Brooks is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,469 people and just one neighborhood, Brooks is the 165th largest community in Kentucky.
Brooks is a blue-collar town, with 39.32% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Brooks is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brooks who work in sales jobs (15.82%), management occupations (12.28%), and office and administrative support (7.44%).
A relatively large number of people in Brooks telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.20% 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.
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!) Brooks 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. Brooks has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Brooks than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Brooks may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Brooks doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Brooks ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.14% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Brooks in 2022 was $28,435, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $113,740 for a family of four. However, Brooks contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Brooks home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brooks residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Brooks include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Brooks is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and German/Yiddish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Brooks are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.8% 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, 37.1% 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.1%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.
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 Brooks, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.2%), and residents who report German roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.
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 (31.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.