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Brookshire, TX

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Overview


Brookshire is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 5,667 people and just one neighborhood, Brookshire is the 376th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Brookshire is a blue-collar town, with 35.93% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Brookshire is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Brookshire who work in office and administrative support (18.70%), healthcare (7.79%), and sales jobs (7.62%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small city, Brookshire does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Brookshire are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.25% of adults in Brookshire have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Brookshire in 2022 was $23,453, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $93,812 for a family of four. However, Brookshire contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Brookshire is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Brookshire home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Brookshire, accounting for 63.41% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Brookshire residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Brookshire include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Brazilian.

In addition, Brookshire has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (19.32%).

The most common language spoken in Brookshire is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Brookshire, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 89.9% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Brookshire are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 32.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.0%), and 18.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 55.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (42.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Brookshire, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (49.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (4.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (3.2%), among others. In addition, 20.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (89.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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