North Brookfield is a very small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 4,728 people and just one neighborhood, North Brookfield is the 260th largest community in Massachusetts. North Brookfield has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns, North Brookfield isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in North Brookfield are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, North Brookfield is a town of professionals, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in North Brookfield who work in teaching (8.05%), sales jobs (8.02%), and management occupations (7.79%).
A relatively large number of people in North Brookfield telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.98% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
The town 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, North Brookfield has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes North Brookfield a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in North Brookfield, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.30 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, North Brookfield doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The overall education level of North Brookfield citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.87% of adults in North Brookfield have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in North Brookfield in 2022 was $40,445, which is low income relative to Massachusetts, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $161,780 for a family of four. However, North Brookfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call North Brookfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of North Brookfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in North Brookfield include French, Irish, English, Italian, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in North Brookfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 7.9% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 North Brookfield are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 22.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.0% 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, 35.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (9.4%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in North Brookfield, MA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (15.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report English roots (13.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.8%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (7.9%), among others.
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (37.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (84.5%) 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 (6.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.