NYC Adults who Have/Use Credit Cards
Have you used your credit cards more, less, or about the same in the past 12 months to help manage your own family budget?
More Less About the same
Row % Row % Row %
NYC Adults who Have/Use Credit Cards 12% 42% 46%
NYC Registered Voters 11% 42% 47%
Party Registration Democrat 9% 43% 48%
Republican 12% 41% 47%
Non-enrolled 14% 37% 48%
NYC Borough Bronx 9% 53% 38%
Brooklyn 12% 38% 50%
Manhattan 10% 34% 56%
Queens and Staten Island 14% 46% 40%
Income Less than $50,000 14% 50% 36%
$50,000 or more 12% 37% 52%
Race White 14% 30% 57%
African American 9% 54% 36%
Latino 9% 53% 37%
Education Not college graduate 11% 52% 37%
College graduate 12% 33% 55%
Age Under 45 16% 40% 44%
45 or older 8% 44% 48%
Generation Millennials (18-30) 16% 45% 39%
Gen X (31-46) 15% 37% 48%
Baby Boomers (47-65) 8% 50% 42%
Silent-Greatest (Over 65) 6% 29% 64%
Gender Men 10% 41% 50%
Women 14% 43% 43%
Households with children under 18 Household with children 16% 43% 41%
No children in household 8% 41% 50%
Union Member in Household 13% 44% 43%
Own or Rent Home Own 11% 37% 52%
Rent 12% 47% 41%
Interview Type Landline 11% 38% 51%
Cell Phone 14% 55% 31%
NY1/YNN-Marist Poll NYC Adults who Have/Use Credit Cards: Interviews conducted January 24th through 31st, 2011, N=510 MOE +/- 4.5%. Totals may not add to 100 due to rounding.