What is the population of Brooklyn, Illinois?

Brooklyn has a population of approximately 729 according to the latest available open data.

Where is Brooklyn, Illinois located?

Brooklyn is located in Illinois, United States, at approximate coordinates 38.6542°, -90.1679°.

What is the median household income in Brooklyn?

The median household income in Brooklyn is approximately $30,673 based on the most recent open data.

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Brooklyn

Total population

729

Median home value

$37,500

27.4%

Bachelor's+

Median income

$30,673

Brooklyn$31k

National$74k

Founded

1873

Elevation126 m

Land area0.83 km²

Weather69°F · Showers And Thunderstorms Likely

Coordinates38.65°, -90.17°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

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City facts

Founded

1873

Elevation

126 m

Area

0.83 km²

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Brooklyn is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, Brooklyn had a population of 649. Located two miles north of East St. Louis, Illinois and three miles northeast of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, it is the oldest majority-Black incorporated town in the United States, founded by freed and fugitive slaves and incorporated in 1873. Its motto is "Founded by Chance, Sustained by Courage."

History & geography

History

A missionary AME Church was established in the new settlement in 1836. In 2015, the county's state attorney Brendan Kelly described the village as a 'failed state.' According to oral history tradition, by 1829 "Mother" Priscilla Baltimore led a group of eleven families, composed of both fugitive and free African Americans, to flee slavery in St. Louis, Missouri. They crossed the Mississippi River to the free state of Illinois, where they established a freedom village in the American Bottom. "Mother" Baltimore was said to have purchased her freedom as an adult from her master. She also bought the freedom of members of her family. Born in Kentucky, she tracked her white father to Missouri and bought her mother's freedom from him. Miranda Yancey-Bailey, an archeologist working on a 21st-century project in Brooklyn, has found written evidence that Baltimore still lived in St. Louis in the 1830s; the first documentation of her associated with Brooklyn is from 1839. She may have been traveling between these locations for a time. Baltimore had become a Methodist preacher and participated in the religious life of the new settlement. William Paul Quinn, then a missionary of the newly formed African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), visited the settlement in 1836 and helped found the Brooklyn AME church that year. He had been assigned as a missionary that year to what was then called the Northwest, including Indiana and Ohio. Quinn was also active in planting new congregations in Kentucky and Missouri; he later became the fourth bishop of the AME Church. Brooklyn AME Church is thought to be the first AME Church west of the Appalachian Mountains. It is now known as Quinn's Chapel AME Church in his honor. In 1837, five white abolitionists platted the land and created an…