Brownstone Brooklyn is home to 30,000 Jewish adults and 8,000 Jewish children in 26,000 households. These households are home to 56,000 total people, including both Jews and non-Jews in Jewish households. 24% of households in Brownstone Brooklyn include a Jewish person.
The average age of adults in Jewish households in Brownstone Brooklyn is 41, lower than the average age in Brooklyn. 11% of these adults are seniors over the age of 65. Additionally, 23% of this area's population are children.
60% of adults in Jewish households in Brownstone Brooklyn are married, compared with 62% in the county overall. 20% have never married and 5% are divorced or separated.
18% of adults in Jewish households in Brownstone Brooklyn were born outside of the U.S., and 51% in Brooklyn were born in the New York area, a rate lower than in the eight-county area as a whole.
Brownstone Brooklyn has a higher median income compared with that of the entire county. The share of low-income households is lower compared with Brooklyn as a whole.
Compared with the entire county, the share of Jewish households who are poor or near poor is lower: 5% earn up to two and a half times the federal poverty line.
14% of households say they can't make ends meet or are just managing, while 65% say they have some extra money or are well off.
36% of Jewish adults in Brownstone Brooklyn report feeling some or more a part of the Jewish community in New York. 87% feel being Jewish is important to them, more than the rate among Jewish adults in Brooklyn overall, and greater than the rate across the eight counties.
16% of Jewish adults are synagogue members, and 1% of Jewish households with children ages 5-17 send at least one to Jewish day school.
13% are Conservative, and 29% are Reform. 58% have no denomination or identify with a group not listed above.
2% of adults in Jewish households say they attend synagogue at least monthly, and 5% say they attend Jewish programs at least monthly, less than the rate among Jewish adults in Brooklyn overall, and lower than the rate across the eight counties.
Jewish behaviors | Brownstone Brooklyn | Brooklyn | 8-County Total |
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The percentage of adults in Jewish households who celebrate Chanukah. | 70% | 87% | 80% |
The percentage of adults in Jewish households who participate in a Passover seder. | 76% | 85% | 77% |
The percentage of adults in Jewish households who observe Yom Kippur in some way. | 56% | 79% | 70% |
The percentage of adults in Jewish households who mark Shabbat in a way different from other days. | 25% | 68% | 48% |
The percentage of adults in Jewish households who keep a kosher home. | 1% | 46% | 21% |
The percentage of adults in Jewish households who attend Jewish prayer services, at least monthly. | 2% | 46% | 23% |