Census survey: Brooklyn’s mainly middle-class, with many immigrants
High levels of education, health insurance
The Census Bureau’s latest American Community Survey (ACS) results are online, and they reveal Brooklyn residents to be mainly young or middle-aged, fairly well-educated and largely middle class.
The survey also reveals that Brooklyn has a fairly even balance of different racial and ethnic groups, with no group having a huge majority. One surprise, however, is the percentage of foreign-born – almost 40 percent.
The ACS is an ongoing survey focusing on demographic, housing, social and economic information. The government started it partially because fewer and fewer people wanted to fill out the “long form,” which asked for such data, during the “regular” 10-year census. The Census Bureau began collecting data for the ACS in in 2005 and started reporting its results in 2006.