Brenham is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Brenham enrolled in college, Brenham has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
One of the benefits of Brenham is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.68 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Brenham is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Brenham who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.29% of adults in Brenham have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Brenham in 2022 was $27,592, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,368 for a family of four. However, Brenham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Brenham is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Brenham home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brenham residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Brenham also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.13% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Brenham include German, Irish, English, French, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Brenham is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
