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Irish-born, Brooklyn: 1885, 1875, 1865 by Ward

1855

1865

1875

Total
Population

Irish
Population

Irish % of Total

Total Population

Irish Population

Irish % of Total

Total
Population

Irish
Population

Irish % of Total

Ward

Area

Brooklyn

1

Brooklyn Heights

6441

2227

35.2

6128

1835

29.9

16084

3442

21.4

2

Fulton ferry

8383

2967

35.4

8760

2890

33

8850

2705

30.5

3

South Brooklyn Heights

8900

1964

22.1

8890

1751

19.7

15809

2120

13.4

4

Downtown

12282

2440

19.9

11506

1878

16.3

12616

1889

15

5

Irishtown, east of Naval Yard

16352

5629

34.4

17820

5658

31.8

18591

5229

28.1

6

Cobble Hill

18490

6463

35

26407

7717

29.2

34072

9500

27.9

7

Southeast of Navy Yard

21523

6471

51.7

15968

3104

19.4

26488

4525

17.1

8

Park Slope to 60th Street

5318

1717

32.3

9829

1938

19.7

12127

2375

19.6

9

Northeast of Prospect Park

9133

2449

26.8

23443

3102

13.2

13643

3757

27.5

10

Gowanus

21749

6690

30.8

28668

6121

21.4

24866

6106

24.6

11

Fort Greene southwest

22213

4985

22.4

18242

3462

19

21629

4020

18.6

12

Red Hook

6990

3332

47.7

13085

4914

37.6

17525

5349

30.5

13

Central Williamsburg

14044

2036

14.5

17791

1753

9.9

19547

1686

8.6

14

North Williamsburg

12414

4314

34.8

15425

3770

24.4

23925

5277

22.1

15

Northeast Williamsburg

6559

870

13.3

11449

1024

8.9

21255

1650

7.8

16

Southeast Williamsburgh

15350

846

5.5

24379

835

3.4

39206

910

2.3

17

Greenpoint

5508

966

17.5

10234

1828

17.9

2398

3754

15.6

18

Bushwick

2601

387

14.9

6319

674

10.7

17459

1541

8.8

19

East Bushwick

8055

961

11.9

21908

1797

8.2

20

Fort Greene southeast

13980

1928

13.8

21430

2876

13.4

21

Bedford

24834

2956

11.9

22

Park Slope-Greenwood

17736

2346

13.2

23

Bedford-Stuyvesant

10005

972

9.7

24

Crown Heights

5799

1045

18

25

Brownsville

13081

1052

8

Flatbush

3280

1150

35.1

2778

528

19

6940

1966

28.3

Flatlands

1578

241

15.3

1904

231

21.1

2651

252

9.5

Gravesend

1256

208

16.6

1627

314

19.3

2180

358

16.4

New Lots

2261

229

10.1

5009

389

7.7

11047

866

7.8

New Utrecht

2730

727

26.6

3394

839

24.7

3843

747

19.4

From 'The New York Irish' published by John Hopkins University Press, 1997.