Here's How Park Slope Changed From 2010 To 2020: Census Data

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — While it may not have transformed as dramatically as some neighborhoods, newly-released census data reveals how Park Slope's population has changed over the last decade.

The neighborhood's population, like the rest of the borough, grew between the two census counts, welcoming 4,000 new residents between 2010 and 2020, the data shows.

The increase, about 7 percent, is slightly below Brooklyn's overall population growth of 9.2 percent and on the lower end of neighborhoods across the city. The largest spikes were found in neighborhoods like Williamsburg, Downtown Brooklyn and Long Island City, where the population as much as tripled in the last decade, according to the data.

In terms of demographics, Park Slope remained largely unchanged.

The neighborhood's white, Black and Hispanic populations each changed by less than 1,000 people. The biggest shift was in residents in the multi-racial or "other race" category, which increased by roughly 2,000 between 2010 and 2020. The Asian population gained 1,500 new residents during the decade, data shows.

Here's a look at the data:

• Total population
  • 2010: 53,502
  • 2020: 57,405
• White poulation
  • 2010: 37,909
  • 2020: 38,668
• Black population
  • 2010: 3,671
  • 2020: 3,363
• Hispanic population
• 2010: 6,780
• 2020 6,701
• Asian population
• 2010: 3,141
• 2020: 4,641
• Multi-racial/Other
• 2010: 2,001
• 2020: 4,032

The changes in Park Slope reflect larger trends across the borough, though at a smaller scale.

Brooklyn saw the largest decline in its Black population of any borough between the two census counts. Brooklyn's white population increased as a whole by 8.4 percent during that time, according to the data.

The largest shifts were found in neighborhoods like Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy, where the tens of thousands of white residents moved in while a similar number of Black residents left the neighborhood.

Overall, the borough is close to reaching a record-setting number of residents. An addition of more than 231,000 residents between 2010 and 2020 brought Brooklyn only 2,100 residents shy of its 1950 population peak, according to City Planning.

Check out a full analysis of the census data here.