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Key Findings
Bay Ridge & Dyker Heights
(Brooklyn)
Income & Occupation
Human Development Index Score
Bay Ridge & Dyker Heights has an HD Index score of
6.31, higher than the Port Richmond, Stapleton &
Mariner’s Harbor and the NYC average.
Nearly 22 percent of the Bay Ridge & Dyker Heights
residents live below the official poverty line, and
median personal earnings, $38,570 is slightly above
the NYC average, $37,339. Half of all the households
spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent
or other housing related costs. Management, busi-
ness, science and the art occupations account for the
largest share of employment (39.4 percent), followed
by sales and office (24.2 percent), service occupations
(20.7 percent), production, transportation & material
moving (8.8 percent), natural resources, construction
and maintenance (6.9 percent).
Health
Bay Ridge & Dyker Heights residents enjoy slightly lon-
ger lives than the NYC average, 81.5 years compared
to 80.6 years.
Education
The share of adults (% of adults 25+) who completed
a high school and some college in Bay Ridge & Dyker
Heights is 37.6 percent, which is below the NYC’s
average of 44.7 percent and well lower than Port
Richmond of 49 percent. The share of 3-and 4-year-
olds who attend preschool is 58.5 percent, and the
school enrollment rate (% ages 3 to 24 in school), 81.6
percent are both slightly above the Port Richmond,
Stapleton & Mariner’s Harbor (78.2 percent).
Risks to Children
The rate of child poverty in Bay Ridge & Dyker Heights
is 23.2 percent, lower than NYC average (28.3 percent)
and Port Richmond, Stapleton & Mariner’s Harbor
(28.8. per­cent), and rate of children living with a single
mother is 5.1 percent, which is lower than the NYC
average of 8.7 percent and well below the Port Rich-
mond, Stapleton & Mariner’s Harbor rate of 13.2.
Bay Ridge & Dyker Heights outpaces the HD Index
Score (6.31) of Port Richmond, Stapleton & Mariner’s
Harbor (5.52) and the NYC average (5.54). In Bay
Ridge & Dyker Heights only 20 children (total # ages
0-17) are homeless well below the NYC average of 332
children and Port Richmond, Stapleton & Mariner’s
Harbor (440). Despite having a higher HD Index score
compared to NYC’s average, slightly higher median
personal earnings and lower child poverty, the rate of
child abuse in Dyker Heights & Bay Ridge is 37 percent,
slightly higher than Port Richmond, Stapleton &
Mariner’s Harbor (36.2 percent) and similar to NYC’s
average (37.7 percent).