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Brooklyn Population by Race and Ethnicity

Brooklyn Population by Race Graph

Brooklyn data is not available. Kings county data used instead.

2010 Population by Race and Ethnicity Kings county, NY New York United States
Population by Race
White 985,735 38.28% 12,481,134 63.73% 221,809,059 71.91%
Black or African American 931,482 36.17% 3,041,715 15.53% 37,036,996 12.01%
American Indian and Alaska Native 6,962 0.27% 84,213 0.43% 3,026,418 0.98%
Asian 226,418 8.79% 1,351,720 6.90% 13,906,406 4.51%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 3,749 0.15% 22,760 0.12% 662,031 0.21%
Other 420,914 16.34% 2,603,785 13.29% 32,014,224 10.38%
Population by Ethnicity
Population Hispanic 555,601 21.57% 3,502,957 17.89% 49,511,501 16.05%
Population Non Hispanic 2,019,659 78.43% 16,082,370 82.11% 258,943,633 83.95%

The data for Kings county, NY may also contain data for the following areas: Brooklyn

Race versus Ethnicity: According to the Census, race and ethnicity are considered two separate and distinct identities. Hispanic or Latino origin is asked as a separate question and categorized under ethnicity. In addition to their race and/or races, all respondents are categorized by one of two ethnicities, which are "Hispanic" and "Non Hispanic."

Hispanic Ethnicity: According to the Census, people of Hispanic origin, were those who indicated that their origin was Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American or some other Hispanic origin. It should be noted that people of Hispanic origin may be of any race.

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