Kings County, NY
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Kings County is located in New York State. It is one of the five boroughs of New York City, coterminous with the borough of Brooklyn. According to the New York State Death Index, 9,497 deaths were recorded in Kings County from 1880 to 1956.
Between 1957 and 1956, there were also 26,253 people who were usually residents of Kings County but who died in a different county in New York.
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Deaths in Kings County 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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Towns, Neighborhoods, and Other Locations in Kings County (Brooklyn), New York
Many different localities within Kings County have recorded deaths over the years. Some of these places were actually neighborhoods or small hamlets (some now defunct, or consolidated into other locales) whose vital records information was eventually managed by a larger town or city they were within, or sometimes even by their county registrar. Some government-run facilties such as VA Hospitals and state-run developmental centers may have managed their own death registrations too, separately from the towns in which they were located.
Statistics & Insights
Most Common Surnames
People who died in Kings County between 1880-1956, or who were residents at the time of their death but died elsewhere (1957-1956)
Residents Who Died Elsewhere
Data for 1957-2017
Age at Death Statistics for Kings County
Data for 1940-1956
Oldest Recorded Residents
Average Age of Death in Kings County by Decade
