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Brooklyn Center, MN
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Brooklyn Center profile


Living in Brooklyn Center



Brooklyn Center is a medium-sized city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 32,217 people and nine associated neighborhoods, Brooklyn Center is the 29th largest community in Minnesota.

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

A relatively large number of people in Brooklyn Center telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.61% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

For the size of the city, public transportation in Brooklyn Center is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the bus. For Brooklyn Center, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.

The education level of Brooklyn Center citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.23% of adults in Brooklyn Center have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Brooklyn Center in 2022 was $28,910, which is low income relative to Minnesota, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,640 for a family of four. However, Brooklyn Center contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Brooklyn Center is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Brooklyn Center home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brooklyn Center residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Brooklyn Center also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.96% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Brooklyn Center include German, Liberian, Norwegian, Irish, and Swedish.

Brooklyn Center also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 22.87%.

The most common language spoken in Brooklyn Center is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Miao/Hmong.