Brooklyn Center, MN population, income and ZIP codes

Brooklyn Center city is a small city in Minnesota, with 32,811 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #30 of 914 ranked by population — larger than 96% of them. The median age here is 32.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Brooklyn Center city earn a median of $72,009 a year, 8.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 5% below the $75,469 median for the 361 Minnesota cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 11.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Brooklyn Center city is valued at $261,100, 13.9% below the national figure and 9% above the $240,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,345 a month, 4.3% below the national figure, or roughly $16,140 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 61.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.