Crown Heights/Prospect Heights Neighborhood Profile

Neighborhood Indicators

Demographics

Indicator	2000	2006	2010	2019
Population
Born in New York State		50.5%	48.5%	48.5%
Disabled population			5.0%	7.0%
Foreign-born population	30.7%	32.2%	30.1%	23.7%
Population	123,117	127,013	119,323	128,327
Population aged 65+	9.6%	9.5%	9.1%	13.6%
Households
Households with children under 18 years old	38.2%	35.1%	30.7%	21.9%
Single-person households		32.2%	33.2%	33.4%
Race and Ethnicity
Percent Asian	1.5%	2.0%	3.3%	3.2%
Percent Black	78.1%	73.5%	61.6%	48.8%
Percent Hispanic	9.8%	9.8%	13.7%	14.1%
Percent white	7.4%	12.5%	19.0%	30.8%
Racial diversity index	0.37	0.43	0.56	0.65
Income and Poverty
Income diversity ratio		6.9	6.3	7.1
Median household income (2021$)	$49,540	$51,020	$46,810	$78,210
Median household income, homeowners (2021$)		$94,160	$92,970	$146,420
Median household income, renters (2021$)		$41,630	$42,640	$64,650
Poverty rate	28.2%	22.9%	25.9%	15.9%
Poverty rate, population aged 65+		26.2%	15.7%	17.1%
Poverty rate, population under 18 years old		32.8%	42.5%	19.2%
Labor Market
Labor force participation rate		65.9%	66.4%	67.9%
Population aged 25+ without a high school diploma		20.0%	16.1%	11.1%
Unemployment rate	14.67%	12.74%	10.09%	4.12%

Housing Market and Conditions

Indicator	2000	2006	2010	2019	2020	2021
Housing Stock
Homeownership rate	16.0%	20.0%	19.3%	21.4%
Housing units		54,172	56,344	60,403
Rental vacancy rate			5.3%	3.3%
Serious housing code violations (per 1,000 privately owned rental units)		156.8	111.1	143.0	109.7	166.0
Severe crowding rate (% of renter households)			2.7%	2.4%
Total housing code violations (per 1,000 privately owned rental units)		699.6	422.9	541.5	377.5	640.4
Finance - Distress
Notices of foreclosure rate (per 1,000 1-4 family and condo properties)	26.5	28.8	37.5	11.7	7.0	7.9
Notices of foreclosure, all residential properties	175	184	294	97	54	72
Notices of foreclosure, initial, 1-4 family and condo properties	88	120	132	37	19	17
Notices of foreclosure, repeat, 1-4 family and condo properties	26	27	88	42	29	38
Pre-foreclosure notice rate (per 1,000 1-4 family and condo properties)				48.0	25.7	23.6
Pre-foreclosure notices, 1-4 family and condo properties				324	177	164
Properties entering REO, 1-4 family	18	5	6
Finance - Lending
FHA/VA-backed home purchase loans (% of home purchase loans)		0.7%	34.0%	2.9%	2.4%
Higher-cost home purchase loans (% of home purchase loans)		32.1%	0.3%	2.1%	0.9%
Higher-cost refinance loans (% of refinance loans)		40.4%	2.7%	3.9%	0.7%
Home purchase loan rate (per 1,000 properties)		64.3	30.3	27.8	27.3
Home purchase loans in LMI tracts (% of home purchase loans)		68.9%	3.8%	38.7%	36.5%
Home purchase loans to LMI borrowers (% of home purchase loans)		2.1%	59.0%	1.2%	2.1%
Refinance loan rate (per 1,000 properties)		73.1	22.5	23.2	46.1
Sales - Volume
Sales volume, 1 family building	11	28	11	10	12	13
Sales volume, 2-4 family building	168	306	90	74	70	85
Sales volume, 5+ family building	59	83	38	16	22	27
Sales volume, condominium	25	130	162	140	171	219
Sales volume, all property types	263	547	301	240	275	344
Sales - Median Prices
Median sales price per unit, 1 family building (2021$)		$751,620	$423,530	$1,576,240	$2,272,960	$1,720,000
Median sales price per unit, 2-4 family building (2021$)		$353,180	$263,950	$502,430	$619,900	$636,000
Median sales price per unit, 5+ family building (2021$)		$110,370	$92,940	$241,250	$209,830	$295,830
Median sales price per unit, condominium (2021$)		$555,730	$528,590	$1,195,320	$1,209,820	$1,100,000
Sales - Housing Price Index
Index of housing price appreciation, 1 family building	100.0	309.4	181.7	680.8	674.6	728.5
Index of housing price appreciation, 2-4 family building	100.0	272.2	198.0	416.1	561.3	517.7
Index of housing price appreciation, 5+ family building	100.0	228.4	197.4	625.2	688.9	479.0
Index of housing price appreciation, condominium	100.0	293.8	294.0	573.3	508.8	578.5
Index of housing price appreciation, all property types	100.0	266.0	220.7	460.6	481.8	503.9
Subsidized Housing
Total number of subsidized properties (properties)						485
HUD Financing or Insurance (properties)						9
HUD Financing or Insurance (units)						193
HUD Project-based Rental Assistance Program (properties)						36
HUD Project-based Rental Assistance Program (units)						1,580
Low Income Housing Tax Credit (properties)						77
Low Income Housing Tax Credit (units)						2,038
Public Housing (properties)						33
Public Housing (units)						3,183
Mitchell-Lama (properties)						2
Mitchell-Lama (units)						240
421-a Tax Exemption (properties)						106
421-a Tax Exemption (units)						3,075
420-c Tax Exemption (properties)						116
420-c Tax Exemption (units)						2,247
NYC Housing Production Programs and Zoning Incentives or Requirements (properties)						195
Eligible to expire from housing programs between 2022 and 2027 (properties)						34
Eligible to expire from housing programs between 2022 and 2027 (units)						1,229
Eligible to expire from housing programs between 2028 and 2037 (properties)						43
Eligible to expire from housing programs between 2028 and 2037 (units)						716
Eligible to expire from housing programs in 2038 and later (properties)						30
Eligible to expire from housing programs in 2038 and later (units)						1,415

