Brooklyn By

The Numbers
Population
9,000,000
8,391,881
8,000,000 7,891,957 7,894,862

7,000,000 6,930,446 7,071,639

6,000,000
5,620,048
5,000,000
4,766,883
New York City
4,000,000
Brooklyn
3,437,202
3,000,000
2,560,401 2,738,175 2,602,012 2,567,098
2,000,000 2,018,356 2,230,936
1,634,351
1,000,000 1,166,582

0
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2009

Uses of Brooklyn Land

2% 1%
One- and two-family houses
4%
Multifamily residences
23% Mixed residential/commercial
Commercial/office
Manufacturing
34%
Transportation/utility
Public facilities, institutions
16%
Open space
Parking
4%
6% Vacant
4% 5%
3% Miscellaneous
 1. Greenpoint / Williamsburg 10. Bay Ridge / Dyker Heights
2. Fort Greene / Brooklyn Heights 11. Bensonhurst
3. Bedford-Stuyvesant 12. Borough Park
4. Bushwick 13. Coney Island
5. East New York / Starrett City 14. Flatbush / Midwood
6. Park Slope / Carroll Gardens 15. Sheepshead Bay
7. Sunset Park 16. Brownsville
8. Crown Heights / Prospect Heights 17. East Flatbush
9. S. Crown Heights / Lefferts Gardens 18. Flatlands / Canarsie

Infant Mortality, 2009

(deaths per 1,000 live births)
by community district

15 9.5 11.3
8.7
10 5.4 5.2 5.8 4.7 2.6 4.9 5.5 3.8 3.2 3.6 5 4.9 4.3 6.2 6.3
3 3.5
5
0
NYC

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
BROOKLYN

Median Monthly Rent, 2009

(by community district)
$1,366
1500
935 892 $867 $992 $795 $873 $880 $949 $855 $856 $983 $881 $976 $916 $873 $927 $1,000
1000 $696 $645
500
0

Homeownership, 2009
(by community district)
80% 61%
60% 46%
34% 31% 30% 24% 36% 28% 36% 35% 29% 31%
40% 18% 25% 20% 18% 12% 24% 20%
16%
20%
0%
 Poverty
by community district
35% 33%
31%
30% 28% 27% 28% 28%
26%
25% 23% 22%
21% 21%
18% 19% 19%
20% 17%
14% 13%
15% 11% 12% 12%
10%
5%
0%

Foreign Born
by community district
60%
53%
50% 49%
50%
45% 45% 44% 45%

38% 39%
40% 36% 37% 36%
36% 35%
32%
30%
25% 25%

19%
20% 18%
15%

10%

0%
 Donations to City Campaigns, 1989–2011
(thousands; top and bottom five ZIP codes)

11239 (Starrett City) $90

11212 (Brownsville) $197
11224 (Coney Island) $258
11237 (Bushwick) $262
11232 (Sunset Park) $278

11210 (Flatbush) $1,623

11223 (Gravesend) $1,929
11230 (Midwood) $1,962
11215 (Park Slope) $2,113
11201 (Brooklyn Heights) $3,940

$0 $500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 $4,000

Brooklyn's Presidential Vote

George W. Bush 15%
Al Gore 77%

George W. Bush 24%

John Kerry 74%

John McCain 20%

Barack Obama 79%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%

Bloomberg's share of the Brooklyn vote

57.0%

60.0% 44.4%
44.3%
50.0%

40.0%

30.0%

20.0%

10.0%

0.0%
2001 2005 2009
 Commuting Times Distribution of Income
Share of population in income quinitles,
Less than 10 2008
minutes
7% 4% 23% 23%
10 to 19 minutes 25% 22%
12%
20% 18%
21% 20 to 29 minutes 15%
15%
11%
30 to 44 minutes 10%

45 to 59 minutes 5%

0%
18% 60 to 89 minutes
26%
90 or more
minutes

Change In Number Of Jobs, 1997-2007

160,000 148,002

140,000

120,000

100,000

80,000

60,000

40,000 -23,484 -2,605

19,189 22,994
15,922 16,338 17,515
20,000 10,066 11,521
6,993

-20,000

-40,000
 Selected Causes of Death, 2009
45
40
35
30 HIV disease
25
20 Homicide
15
10 Diabetes mellitus
5
0 Chronic liver disease & cirrhosis

Mental disorders due to substance use & accidental

poisoning

Total Felonies, 2010

3,500
3,100
3,000

2,500
2,120 2,011
1,974
2,000 1,829 1,836 1,733
1,457 1,364 1,404
1,500 1,323 1,249 1,334 1,264 1,197 1,143
1,106 1,023
899 986 906
1,000 845
581
500

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 Top 20 Languages Other Than Race/Ethnicity
English
(number of speakers, 2009)

2%
White alone
9%
2,786 Black or African
Hindi
37% American alone
20%
3,046 Hispanic or Latino
Japanese

3,136 Asian alone

Hungarian

33% Other
Vietnamese 3,238

Serbo-Croatian 3,439
School Completed,
German 4,298
Brooklynites 25 and older
Tagalog 4,752

Korean 5,156 100%

7% 9% 11% Graduate or
Greek 7,877 professional
9%
13% degree
14,202 5% 18% Bachelor's degree
Urdu 80%
6%
14%
Arabic 23,700 7%
15% Associate's degree

Polish 24,814 60% 14%

29% Some college, no

French (incl. Patois, Cajun) 25,188
degree
27%
Hebrew 27,712 40%
29% High school
graduate (includes
Italian 34,934 equivalency)
21%
18% 9th to 12th grade,
French Creole 63,970 20% no diploma
11%

Yiddish 82,514 16% Less than 9th

13% 11% grade
Russian 129,466 0%
1990 2000 2009
Chinese 133,265

Spanish or Spanish Creole 403,238

0 200,000 400,000
Sources: Census Bureau, Furman Center, NYPD, City
Planning, FDIC, Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene,
Campaign Finance Board