Brooklyn Civic
Brooklyn Community District 17 encompasses East Flatbush, Remsen Village, Farragut, Rugby, Erasmus, and Ditmas Village. Covering 3.1 square miles and home to more than 150,000 residents, it covers a large residential section of central and eastern Brooklyn.
East Flatbush, Remsen Village, Farragut, Rugby, Erasmus, and Ditmas Village include rowhouses, apartment buildings, medical institutions, schools, and commercial corridors. The district is large enough to contain several neighborhood identities, but its shared issues are familiar: housing stability, transportation, street safety, public services, and local economic activity.
BKCB17 — Mamdani won this CB district 67.9% to 30.3% for Cuomo and 1.8% for Sliwa, and carried 77 of 77 election districts here.
East Flatbush · Source: NYC DOHMH 2026 Community Health Profiles
| Indicator | Value | Boro Rank | NYC Rank | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 145,546 | #9 of 18 | #29 of 59 | ↑ #9 |
| Age 0–17 | 17.4% | #15 of 18 | #42 of 59 | ↑ #15 |
| Age 18–24 | 7.3% | #13 of 18 | #48 of 59 | ↑ #13 |
| Age 25–44 | 27.6% | #14 of 18 | #38 of 59 | ↑ #14 |
| Age 45–64 | 26.5% | #2 of 18 | #10 of 59 | ↑ #2 |
| Age 65+ | 21.2% | #2 of 18 | #10 of 59 | ↑ #2 |
| Asian | 1.6% | #17 of 18 | #54 of 59 | ↑ #17 |
| Black | 87.0% | #1 of 18 | #1 of 59 | ↑ #1 |
| Latino | 7.5% | #18 of 18 | #56 of 59 | ↑ #18 |
| White | 1.6% | #17 of 18 | #53 of 59 | ↑ #17 |
| Other race/ethnicity | 2.2% | #11 of 18 | #29 of 59 | ↑ #11 |
| Limited English Proficiency | 7.8% | #14 of 18 | #49 of 59 | ↑ #14 |
| Born Outside the US | 47.3% | #4 of 18 | #10 of 59 | ↑ #4 |
| Elementary School Absenteeism | 39.5% | #14 of 18 | #42 of 59 | ↓ #14 |
| On-Time High School Graduation | 85.5% | #7 of 18 | #31 of 59 | ↑ #7 |
| Did Not Complete High School | 13.6% | #8 of 18 | #24 of 59 | ↓ #8 |
| High School Grad / Some College | 50.3% | #3 of 18 | #3 of 59 | ↑ #3 |
| College Degree or Higher | 36.1% | #16 of 18 | #44 of 59 | ↑ #16 |
| Poverty | 17.4% | #6 of 18 | #30 of 59 | ↓ #6 |
| Unemployment | 8.8% | #16 of 18 | #41 of 59 | ↓ #16 |
| Rent Burden | 53.0% | #14 of 18 | #39 of 59 | ↓ #14 |
| Avertable Deaths | 36.0 | #12 of 18 | #29 of 59 | ↓ #12 |
| Helpful Neighbors | 42.4% | #17 of 18 | #57 of 59 | ↑ #17 |
| Non-Fatal Assault Hospitalizations | 69.0 | #14 of 18 | #41 of 59 | ↓ #14 |
| Jail Incarceration | 264.9 | #14 of 18 | #43 of 59 | ↓ #14 |
| Air Conditioning | 89.8% | #11 of 18 | #36 of 59 | ↑ #11 |
| Air Pollution | 6.6 | #9 of 18 | #18 of 59 | ↓ #9 |
| Renter Homes with Health-Related Housing Problems | 81.0% | #17 of 18 | #50 of 59 | ↓ #17 |
| Homes Reporting Cockroaches | 51.3% | #18 of 18 | #48 of 59 | ↓ #18 |
| Ratio of Bodegas to Supermarkets | 9.4 | #7 of 18 | #37 of 59 | ↓ #7 |
| Farmers Markets | 2 | #8 of 18 | #30 of 59 | ↑ #8 |
| Bicycle Network Coverage | 10.7% | #15 of 18 | #46 of 59 | ↑ #15 |
| Pedestrian Injury Hospitalizations | 16.6 | #14 of 18 | #38 of 59 | ↓ #14 |
| Late or No Prenatal Care | 13.3% | #17 of 18 | #52 of 59 | ↓ #17 |
| Preterm Births | 13.0% | #18 of 18 | #58 of 59 | ↓ #18 |
| Teen Births | 10.1% | #11 of 18 | #33 of 59 | ↓ #11 |
| Childhood Obesity | 25.6% | #15 of 18 | #37 of 59 | ↓ #15 |
| Child Asthma Emergency Department Visits | 300.4 | #17 of 18 | #55 of 59 | ↓ #17 |
| Self-Reported Good Health | 86.0% | #4 of 18 | #18 of 59 | ↑ #4 |
| Physical Activity | 67.4% | #10 of 18 | #34 of 59 | ↑ #10 |
