Brooklyn Population Info

• 2,508,820 people live in Kings County, a 1.8% increase since 2000
  (the boro of Brooklyn and Kings County share the same borders),
• Brooklyn remains the most populous of the city's five boroughs.
• The population density is Brooklyn is about 10,000 people per square mile
  
  more info is available from the US Census Bureau w

• 2006: 2,508,820 estimated population
• 1990: 2,300,664
• 1980: 2,230,936
• 1970: 2,602,012
• 1960: 2,627,319
• 1950: 2,738,175 note that more people lived in Brooklyn in 1950 than do today!
• 1940: 2,698,285
• 1930: 2,560,401
• 1920: 2,018,356
• 1910: 1,634,351
• 1900: 1,166,582

Population by Neighborhood
according to the NYC Dept of City Planning

• Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights 122,542 (Community Board 10)
• Bedford Stuyvesant 143,867 (CB3)
• Bensonhurst, Bath Beach 172.129 (CB11)
• Borough Park, Ocean Parkway 185,046 (CB12)
• Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene 98,620 (CB2)
• Brownsville, Ocean Hill 85,343 (CB16)
• Bushwick 104,358 (CB4)
• Canarsie, Flatlands 194,653 (CB18)
• Coney Island, Brighton Beach 106,120 (CB13)
• Crown Heights / South Wingate: 104,014 (CB9)
• Crown Heights North 96,076 (CB8)
• East Flatbush, Rugby, Farragut 165,753 (CB17)
• East New York, Starrett City 173,198 (CB5) w
• Flatbush / Midwood 168,806 (CB14)
• Park Slope, Carroll Gardens 104,054 (CB6)
• Sheepshead Bay, Gerritsen Beach 160,319 (CB15)
• Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace 120,063 (CB7)
• Williamsburg, Greenpoint 168,338 (CB1)
  • more info is available from the NYC Dept of City Planning

More Facts...

• 53% of Brooklyn residents are female.
• 41.2% are White
• 36.4% are Black or African-American
• 0.4% are Native American Indian and/or Alaska Native persons
• 0.1% are Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
• 7.5% are Asian
• 34.7% are White persons of non-Hispanic/Latino origin
• 19.8% are of Latino or Hispanic origin
• 10.1% reporting some other race
• 4.3% reporting two or more races
• 7.4% are under the age of 5 years
• 26.9% are under the age of 18
• 11.5% are age 65 or older
• 62.9% have been living in the same house or apartment for the last 5 years
• 37.8% were born in a foreign country
• 46.7% speak a language other than English at home
• of those over the age of 25,
  • 47.7% are high school graduates
  • 21.8% have a Bachelor's degree or higher
• 603,816 have a disability
• there are 38,732 businesses with paid employees in Brooklyn.
  • 37% of those are minority owned (1997)
  • 26% are owned by women (1997)
• Brooklynites spend an average of 43 minutes traveling to work
• Median income is $29,961 per year
• an estimated 24% of Brooklynites live in poverty.
  vs.
  • 27% Bronx
  • 18% Manhattan
  • 16% Queens
  • 9% Staten Island

  
  Read how the Census Bureau defines poverty or how the census bureau defines race

Geography and Trivia

• Kings County (which contains Brooklyn) is the 7th largest county in the United States
• In 1998, 1,207,419 Brooklynites were registered voters, 70% are Democrats.
• Brooklyn covers 71 square miles
• There are about 34,916 people per square mile in Brooklyn
• Brooklynites represent 93 different ethnic groups, 150 nationalities, and speak 136 different languages.

More Trivia...

• Brooklyn residents spend an average of 43 minutes commuting to work each day.
• 86% of the housing in Brooklyn is in multi-unit dwellings, i.e. apartments in buildings with two or more units.
• 47% of Brookynites speak a language other than English at home.
• 22% of Brooklynites have a Bachelors' degree or higher.
• An estimated 600,000 people are buried in Green-Wood Cemetary.