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Brooklyn Park, MN
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Brooklyn Park profile


Living in Brooklyn Park



Brooklyn Park is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 83,324 people and 16 constituent neighborhoods, Brooklyn Park is the sixth largest community in Minnesota.

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.81% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Like elsewhere in America, most people in Brooklyn Park use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of Brooklyn Park‘s citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the bus. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and require fewer highways to get them there.

In terms of college education, Brooklyn Park is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.52% of adults in Brooklyn Park have a college degree.

The per capita income in Brooklyn Park in 2018 was $34,108, which is middle income relative to Minnesota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $136,432 for a family of four. However, Brooklyn Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Brooklyn Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Brooklyn Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brooklyn Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Brooklyn Park include German, Norwegian, Swedish, Liberian, and Irish.

Brooklyn Park also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 24.69%.

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