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Brook town, Indiana: commercial real estate data.
Brook town is a Census town of 900 people across 0.68 square miles of land, in Newton County. Median household income is $53,571, 80.5 percent of occupied homes are owned.
50 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Brook
What Brook is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.68 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,329
- County holding the largest share of its areaNewton 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.
Brook
How many people live in Brook
- Population900
- Median age34.6
- Population under 18193 plus or minus 58
- Share under 1821.4 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Population 65 and over163 plus or minus 41
- Share 65 and over18.1 percent
- Households338
- Family households250 plus or minus 55
- Share of households that are families74.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brook
Income and work in Brook
- Median household income$53,571 plus or minus $12,114
- Per capita income$26,070
- Civilian labor force486 plus or minus 111
- Employed406 plus or minus 97
- Unemployed80 plus or minus 40
- Unemployment rate16.5 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Adults 25 and over605
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher81.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.9 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.0 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brook
Housing in Brook
- Housing units395
- Occupied units338
- Vacant units57 plus or minus 33
- Vacancy rate14.4 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Owner occupied272 plus or minus 56
- Renter occupied66 plus or minus 35
- Ownership rate80.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$116,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$880
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.7 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Single family units365
- Share single family92.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more30 plus or minus 29
- Share in buildings of two or more7.6 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1954
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brook
How Brook gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute369 plus or minus 91
- Commuting under 15 minutes70 plus or minus 25
- Share commuting under 15 minutes19.0 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more157 plus or minus 54
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more42.5 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Drove alone70.5 percent
- Carpooled24.0 percent plus or minus 15.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.8 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Worked from home4.7 percent plus or minus 3.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Newton County, not Brook
Newton County context, not Brook figures
These are Newton County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Brook measurements.
- Establishments in Newton County232
- Employment at those establishments, Newton County2,151
- Covered employment, Newton County3,237
- Average annual pay, Newton County$48,666
- Average weekly wage, Newton County$936
- Housing units permitted, Newton County26
- Of those, single family, Newton County26
- County product, 2024, Newton County$504,124,000
- County product change over the prior year, Newton County3.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Newton County$53,802
Every figure in this section is published for Newton County as a whole and is not a measurement of Brook. 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
Brook questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Brook, Indiana?
900, in 338 households. Brook town covers 0.68 square miles of land, which is 1,329 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Brook in?
Newton 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 Brook?
$53,571. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $116,200. Median gross rent is $880 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 Brook figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Newton 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 Brook.
Is zoning published for Brook?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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