As of the census^[1] of 2000, there are 2,465,326 people, 880,727 households, and 583,922 families residing in Brooklyn. The population density was 13,480/km² (34,920/mi²). There were 930,866 housing units at an average density of 5,090/km² (13,180/mi²). The racial makeup of the County was 41.20% Black, 36.44% white or Caucasian, 0.41% Native American, 7.54% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 10.79% from other races, and 4.27% from two or more races. 19.08% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. Events 10 Downing Street becomes the official residence of the United Kingdoms Prime Minister when Robert Walpole moves in. ... 1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1771 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1790 (MDCCXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... // ON MAY 5 1853 MR.FADER HAD SEX WITH A MAN NAME MR WIEN THEN THEY HAD SON NAMEDMRS COTURE AND MR MANOOGIAN WENT INTO MRS HASKELLS OFFICE NAKED AND DANCED AROUND AND MASTERBATED ON HER CHEST AND SHE LICKED IT OFF THEN THEY HAD ORAL SEEX WITH NAPLOEAN OF... 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 (MDCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the game, see: 1850 (board game) 1850 (MDCCCL) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar). ... Äž: For the film, see: 1900 (film). ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Image:1870 census Lindauer Weber 01. ... This article is about the borough of New York City. ... It has been suggested that Ethnicity (United States Census) be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that Ethnicity (United States Census) be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that Ethnicity (United States Census) be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that Ethnicity (United States Census) be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that Ethnicity (United States Census) be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that Ethnicity (United States Census) be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that Ethnicity (United States Census) be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that Ethnicity (United States Census) be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that Ethnicity (United States Census) be merged into this article or section. ...

At 41% of the 2.5 million borough residents, Brooklyn demographically is New York City's Blackest borough. The historical cultural center of the borough has long been Bedford-Stuyvesant which became Majority Black in the 1930s. Neighborhoods surrounding Bedford-Stuyvesant in Northern and Eastern Brooklyn are also majority African American such as Brownsville, Canarsie, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, and Fort Greene. Many of these neighborhoods are also home to a high number of Hispanics mainly from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Central America. Hispanics comprise approxiametly 19% of the borough's residents and are mainly concentrated in Black neighborhoods and have become the majority in former Black neighborhoods such as Bushwick, East Williamsburg and Sunset Park. Bedford Stuyvesant (aka Bed-Stuy) is a neighborhood in central Brooklyn, New York City. ... Bedford Stuyvesant (aka Bed-Stuy) is a neighborhood in central Brooklyn, New York City. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... Brownsville is a neighborhood in central Brooklyn, New York, predominantly Caribbean, Hispanic, and African-American. ... A typical street in Canarsie. ... Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... East Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... East New York is a neighborhood in Brooklyn which has had a dramatic turn around prior to 15 years ago. ... Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... For other uses, see Central America (disambiguation). ... Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northeastern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... East Williamsburg is a marketing term created by real-estate speculators for the area in the northwestern portion of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, which is in or around Bushwick. ... Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the southern Brooklyn section of Brooklyn, New York, USA. The neighborhood is located south of Park Slope and Windsor Terrace, separated by Green-Wood Cemetery and the Prospect Expressway/NY-27, while 65th Street and the Gowanus Expressway/I-278 mark the end of...

Brooklyn's White population mainly consists of ethnic Europeans from Eastern and Southern European countries of Italy, Ireland, Russia, Poland, Albania, and old Soviet Union countries. Southern and Western Brooklyn is predominantly White, and most of the borough's White residents are of the Catholic or Jewish religion. Italians are the majority in neighborhoods such as Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay, Poles are the majority in neighborhoods such as Greenpoint and Greenwood Heights, Russians are the majority in neighborhoods such as Brighton Beach, and Irish are the majority in neighborhoods such as Bay Ridge. Neighborhoods surrounding Bedford-Stuyvesant such as Brownsville, Canarsie, and East New York were previously majority Italian and Jewish but have in the 20th century shifted into majority Black and Puerto Rican communities. Brooklyn lost alot of it's white residents in the 1960s and 1970s due to Urban decay, many of whom moved to neighboring boroughs of Queens and Staten Island in addition to suburban counties of Long Island and New Jersey. Bensonhurst Embankment is a common walkway in Bensonhurst Bensonhurst is a neighborhood located in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... Sheepshead Bay is a bay separating the mainland of Brooklyn, New York City from the eastern portion of Coney Island, the latter originally a barrier island but now effectively an extension of the mainland with peninsulas both east and west. ... Landmark 19th-century rowhouses on tree-lined Kent Street in Greenpoint Historic District. ... With debated boarders at Prospect Avenue in Brooklyn, NY to the north, 4th Avenue to the west, 8th Avenue to the east and 38th Street to the south, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynNY Sun 05/17/07 [1] takes part of its name from the neighborhood proximity to the Green-Wood Cemetery. ... Brighton Beach is a community on Coney Island in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. ... Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. It is bound by 65th Street on the north, Interstate 278 on the east, and the Belt Parkway-Shore Road on the west. ... Brownsville is a neighborhood in central Brooklyn, New York, predominantly Caribbean, Hispanic, and African-American. ... A typical street in Canarsie. ... East New York is a neighborhood in Brooklyn which has had a dramatic turn around prior to 15 years ago. ... Queens is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States, and the most ethnically diverse county in the U.S. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island. ... This article is about the borough in New York City. ... This article is about the island in New York State. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

