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.