East Brookfield is a very small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 2,204 people and just one neighborhood, East Brookfield is the 298th largest community in Massachusetts. East Brookfield has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns, East Brookfield isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in East Brookfield are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, East Brookfield is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in East Brookfield who work in sales jobs (12.71%), healthcare (11.79%), and office and administrative support (11.60%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.56% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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!) East Brookfield 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. East Brookfield has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in East Brookfield than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, East Brookfield may be for you.
In East Brookfield, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.31 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, East Brookfield does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, East Brookfield is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 26.03% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in East Brookfield in 2022 was $41,738, which is low income relative to Massachusetts, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $166,952 for a family of four.
The people who call East Brookfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of East Brookfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in East Brookfield include French, Irish, English, Italian, and German.
The most common language spoken in East Brookfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.0% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 4.7% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 East Brookfield are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.3% 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, 42.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.5%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in East Brookfield, MA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (14.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.0%), along with some German ancestry residents (6.9%), among others.
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (37.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (86.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.