Brooklyn, NY

Located in Kings County, New York 2,662 deaths recorded (1880-1956)

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Brooklyn is a neighborhood or other location within Brooklyn (Kings County), in New York City, New York. According to the New York State Death Index, 2,662 deaths were recorded in Brooklyn from 1880 to 1956.

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Most Kings County (Brooklyn) death record data is not included in this state death index, because New York City vital records, both modern and historical, are generally kept separately from the rest of the New York State records. Before 1898, Kings County was not yet a part of New York City, and the registrations of deaths that happened within the county (and the cities and towns within it) were still being handled by the state Department of Health, not by the City. After 1898, a small number of NYC records were still ocassionally included or referenced in this state index, often because a resident of the city may have died while upstate, or vice versa.

Deaths in Brooklyn Recorded by the New York State Department of Health (1880-1956)

About 95% of the "place of death" information in the New York State Death Index was able to be standardized and matched to a known locality (town, city, county). The graph below, and its data counts, do not include the approximately 5% of death index records where the location was illegible or could not be easily matched. Information about a person's usual residence at the time of their death is only available in the state death index from 1957 onwards.

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Most Common Surnames

People who died in Brooklyn between 1880-1956, or who were residents at the time of their death but died elsewhere (1957-1956)

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Residents Who Died Elsewhere

Data for 1957-2017

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Age at Death Statistics for Brooklyn

Data for 1940-1956

Oldest Recorded Residents

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Average Age of Death in Brooklyn by Decade

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