Gritty city really is pretty happy

MAN, THAT’S depressing.

The city Health Department on Friday dropped a survey detailing just how depressed us New Yorkers are.

Despite infuriating subway delays, traffic on the BQE and people who text while walking, overall we’re still pretty upbeat, according to the survey of 10,000 city dwellers in 2016.

Presenting a list of questions designed to test if a person is depressed, the survey found about only one out of 10 New Yorkers fit the bill as defined by the department.

But that’s still 548,000 Debbie Downers and Gloomy Guses, and some are more down in the dumps than others.

“We hope these data encourage primary care doctors to regularly screen their patients for depression,” said Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett. “Depression is treatable, and we encourage all New Yorkers to seek help if they need it.”

Although depression appears to be pretty gender neutral here in Gotham — 8% of men feel blue compared with 11% of women — things get more complicated depending on where and how you live.

New Yorkers residing in neighborhoods they felt were unsafe, for instance, were far more likely to be bummed out than those living in what they felt was a safe neighborhood .

And to cheer up, you might want to get off that couch and dump out that Big Gulp. New Yorkers with lousy health habits were far more likely to be grouchy than their more health-conscious peers.

Of those who qualified as depressed, 44% admitted they had not exercised in the last 30 days. That compares to the fitness zealots who are far cheerier, only 26% report feeling down.

Depressed New Yorkers are more likely to smoke , eat zero fruits or vegetables and drink one or more sugary drink per day.

And a higher rate of city dwellers with health problems also registered as depressed. Of those who reported suffering from hypertension, 18% registered as depressed, compared to just 5% of those with no hypertension.

Age was a slight factor. Baby Boomers were just a bit more depressed than Millenials.

But Boomers, between ages 45 and 64-years-old were more likely to seek medication or counseling than young people ages 25-44 and those 65 years or older.

Latinos were far more likely to be depressed compared to whites and blacks. Asian/Pacific Islanders were the least depressed.

Not surprisingly New Yorkers struggling to pay the rent and feed their families registered signs of depression. The unemployed were far more depressed than the employed, and the wealthy far less depressed than the poor.

The level of education also created a real emotional divide between gloom and glad, with the least educated, people with less than a high school diploma far more likely to be depressed than college graduates.