Metro

Brooklyn boasts the hottest job market in the country

Brooklyn is booming, according to state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

The number of new jobs in the borough has been growing at a faster rate than either the state or national economies, DiNapoli said during a visit to the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Friday.

“It’s an exciting time for Brooklyn with record employment, business growth, and a budding tech sector,” he said.

Since 2009, Brooklyn has added 172,600 private-sector jobs.

Last year, private-sector jobs grew by 4.4 percent.

And unemployment plummeted from a high of 9.9 percent in 2010 to just 4.6 percent last year, a record low, the comptroller said.

The rate dropped even further by April of this year, to just 4.2 percent.

DiNapoli said 15 million people a year visit Brooklyn, and residents are seeing their household incomes rise, while education levels are also soaring.

Health care accounts for about a quarter of the borough’s private-sector jobs, followed by retail.

Hospitality and leisure, manufacturing and construction also drive job growth in the borough, while movies, music and telecommunications have also added thousands of jobs.