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Brooksville, MS

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Overview


Brooksville is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 891 people and just one neighborhood, Brooksville is the 178th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Brooksville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.14% of Brooksville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Brooksville is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brooksville who work in office and administrative support (20.57%), healthcare suport services (14.29%), and management occupations (12.57%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Brooksville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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, Brooksville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Brooksville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Brooksville is a very car-oriented town. 98.77% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Brooksville is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Brooksville has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Brooksville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Brooksville have a very low rate of college education: just 8.61% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Brooksville in 2022 was $13,798, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $55,192 for a family of four. Brooksville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 46.66% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Brooksville is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.

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.

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 98.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 92.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.5% of all American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

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 10 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.2% of America.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.5% 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.

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 33.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.9% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Mississippi, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Mississippi.

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 Brooksville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.0% 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, 31.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.0%), and 8.6% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Brooksville, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (7.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (1.6%).

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 (32.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (92.5%) 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 (7.5%) . 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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