Brewster’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Even though Brewster is a smaller village, it has many people who hop on public transportation – mostly taxis for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.
The percentage of adults in Brewster who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.11% of the adults in Brewster have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Brewster in 2022 was $34,983, which is lower middle income relative to New York, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,932 for a family of four. However, Brewster contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Brewster is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Brewster home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Brewster, accounting for 59.36% of the village’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Brewster residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Brewster include Italian, Irish, German, English, and Scottish.
Brewster also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 40.37%.
The most common language spoken in Brewster is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Indo-European.