Land Use and Development

Indicator	2000	2006	2010	2019	2020
Density
Population density (1,000 persons per square mile)		57.2	53.7	57.8
Development
Units authorized by new residential building permits	152	24	10	310	946
Units issued new certificates of occupancy	17	310	197	288	257

Neighborhood Services and Conditions

Indicator	2000	2006	2010	2019	2020	2021
Commute
Car-free commute (% of commuters)	78.8%	79.8%	86.8%	85.4%
Mean travel time to work (minutes)	45.0	40.5	39.4	43.6
Crime and Incarceration
Serious crime rate (per 1,000 residents)		14.7	14.0	10.4	10.7	10.2
Serious crime rate, property (per 1,000 residents)		8.1	7.7	5.6	6.0	5.4
Serious crime rate, violent (per 1,000 residents)		6.6	6.3	4.8	4.7	4.8
Schools
Students performing at grade level in English language arts, 4th grade				51.6%
Students performing at grade level in math, 4th grade				45.5%

Renters

Indicator	2000	2006	2010	2019	2020	2021
Median Rent
Median rent, 2- and 3-bedrooms (2021$)			$1,250	$1,470
Median rent, all (2021$)	$960	$1,140	$1,290	$1,630
Median rent, recent movers (2021$)			$1,540	$2,130
Median rent, studios and 1-bedrooms (2021$)			$1,170	$1,300
Change in collected rent (2019-2020)					-2.0%
Affordability
Rental units affordable at 30% AMI (% of recently available units)			11.9%	5.8%
Rental units affordable at 80% AMI (% of recently available units)			63.1%	37.2%
Rental units affordable at 120% AMI (% of recently available units)			92.9%	84.0%
Rent Burden
Moderately rent-burdened households		23.5%	29.2%	22.7%
Moderately rent-burdened households, low income			29.4%	32.1%
Moderately rent-burdened households, moderate income			19.2%	23.3%
Severely rent-burdened households	24.7%		27.7%	26.8%
Severely rent-burdened households, low income			42.7%	42.9%
Severely rent-burdened households, moderate income			0.2%	1.0%
Rental Subsidy
Housing choice vouchers (% of occupied, privately owned rental units)			6.8%	5.3%	5.5%
Public housing (% of rental units)						7.8%

DEMOGRAPHICS

In 2019, there were an estimated 128,327 people in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights, of which 3.2% of the population identified as Asian, 48.8% identified as Black, 14.1% identified as Hispanic, and 30.8% identified as white.

