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Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Brookside Village is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,592 people and just one neighborhood, Brookside Village is the 716th largest community in Texas.
Brookside Village real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although Brookside Village house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Brookside Village is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Brookside Village is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brookside Village who work in office and administrative support (22.07%), sales jobs (9.46%), and business and financial occupations (7.51%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.64% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, Brookside Village is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Brookside Village a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Brookside Village has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Brookside Village’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Brookside Village has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Brookside Village a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Brookside Village is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Brookside Village, the average commute to work is 31.05 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Brookside Village does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
In terms of college education, the citizens of Brookside Village rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.48% of adults 25 and older in Brookside Village have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Brookside Village in 2022 was $39,188, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $156,752 for a family of four. However, Brookside Village contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Brookside Village is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Brookside Village 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 Brookside Village, accounting for 49.80% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Brookside Village residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Brookside Village include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Brookside Village is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Brookside Village, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Car Ownership
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 45.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Real Estate
The neighborhood has earned the amazing distinction of having one of the highest rates of detached, single-family homes of any neighborhood in the U.S. With 97.6% of the residential real estate here made up of free-standing single-family homes, there is a greater proportion of single-family homes here than in 95.7% of all neighborhoods in America.
People
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 8.4% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Texas. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Diversity
Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.0% 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 Brookside Village are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 58.6% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 29.0% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.5%), and 17.0% 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 72.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (25.7%).
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 Brookside Village, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (41.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report German roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.3%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (4.0%), among others. In addition, 11.5% 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
