Maragaret O'Shaughnessy lived in enumeration district 818 which belongs to the Manhattan tract 152, in a rental home.

This is tract number 28 in Manhattan. It has a total population of 16500. For 1900, the census reports information for heads of family. The largest white ethnic group in this tract is German . There are 1438 heads of family of this ethnicity, which comprises about 42.19% of all family heads in the tract. Austrians are the second largest with 639 ( 18.75% ), and Irish are the third with 598 ( 17.55% ). About 77% of family heads in this tract are foreign-born.