Irish-born, Brooklyn: 1885, 1875, 1865 by Ward
1855
1865
1875
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
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
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
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
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
East Bushwick
8055
961
11.9
21908
1797
8.2
20
Fort Greene southeast
13980
1928
13.8
21430
2876
21
Bedford
24834
2956
22
Park Slope-Greenwood
17736
2346
23
Bedford-Stuyvesant
10005
972
9.7
24
Crown Heights
5799
1045
25
Brownsville
13081
1052
Flatbush
3280
1150
35.1
2778
528
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
New Utrecht
2730
727
26.6
3394
839
24.7
3843
747
From 'The New York Irish' published by John Hopkins University Press, 1997.