Which Brooklyn Neighborhood’s Residents Die the Most?
- Bed-Stuy’s Woodhull Hospital via Wikimedia
Bed-Stuy and Brownsville
When adjusted for age, the highest death rates in Brooklyn come from these two neighborhoods: 8.3 in Bed-Stuy, 8.7 in Brownsville, which is the highest in the city. The two neighborhoods have the highest number of murders, 27 and 26 respectively, but those numbers are negligible in the overall death rate. (In Bed-Stuy, murder accounts for 2.6 percent of all deaths. In Brownsville, it’s 4.2 percent.) Perhaps the unifying factor is poverty: Brownsville, Bed-Stuy, and Coney Island all contain some of the borough’s poorest census tracts, where median income can be less than $15,000/year.
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