Graph showing the racial and ethnic composition of Crown Heights/Prospect Heights in both 2000 and 2015-2019.

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In 2019, the household income group with the largest share (25.9%) of households was $100,001 - $250,000. In 2000, the household income group with the largest share (23.5%) of households was <= $20,000.

Graph showing the distribution of household income in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights in both 2000 and 2015-2019.

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Median household income in 2019 was $78,210, about 7% more than citywide median household income ($72,930). The poverty rate in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights was 15.9% in 2019 compared to 16.0% citywide.

The poverty rate in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights was 15.9% in 2019 compared to 16.0% citywide.

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The rent distribution shows the share of apartments by their size (according to the number of bedrooms), and then for each apartment size in the community district, the share of apartments according to their monthly gross rent. This distribution compares 5-year ACS figures from 2010 to 5-year ACS figures from 2019. This is a new figure made for the 2021 State of the City report.

Graph showing the distribution of rents in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights in both 2010 and 2015-2019.

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HOUSING

Renters

Real median gross rent in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights increased from $1,140 in 2006 to $1,630 in 2019. In 2019, 26.8% of renter households in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights were severely rent burdened (spent more than 50% of household income on rent). 37.2% of the rental units were affordable at 80% Area Median Income, 26 percentage points lower than the share in 2010. 7.8% of rental units were public housing rental units, as of 2021. The overall rental vacancy rate in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights was 3.3% in 2019.

Real median gross rent in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights increased from $1,130 in 2007 to $1,630 in 2019.

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7.8% of the rental units in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights are public housing rental units in 2021.

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Homeowners

In 2019, the homeownership rate in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights was 21.4%, lower than the citywide share of 31.9%. The homeownership rate in the neighborhood has increased by 2.1 percentage points since 2010. In 2020, the home purchase loan rate was 27.3 per 1,000 properties (owner-occupied 1-4 family buildings, condominiums, or cooperative apartments) and the refinance loan rate was 46.1 per 1,000 properties in the neighborhood. Out of all the first-time home purchase loans and refinance loans in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights, 0.9% and 0.7% were high cost loans, respectively. 72 properties had a filing of mortgage foreclosure in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights in 2021. There were 7.9 mortgage foreclosure actions initiated per 1,000 1-4 family properties and condominium units.

There were 7.9 mortgage foreclosure notices per 1,000 1-4 family properties and condominium units in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights in 2021

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Development

Department of Buildings issued new certificates of occupancy to 257 residential units in new buildings in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights in 2020, 31 less than the number of units certified in 2019.

Department of Buildings issued new certificates of occupancy to 257 residential units in new buildings in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights last year, 31 less than the number of units certified in 2019.

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Over the last decade, 3,474 units in 4+ unit buildings were built in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights. 70% were market rate, compared to 21% low-income. We use data from a variety of sources to count the number of income-restricted units targeted to households earning between 80% and 165% of AMI. However, due to restricted availability of granular data our calculations of income-restricted units should be read as conservative estimates. Read more about our methdology in the technical appendix of the 2021 Focus Report.

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NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES AND CONDITIONS

The serious crime rate was 10.2 serious crimes per 1,000 residents in 2021, compared to 12.2 serious crimes per 1,000 residents citywide.

The serious crime rate was 10.2 serious crimes per 1,000 residents in 2021, compared to 12.2 serious crimes per 1,000 residents citywide.

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Data Notes: See CoreData User Guide for more information about indicator definitions and methods.

Indicators: The rental vacancy rate, severe crowding rate, and the severely rent-burdened households indicators use five-year American Community Survey (ACS) estimates. Data under the 2010 heading comes from the 2006 – 2010 ACS and data under the 2019 heading comes from the 2015 – 2019 ACS.

Rankings: We report rankings out of all neighborhoods for which the indicator can be calculated. Rankings are listed for community districts, though some indicators are reported at the sub-borough area level.