Community Profile Brooklyn

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Community Profile Brooklyn, NY ETH/316 January 31, 2013 Community Profile Brooklyn has been for some time, and is currently the most popular city out of all five boroughs. More of the younger crowed is moving to Brooklyn, being that it is cheaper than living in the city of Manhattan. You will find a lot of accessible music venues to explore, a great variety of restaurants, Brooklyn Museum, BAM the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which hosts a large and diverse slate of cultural activities as well as music and film. According to City-Data.com (2012): • Population: 2,538,705 • Males: 1,190,866 (46.9%) • Women: 1,347,839 (53.1) • Median income $41,304 per year * 24% of the people in Brooklyn live in poverty. The type of…show more content…
• White- 854,532 (34.7%) • Black- 848,583 (34.4%) • Hispanic- 487,878 (19.8%) • Asian- 184,291 (7.5%) • Two or more races - 68,688 (2.8%) • Other race- 16,057 (0.7%) • American Indians- 4,494 (0.2%) * Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander- 803 (0.03%) For men in Brooklyn the most common occupation would be: * Building, cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%) * Other office and administrative support and supervisors (4%) * Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%) * Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%) * Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%) * Computer specialists (4%) * Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including (3%) The main occupations for woman: •Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (9%) •Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors…show more content…
As a member of the community I feel that being socially responsible would be to treat others the way I want to be treated, to help those I see are down, give or feed the poor; not causing harm to other individuals and avoiding situations that may lead you there. It is having good ethics; good judgment and performing duties that will not only help you grow, but those around you as

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