Brooklyn had several large populations of Asians. The 125,050 Chinese were second only to Queens among New York boroughs, meaning Chinatown was no longer the main residence of Chinese in the city. 32,498 Asian Indians lived in Brooklyn. There were 14,221 Pakistanis, making Brooklyn the borough with the highest percentage of Pakistanis when compared to the population of Asian Indians. 7918 Filipinos lived in Brooklyn. 6816 Koreans resided here. 6243 Bangladeshis lived in Brooklyn. Brooklyn had the most Vietnamese of any Borough, they numbered 4011. The 3066 Japanese rounded out Asian groups with over 1000 in Brooklyn.^[2]

Brooklyn has been the city's largest borough since the mid-1920s. (Key: Each borough's historical population in millions. The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island)

Brooklyn has a high degree of linguistic diversity. In the 2000 United States Census 18.00% of the population of Brooklyn reported speaking Spanish at home, 5.95% Russian, 4.19% Haitian-French or a French-based creole, 3.92% Chinese, 3.10% Yiddish, 2.10% Italian, 1.42% Polish, 1.13% Hebrew, and 1.09% Arabic. Other languages spoken at home by at least 5000 people include Cantonese, Urdu, Bengali, Greek, Korean, Tagalog, and Albanian.^[3] Image File history File links New_York_City_Demographics_05_500px_Julius_Schorzman. ... Image File history File links New_York_City_Demographics_05_500px_Julius_Schorzman. ... 2000 US Census logo The Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13. ... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... Yiddish ( yidish or idish, literally: Jewish) is a non-territorial Germanic language, spoken throughout the world and written with the Hebrew alphabet. ... Hebrew redirects here. ... Arabic redirects here. ... This article is on all of the Yue dialects. ... The phrase Zaban-e Urdu-e Mualla written in Urdu Urdu () is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family that developed under Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, and Sanskrit influence in South Asia during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1200-1800). ... Bangla redirects here. ... Tagalog (pronunciation: ) is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines. ...

Were New York City separate cities and not boroughs, Brooklyn would be the third largest city in the United States after Los Angeles and Chicago. Ten most populous cities in the United States Los Angeles San Jose San Diego Phoenix Chicago New York City Houston San Antonio Dallas Philadelphia The following is a list of the most populous incorporated places in the United States. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... For other uses, see Chicago (disambiguation). ...

In the 2000 Census, the following percentages of Brooklyn residents self-reported these European ancestries: The United States Census of year 2000, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ...

• Italian: 9.41%
• Irish: 3.70%
• Albanian: 2.13%
• German: 1.81%
• English: 1.19%

According to an estimate of the United States Census Bureau, Brooklyn's population increased to 2,486,235 in 2005. English Americans (occasionally known as Anglo-Americans) are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. ... The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title ) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ...

Of its 880,727 households 33.3% have children under the age of 18 living in them, 38.6% were married couples living together, 22.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.7% were non-families. Of all households 27.8% are made up of individuals and 9.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.75 and the average family size was 3.41. Matrimony redirects here. ...

In the County the population was spread out with 26.9% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 33 years. For every 100 females there were 88.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.1 males. This article is about the statistical concept. ...

The median income for a household in the County was $32,135, and the median income for a family was $36,188. Males had a median income of $34,317 versus $30,516 for females. The per capita income for the County was $16,775. About 22.0% of families and 25.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 34.0% of those under age 18 and 21.5% of those age 65 or over. USD redirects here. ... The per capita income for a group of people may be defined as their total personal income, divided by the total population. ... Map of countries showing percentage of population who have an income below the national poverty line The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...

The 2000 census show also that the borough is home to one of the most important concentration of Pakistani Americans in the nation, with a total population of 14,221^[4]. A Pakistani American is someone born in the United States of Pakistani descent, or someone who has immigrated to the United States from Pakistan. ...

References

1. ^ American FactFinder. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
2. ^ Detailed Tables - American FactFinder
3. ^ MLA Data Center
4. ^ Census Profile: New York City’s Pakistani American Population, accessed July 16, 2006