page_title: Demographics of Brooklyn
section_title: Hispanics and Latinos
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of Brooklyn / Race and ethnicity / Hispanics and Latinos
caption_attribution_description: English: 8th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, August 2005.
context_page_description: The demographics of Brooklyn reveal a very diverse borough of New York City and a melting pot for many cultures, like the city itself. Since 2010, the population of Brooklyn was estimated by the Census Bureau to have increased 3.5% to 2,592,149 as of 2013, representing 30.8% of New York City's population, 33.5% of Long Island's population, and 13.2% of New York State's population. If the boroughs of New York City were separate cities, Brooklyn would be the third largest city in the United States after Los Angeles and Chicago.
  According to the 2010 Census, 35.7% of the population was non-Hispanic White, 31.9% non-Hispanic Black or African American, 10.4% non-Hispanic Asian, 0.4% from some other race and 1.6% of two or more races. 19.8% of Brooklyn's population was of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin.
context_section_description: According to the 2009 American Community Survey, Hispanics and Latinos made up nearly one-fifth (19.6%) of Brooklyn's population. Over 500,000 Hispanics and Latinos reside in Brooklyn. Nearly 190,000 Puerto Ricans call the borough home, and they make up 7.4% of the population. The borough's 91,000 Mexican Americans make up 3.6% of its population. In the Northern sections of Brooklyn such as Bushwick, East Williamsburg, Cypress Hills and a portion of East New York are home to most of Brooklyn's large Hispanic communities mainly from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Central America and have become the majority in these neighborhoods, which were formerly majority African American neighborhoods during the 1960s-70s and before the African Americans, they were formerly majority Italian/Jewish/German neighborhoods from the 1920s-60s. The Hispanic/Latino communities in North Brooklyn are mostly located very north of the currently existing African American communities of Brooklyn such as Bushwick in the very north central section of Brooklyn and Cypress Hills/north portion of East New York in very northeastern section of Brooklyn as most of the northern half of Brooklyn, which were formerly Jewish and Italian majority neighborhoods are currently majority African American/Caribbean black neighborhoods although some of the Latino and Hispanic populations do spillover into the predominant black communities such as Brownsville/East New York near Cypress hills and Bedford Stuyvesant next to Bushwick. However the Hispanic/Latino community in Williamsburg/East Williamsburg, which is in northwest of Brooklyn are intertwined between many European American enclaves consisting of Jewish and Italians including many high income professionals known as hipsters as the northwestern portion of Brooklyn are still mainly European American enclaves, however some of the Latino/Hispanic population do intermix into Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Boerum Hill, Red Hook, and Prospect Park sections, which are all in the northwest portion of Brooklyn, but due to the gentrification that is happening rapidly in northwestern sections of Brooklyn, the Latino/Hispanic population is facing a threat of decline in those sections. However, in Southwest Brooklyn, there is also a large Hispanic community in Sunset Park, which is neighbored by Brooklyn's largest Chinese enclave known as Brooklyn's Chinatown to the east of Sunset Park and neighbored by a few small scattered enclaves of European Americans to the north of Sunset Park and north east heading into Park Slope. In recent years, a growing number of Hispanic/Latinos, mainly Mexicans and other Central Americans have started appearing significantly in other parts of the southern half of Brooklyn, but at this time, they still have no newly emerged large enclaves except for Sunset Park since they are scattered and are integrated in Bensonhurst/Gravesend/Bath Beach's currently majority Italian/Jewish and Chinese enclaves; also including small numbers of Muslims and Arabs. Brighton Beach, which is in the southeast portion of Brooklyn and is mainly populated by Russians and other former USSR nationalities also has a significant scattered Latino/Hispanic population. Sheepshead Bay, which is also in southeast Brooklyn is also populated by many Russian speakers and also has a small significant Latino/Hispanic population.
caption: Brooklyn Chinatown
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