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Brookside town, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Brookside town is a Census town of 1,603 people across 6.31 square miles of land, in Jefferson County. Median household income is $59,271, 68.9 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Brookside
What Brookside is
- Census place typetown
- Land area6.31 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land254 plus or minus 74
- County holding the largest share of its areaJefferson County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brookside
How many people live in Brookside
- Population1,603 plus or minus 465
- Median age33.5 plus or minus 10.3
- Population under 18467 plus or minus 196
- Share under 1829.1 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Population 65 and over181 plus or minus 58
- Share 65 and over11.3 percent
- Households585 plus or minus 148
- Family households396 plus or minus 118
- Share of households that are families67.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brookside
Income and work in Brookside
- Median household income$59,271 plus or minus $27,225
- Per capita income$26,916 plus or minus $5,932
- Civilian labor force649 plus or minus 237
- Employed624 plus or minus 224
- Unemployed25 plus or minus 40
- Unemployment rate3.9 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Adults 25 and over975 plus or minus 248
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher87.7 percent plus or minus 29.4
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher10.5 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.7 percent plus or minus 1.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brookside
Housing in Brookside
- Housing units598 plus or minus 146
- Occupied units585 plus or minus 148
- Vacant units13 plus or minus 16
- Vacancy rate2.2 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Owner occupied403 plus or minus 105
- Renter occupied182 plus or minus 101
- Ownership rate68.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$107,400
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,098 plus or minus $474
- Annual rent as a share of median income22.2 percent plus or minus 14.0
- Single family units458 plus or minus 122
- Share single family76.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more76 plus or minus 75
- Share in buildings of two or more12.7 percent plus or minus 12.1
- Mobile homes60 plus or minus 39
- Median year structure built1970
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brookside
How Brookside gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute568 plus or minus 215
- Commuting under 15 minutes34 plus or minus 29
- Share commuting under 15 minutes6.0 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more206 plus or minus 112
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more36.3 percent plus or minus 14.2
- Drove alone89.1 percent
- Carpooled6.3 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Public transport0.3 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home3.4 percent plus or minus 4.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Jefferson County, not Brookside
Jefferson County context, not Brookside figures
These are Jefferson County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Brookside measurements.
- Establishments in Jefferson County16,989
- Employment at those establishments, Jefferson County341,042
- Covered employment, Jefferson County367,081
- Average annual pay, Jefferson County$71,562
- Average weekly wage, Jefferson County$1,376
- Housing units permitted, Jefferson County2,117
- Of those, single family, Jefferson County1,536
- County product, 2024, Jefferson County$65,539,202,000
- County product change over the prior year, Jefferson County4.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Jefferson County$73,144
Every figure in this section is published for Jefferson County as a whole and is not a measurement of Brookside. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Brookside questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Brookside, Alabama?
1,603, in 585 households. Brookside town covers 6.31 square miles of land, which is 254 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Brookside in?
Jefferson County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Brookside?
$59,271. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $107,400. Median gross rent is $1,098 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Brookside figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Jefferson County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Brookside.
Is zoning published for Brookside?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.