Brooklyn, NY Facts, Population, Income, Demographics, Economy

Population (total):

Sex Offenders: According to our research of New York and other state lists, there were 1,452 registered sex offenders living in Brooklyn, New York as of January 18, 2021. The ratio of all residents to sex offenders in Brooklyn is 1,748 to 1.The ratio of registered sex offenders to all residents in this city is lo

Land Area: 70.6 square miles.

Population Density:

Races:
      White alone - 854,532 - 34.7%
      Black alone - 848,583 - 34.4%
      Hispanic - 487,878 - 19.8%
      Asian alone - 184,291 - 7.5%
      Two or more races - 68,688 - 2.8%
      Other race alone - 16,057 - 0.7%
      American Indian alone - 4,494 - 0.2%
      Native Hawaiian and Other
>Pacific Islander alone - 803 - 0.03%

The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years. The settlement began in the 17th century as the small Dutch-founded town of "Breuckelen" on the East River shore of Long Island, grew to be a sizeable city in the 19th century, and was consolidated in 1898 with New York City (then confined to Manhattan and part of the Bronx), the remaining rural areas of Kings County, and the largely rural areas of Queens and Staten Island, to form the modern City of New York. The etymology of Breuckelen may be directly from the dialect word Breuckelen meaning buckle or from the Plattdeutsch Brücken meaning bridge.