44144Brooklyn, Ohio

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 44144.

65out of 100
Area Score
Top 33% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3769th of 6,210 published ZIP areas50
Schools3542nd of 4,422 published ZIP areas28
Growth3850th of 5,428 published ZIP areas37
Housing affordabilityTop 17% of 6,685 published ZIP areas97
Climate3566th of 6,789 published ZIP areas69
Physical resilienceTop 1% of 6,709 published ZIP areas97
AccessTop 8% of 6,791 published ZIP areas99
Economic stability3848th of 6,742 published ZIP areas56
The quick read

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 20% of median household income and the median home is 2.5 times it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 44144 in the top 1% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 6 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
21,394
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$60,223
Bottom 30% nationally
Density
3,855/sq mi
5.5 sq mi of land
Median age
42.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Brooklyn
Ohio
Metro area
Cleveland, OH
Nearest major airport
CLE
6 mi · Cleveland-Hopkins Intl
Median home value
$149,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.7% is lower than 78% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.7% over the past year, to 608,361 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$3,657$60,223Bottom 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,145$32,522Bottom 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate16.1%Top 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute22.1 minBottom 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher18.5%Bottom 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment608,361Top 9%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.8%Top 39%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.7%Bottom 28%June 2026
Labor force631,460Top 9%June 2026
Labor force participation65.0%Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$66,310Bottom 41%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$50,140Bottom 48%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.9%Bottom 9%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.7%Bottom 22%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202460k50k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $60,223 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Cleveland, OH
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
General and Operations Managers29,510$97,750
Registered Nurses28,240$83,940
Fast Food and Counter Workers28,010$28,750
Retail Salespersons24,650$31,000
Stockers and Order Fillers22,660$36,290
Home Health and Personal Care Aides19,400$34,520

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Brooklyn, OH, the city containing this ZIP code.

27% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 43% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 17.3 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
26.9%
Bottom 22% in Ohio
Reading proficiency
42.9%
Bottom 32% in Ohio
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Brooklyn SchoolBrooklyn City66817.633%47%
Rhodes College and Career AcademyCleveland Municipal58823.5
Brooklyn High SchoolBrooklyn City47014.227%37%
William Rainey HarperCleveland Municipal42317.617%42%
Rhodes School of Environmental StudiesCleveland Municipal33014.3

67.0% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Ohio’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $979 takes 20% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.5 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
19.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$979
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$149,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.49Bottom 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate59.2%Bottom 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±46410,212Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$76$979Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$5,867$149,900Bottom 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income19.5%Top 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.6%Bottom 15%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
37/ 100
Ranks 3850 of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 2.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
24
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.2
Bottom 42% nationally
Year over year
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Brooklyn, OH, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 81°F and January a low of 24°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 33.3 inches.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station CLEVELAND BURKE AP, 6.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND3.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation33.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low24°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high81°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

97 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are tornado and winter weather.

TornadoModerate
Winter weatherModerate

Low or minimal exposure: cold wave, inland flooding, heat wave, strong wind, lightning, ice storm, earthquake, hurricane, wildfire, hail, landslide, coastal flooding.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Cuyahoga County records 11.6 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 16.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 23.5 per 100,000 residents in Cuyahoga County.

Homicide
11.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
16.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
23.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
13.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Cuyahoga County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 44144 rather than 44144 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 6 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Cleveland-Hopkins IntlCLE6 mi9,953 ft
Akron-Canton RgnlCAK39 mi8,204 ft
Youngstown/Warren RgnlYNG56 mi9,003 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

44144 vs Brooklyn

How this ZIP area compares with Brooklyn as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

44144
Brooklyn
Median household income
$60,223
vs
$69,346
Per capita income
$32,522
vs
$35,008
Population density
3,855/sq mi
vs
2,625/sq mi
Median home value
$149,900
vs
$163,100
Median gross rent
$979
vs
$971
Homeownership rate
59.2%
vs
59.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher
18.5%
vs
18.8%
Poverty rate
16.1%
vs
9.1%
Median age
42.7
vs
47.8

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.