Brownsville is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 894 people and two associated neighborhoods, Brownsville is the 270th largest community in Kentucky.Brownsville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Brownsville is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Brownsville who work in personal care services (14.38%), sales jobs (13.71%), and food service (8.36%). Also of interest is that Brownsville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Overall, Brownsville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Brownsville 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. Brownsville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Brownsville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Brownsville may be for you. As is often the case in a small city, Brownsville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The population of Brownsville has a very low overall level of education: only 6.94% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. The per capita income in Brownsville in 2022 was $18,298, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,192 for a family of four. However, Brownsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Brownsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brownsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Brownsville include German, Irish, English, Austrian, and Portuguese. The most common language spoken in Brownsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and Italian.
