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Brookwood, AL

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Overview


Brookwood is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,455 people and just one neighborhood, Brookwood is the 189th largest community in Alabama. Much of the housing stock in Brookwood was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Brookwood economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Brookwood, where the median household income is $75,125.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Brookwood is a blue-collar town, with 37.54% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Brookwood is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brookwood who work in office and administrative support (14.22%), healthcare (9.38%), and management occupations (7.92%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Brookwood has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Brookwood has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Brookwood than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Brookwood may be for you.

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

Demographics

The population of Brookwood overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Brookwood, 21.41% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Brookwood in 2022 was $32,634, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $130,536 for a family of four. However, Brookwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Brookwood is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Brookwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brookwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Brookwood include English, Irish, German, French, and Scottish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 90.2% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.9% 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.

In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.6% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry.

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 Brookwood are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.6% 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 56.9% of America'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, 34.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.9%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.

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 Brookwood, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (90.2%) 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 (6.4%) . 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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