
  • WEB: 1,388 permits
  • Student: 267 permits
  • Documentary: 205 permits
  • Music Video: 152 permits

Film permits by country of project's origin*

  • USA: 40,125 permits
  • UK: 10 permits
  • Japan: 8 permits
  • France: 7 permits
  • Panama: 7 permits
  • Canada: 6 permits
  • Australia: 5 permits
  • Netherlands: 3 permits
  • Germany: 1 permits

*This chart uses a logarithmic scale.

Attributions

This project is a remix of starter-chartjs by Lyzi Diamond. Read more about it on my blog.