Brooklyn, NY (E 56th St / Ave K)

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the E 56th St / Ave K 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 58.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the E 56th St / Ave K neighborhood, 39.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.7%), and 17.8% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the E 56th St / Ave K neighborhood is English, spoken by 67.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French, Arabic and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the E 56th St / Ave K neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Haitian (23.9%). There are also a number of people of Jamaican ancestry (21.8%), and residents who report Arab roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.8%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.8%), among others. In addition, 54.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in E 56th St / Ave K neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (44.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (35.1%) ride the bus to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (27.2%) and 23.2% of residents also take the train for their daily commute. The bus provides a valuable service in the E 56th St / Ave K neighborhood of Brooklyn by getting a lot of residents to and from work daily, reducing the costs of commuting and reducing some congestion on the roads as well.