How Crowded Is Your Brooklyn Neighborhood?

Row houses in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Photo via Wikimedia

BROOKLYN, NY — In case you had momentarily forgotten you were living in a human Jenga pile, the apartment rental and sales website StreetEasy released a grim data set last week illustrating the overcrowding phenomenon in New York City.

To draw up these maps and graphs, StreetEasy used info from the U.S. Census on how many people were living in each home in NYC as of 2013. If more than 1.5 people were listed per room (including living rooms, dining rooms, etc.), a home would be considered “crowded.”

Somewhat unsurprisingly, Brooklyn took the silver medal for overcrowding among the five boroughs — second only to the Bronx. And when it came to growth in overcrowding — aka, areas where apartments were stuffing in additional roommates at the quickest rate between 2010 and 2013 — Brooklyn took home gold.

According to StreetEasy, the top Brooklyn neighborhoods in the latter category were, in descending order: Manhattan Beach, Gerritsen Beach, Sheepshead Bay, Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Starrett City and Bushwick.

Below, you’ll find a complete list of Brooklyn’s neighborhoods, ranked by crowding rate. Patch neighborhoods are in bold. (Windsor Terrace took the top spot; Kensington, Bushwick and Ditmas Park weren’t far behind.) Below that, you’ll find the same data in map form, courtesy of StreetEasy.

Oh, and for comparison: StreetEasy says that “8.9 percent of all New York City households met the definition of ’crowded’ in 2013, whereas just 3.3 percent of all U.S. households were crowded.”

1. Windsor Terrace 19.6%
   
2. Sunset Park 19.6%
   
3. Greenwood Heights 18.6%
   
4. Borough Park 17.1%
   
5. Kensington 16.7%
   
6. Bushwick 16%
   
7. Ocean Parkway 15.2%
   
8. East New York 13.9%
   
9. Ditmas Park 12.6%
   
10. Bath Beach 12.3%
    
11. Bensonhurst 12.3%
    
12. Midwood 12.1%
    
13. Dyker Heights 10.6%
    
14. Williamsburg 10.5%
    
15. Bay Ridge 10.5%
    
16. Flatbush 10.1%
    
17. Gravesend 10.1%
    
18. Gerritsen Beach 10%
    
19. Manhattan Beach 10%
    
20. Sheepshead Bay 9.6%
    
21. Brownsville 9.2%
    
22. Greenpoint 9%
    
23. Bed-Stuy 9%
    
24. Brighton Beach 7.5%
    
25. Prospect-Lefferts Gardens 7.4%
    
26. Canarsie 7.4%
    
27. Coney Island 7.4%
    
28. Sea Gate 7.4%
    
29. Marine Park 6.3%
    
30. Mill Basin 6.2%
    
31. Flatlands 6.2%
    
32. Crown Heights 6%
    
33. Fort Green-Clinton Hill 4.8%
    
34. Downtown Brooklyn 4.8%
    
35. Boerum Hill 4.7%
    
36. Brooklyn Heights 4.7%
    
37. Park Slope 4.6%
    
38. Cobble Hill 4.3%
    
39. Gowanus 4.2%
    
40. Red Hook 4.1%
    
41. Carroll Gardens 4%
    
42. Columbia Street Waterfront District 4%