HomeKentuckyEdmonson CountyBrownsville city
Brownsville city, Kentucky: commercial real estate data.
Brownsville city is a Census city of 1,068 people across 2.61 square miles of land, in Edmonson County. Median household income is $35,481, 48.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $85,000.
66 sourced place values · tier FULL · 7 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Brownsville
What Brownsville is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.61 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land409 plus or minus 114
- County holding the largest share of its areaEdmonson 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.
Brownsville
How many people live in Brownsville
- Population1,068 plus or minus 298
- Median age38.8
- Population under 18309 plus or minus 86
- Share under 1828.9 percent plus or minus 11.4
- Population 65 and over273 plus or minus 75
- Share 65 and over25.6 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Households411 plus or minus 97
- Family households295 plus or minus 97
- Share of households that are families71.8 percent plus or minus 16.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brownsville
Income and work in Brownsville
- Median household income$35,481 plus or minus $19,264
- Per capita income$19,803
- Civilian labor force350 plus or minus 138
- Employed335 plus or minus 138
- Unemployed15 plus or minus 16
- Unemployment rate4.3 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Adults 25 and over703 plus or minus 164
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher70.8 percent plus or minus 22.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher6.4 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.0 percent plus or minus 2.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brownsville
Housing in Brownsville
- Housing units525 plus or minus 126
- Occupied units411 plus or minus 97
- Vacant units114 plus or minus 70
- Vacancy rate21.7 percent plus or minus 12.3
- Owner occupied201 plus or minus 80
- Renter occupied210 plus or minus 60
- Ownership rate48.9 percent plus or minus 15.7
- Median owner-occupied home value$161,000 plus or minus $108,607
- Median gross rent, monthly$675 plus or minus $268
- Annual rent as a share of median income22.8 percent plus or minus 15.4
- Single family units288 plus or minus 104
- Share single family54.9 percent plus or minus 14.8
- Units in buildings of two or more158 plus or minus 64
- Share in buildings of two or more30.1 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Mobile homes79 plus or minus 37
- Median year structure built1981
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brownsville
How Brownsville gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute329 plus or minus 137
- Commuting under 15 minutes167 plus or minus 130
- Share commuting under 15 minutes50.8 percent plus or minus 33.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more126 plus or minus 55
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more38.3 percent
- Drove alone55.2 percent plus or minus 29.8
- Carpooled15.4 percent plus or minus 12.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked26.4 percent plus or minus 32.4
- Worked from home2.4 percent plus or minus 4.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brownsville
SBA loans in Brownsville (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$85,000
- Average approval$42,500
- Median approval$60,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$60,000
- Largest approval$60,000
- Jobs supported1
- Jobs per approval0.5
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Edmonson County, not Brownsville
Edmonson County context, not Brownsville figures
These are Edmonson County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Brownsville measurements.
- Establishments in Edmonson County130
- Employment at those establishments, Edmonson County958
- Covered employment, Edmonson County1,681
- Average annual pay, Edmonson County$42,464
- Average weekly wage, Edmonson County$817
- County product, 2024, Edmonson County$250,281,000
- County product change over the prior year, Edmonson County5.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Edmonson County$55,969
Every figure in this section is published for Edmonson County as a whole and is not a measurement of Brownsville. 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 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.
- 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
Brownsville questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Brownsville, Kentucky?
1,068, in 411 households. Brownsville city covers 2.61 square miles of land, which is 409 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Brownsville in?
Edmonson 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 Brownsville?
$35,481. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $161,000. Median gross rent is $675 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Brownsville businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $85,000, across 2 lenders, median approval $60,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Brownsville, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Brownsville borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Brownsville. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Brownsville figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Edmonson 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 Brownsville.
Is zoning published for Brownsville?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.