| Sugary Drink Consumption | 17.5% | #15 of 18 | #40 of 59 | ↓ #15 |
| Fruit and Vegetable Consumption | 85.2% | #14 of 18 | #37 of 59 | ↑ #14 |
| Current Smokers | 12.9% | #16 of 18 | #53 of 59 | ↓ #16 |
| Uninsured | 5.5% | #3 of 18 | #7 of 59 | ↓ #3 |
| Unmet Medical Care | 14.7% | #8 of 18 | #33 of 59 | ↓ #8 |
| Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Adults | 1138.9 | #14 of 18 | #39 of 59 | ↓ #14 |
| Fall-Related Hospitalizations Among Older Adults | 755.5 | #1 of 18 | #2 of 59 | ↓ #1 |
| Flu Vaccination | 42.4% | #13 of 18 | #50 of 59 | ↑ #13 |
| HPV Vaccination | 45.4% | #6 of 18 | #28 of 59 | ↑ #6 |
| Obesity | 25.6% | #7 of 18 | #25 of 59 | ↓ #7 |
| Diabetes | 21.7% | #18 of 18 | #55 of 59 | ↓ #18 |
| Hypertension | 39.8% | #17 of 18 | #57 of 59 | ↓ #17 |
| New HIV Diagnoses | 22.8 | #11 of 18 | #38 of 59 | ↓ #11 |
| New Hepatitis C Reports | 23.8 | #8 of 18 | #25 of 59 | ↓ #8 |
| Binge Drinking | 15.5% | #3 of 18 | #4 of 59 | ↓ #3 |
| Psychiatric Hospitalizations | 614.7 | #13 of 18 | #42 of 59 | ↓ #13 |
| Infant Mortality | 5.9 | #17 of 18 | #51 of 59 | ↓ #17 |
| Premature Mortality Number | 1,839 | #15 of 18 | #49 of 59 | ↓ #15 |
| Premature Mortality Rate | 248.8 | #14 of 18 | #42 of 59 | ↓ #14 |
| Life Expectancy | 82.0 years | #12 of 18 | #33 of 59 | ↑ #12 |
Another 177 measures are published for Brooklyn CB17 by the city Health Department, covering asthma, air quality, mortality, housing conditions, mental health and more. Each charts over time and ranks against the other 58 districts.
Open the health data for Brooklyn CB17 → See it on the map →Life expectancy from the 2026 Community Health Profiles, 2013 to 2022. Everything else from the Environment and Health Data Portal. Many of these are estimates with real uncertainty at district level.
Three city and state datasets, each filtered to Brooklyn CB17 and each searchable in full. Every figure below is a count of records placed inside this district by their own coordinates.
A liquor licence is not a business and one address can hold several. Certification covers only firms that applied for it, not every business here. Food stores are those of 3,000 square feet or more, plus greenmarkets.
Reported crime, arrests, shootings, moving violations and parking tickets for BKCB17, each record placed by its own coordinates inside the district boundary. Open BKCB17 public safety →
Precinct and community district lines are drawn by different agencies and do not line up. The share shown is how much of BKCB17 each precinct covers, which is not the same as how much of that precinct sits inside BKCB17. See the overlap both ways →
Speed limits, bike routes, bus routes and stops, subway, truck routes and Citi Bike, mapped for this district: open the transportation map →
Every district line that crosses this one, with the share of each, computed from the published boundaries.
| 67 Precinct | 100% of the district | 100% of it |
| Sector 67D | 27% of the district | 100% of it | |
| Sector 67E | 23% of the district | 100% of it | |
| Sector 67C | 18% of the district | 100% of it | |
| Sector 67B | 16% of the district | 100% of it | |
| Sector 67A | 16% of the district | 100% of it |
| School District 18 | 59% of the district | 32% of it | |
| School District 22 | 20% of the district | 5% of it | |
| School District 17 | 19% of the district | 14% of it | |
| School District 23 | 1% of the district | 2% of it |
