According to the 2010 census, the island has a year-round population of 492.
It has a year-round population of 170 with much higher numbers in summer.
"We have had eight deaths since last fall," she said, a great loss in a place with a year-round population of only 80.
The year-round population has never been large, though, in part because of the winters.
Shelter Island, with a year-round population of only 2,300, is a little place.
The year-round population of the county is about 450,000, up from 56,000 in 1950.
It has a year-round population of 2,700, swelling to more than 10,000 in the summer.
Its year-round population of 3,000 rises to 7,000 in the summer.
The year-round population of 800 had swollen to perhaps 5,000.
Its year-round population has more than tripled in the last 25 years, to about 19,400 today.
