Mental Health Research and Data for Brooklyn and New York City

Original data studies from Mind Body Seven on mental health, support and access to care in Brooklyn and New York City. We take public data from government sources, show our method, and publish the numbers behind every chart as a free CSV file. Every figure on these pages names its source and the period it covers.

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Studies and statistics

• Data study37.0%Where Support Is Thinnest: Brooklyn Neighborhoods Comparedof adults in Ocean Hill-Brownsville lack social and emotional support, the most of Brooklyn's 18 community districts (CDC PLACES, 2023).
• Data study252.3Therapists per 100,000: Brooklyn vs the Other Boroughslicensed therapists per 100,000 residents in Brooklyn, less than half of Manhattan's 554.7 (NYSED, as of July 1, 2026).
• Data study34.1%NYC Teens: What the Latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey Showsof NYC public high school students felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2025, down from 38.2% in 2021 (CDC YRBS).
• Statistics36.3%Brooklyn Mental Health Statisticsof Brooklyn adults report loneliness (CDC PLACES, 2023). The key figures on adults, suicide, access to care and teens in one place.

How we work

• Public data only. These pages use published government and public health data. They contain no patient information and no data from Mind Body Seven's own practice.
• Population figures, not advice. The numbers describe groups of people and places. They cannot tell you anything about one person's health, and they are not medical advice.
• Checked twice. Each figure is computed by a script from the raw files, then checked again against the source's own published table before it goes on a page.
• Free to reuse. The data files are licensed CC BY 4.0: use them with credit to Mind Body Seven and a link to the study.

Sources used across our research

• CDC PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, Census Tract Data, 2025 release (opens in a new tab)
• CDC PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, County Data, 2025 release (opens in a new tab)
• HRSA Mental Health HPSA detail file (BCD_HPSA_FCT_DET_MH) (opens in a new tab)
• NYC Department of City Planning, 2020 Census Tracts (opens in a new tab)
• NYC Department of City Planning, 2020 Community District Tabulation Areas (opens in a new tab)
• U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 to 2010 Census Tract Relationship File, New York (opens in a new tab)
• NYSED Office of the Professions, License Statistics: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (opens in a new tab)
• NYSED Office of the Professions, License Statistics: Mental Health Counselors (opens in a new tab)
• NYSED Office of the Professions, License Statistics: Marriage and Family Therapists (opens in a new tab)
• NYSED Office of the Professions, License Statistics: Psychology (opens in a new tab)
• NYSED Office of the Professions, License Statistics: Licensed Master Social Worker, Creative Arts Therapists and Psychoanalysts (opens in a new tab)
• U.S. Census Bureau, County Population Totals: 2020 to 2025 (Vintage 2025) (opens in a new tab)
• New York State, Annual Population Estimates for New York State and Counties (data.ny.gov) (opens in a new tab)
• CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2025 Combined Datasets (SADC), district and national high school files (opens in a new tab)
• CDC YRBS Explorer (opens in a new tab)
• CDC, Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System (YRBSS): Mental Health Indicators (data.cdc.gov) (opens in a new tab)
• NYC Health Department, Community Health Survey, via the Environment & Health Data Portal (opens in a new tab)
• NYS Department of Health, Community Health Indicator Reports (CHIRS): Latest Data (opens in a new tab)

This page reports public population data. It is general information, not medical advice, a diagnosis or a treatment plan, and reading it does not make you a patient of Mind Body Seven. For press questions about this research, use the contact page.