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Brooklyn, IN

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Overview


Brooklyn is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,534 people and just one neighborhood, Brooklyn is the 206th largest community in Indiana.

Brooklyn real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Brooklyn house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Brooklyn is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Brooklyn is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Brooklyn who work in office and administrative support (21.65%), sales jobs (13.40%), and healthcare (11.07%).

Also of interest is that Brooklyn has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Brooklyn is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Brooklyn, the average commute to work is 30.43 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Brooklyn does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Brooklyn with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.93% of adults in Brooklyn have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Brooklyn in 2018 was $26,327, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,308 for a family of four. However, Brooklyn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Brooklyn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brooklyn residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Brooklyn include German, Irish, English, French Canadian, and British.

The most common language spoken in Brooklyn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

has the amazing distinction of housing more same sex couples living together than 97.2% of neighborhoods in the U.S. If you are seeking such a neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that this is one place that you should consider.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Brooklyn are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.0% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 36.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Brooklyn, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report English roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (80.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (5.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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