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SperlingViews - Brooklyn_Park, Minnesota

Brooklyn Park, MN
Population73,480
Median Age35.1
Pop. Density2,781
Pop. Change9.11%
Married Population52.65%
Household Size2.78
Unemployment Rate7.40%
Median Home Cost$212,500
Homes Owned74.19%
Home Appreciation-4.26%
Percent Religious53.86%
Commute Time26.3

63.28% of people are white, 18.19% are black, 12.03% are asian, 0.68% are native american, and 5.83% claim 'Other'. 4.27% of the people in Brooklyn Park, MN, claim hispanic ethnicity (meaning 95.73% are non-hispanic).


Joan
Minneapolis, MN
In the country? - 9/10/2009

I have lived in Brooklyn Park Mn for 16 years now (in Minnesota most of my 62 years) on the West end of town and life has been very nice. The Brooklyn Park area was originally lots of Potato fields and farmers for the most part have sold their land to developers and lots of new houses have gone up but there are still corn and soy bean fields withing a few blocks of where I live. We are still close enough to major roads to get to where we need to go, but it is like being in the country, now if the whole place were just in the "south" where we had no winter life would be great![read more...]

Maurice
Minneapolis, MN
Affordable Living and Diverse Lifestyle - 12/16/2007

Brooklyn Park has an wide variety of home styles and prices. Everything from one or two room condos, townhouses and apartments to the mini-mansions of homes over four thousand square feet. Some are subsidized for affordability and other could stretch some of the largest incomes. The wonderful thing about this is the amount of diversity it creates within the community and the school system.[read more...]