Brookshire is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 5,533 people and just one neighborhood, Brookshire is the 376th largest community in Texas.
When you are in Brookshire, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.35% of Brookshire’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Brookshire is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Brookshire who work in office and administrative support (11.56%), maintenance occupations (10.69%), and food service (8.96%).
Being a small city, Brookshire does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Brookshire has a very low overall level of education: only 9.74% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Brookshire in 2022 was $18,314, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,256 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 64.95% 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, Brazilian, and Italian.
Brookshire also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 25.04%.
The most common language spoken in Brookshire is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.7% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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, 2.0% 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 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this 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 69.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 35.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.2%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 52.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (44.3%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Brookshire, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (47.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.7%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.4%), among others. In addition, 25.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.0%) 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 (11.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.