BrooksKY
A town of 2,069, settled in 1885.
Is Brooks a good place to live?
Brooks’ best subject grade is an A for cost of living; its weakest is a D for health. 32% of residents are 65 or older in Brooks, above both the Kentucky town median (17%) and the median of U.S. towns (18%). No town among the 143 in Kentucky we compare has a lower share of adults with a bachelor’s degree than Brooks. Brooks is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 70% of U.S. towns. Jefferson Memorial Forest, at 152 acres with 2.2 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve. Brooks has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Brooks stand out
Where Brooks beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
99% of working residents leave Brooks for work
Where Brooks’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Brooks grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Kentucky), ordered by how far Brooks is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
United States Bullion Depository and 30 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Brooks. Close and well known come first.
Big draw18 mi LandmarkUnited States Bullion Depository13 mi MuseumSons of the American Revolution
9 mi Theme parkKentucky Kingdom
9 mi Stadium & arenaL&N Federal Credit Union Stadium
13 mi Stadium & arenaLynn Family Stadium
13 mi Stadium & arenaKFC Yum! CenterPhoto credits
United States Bullion Depository: Work permit Original author=Cliff, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kentucky Kingdom: Stevietheman at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium: Perthsider, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lynn Family Stadium: Bpluke01, CC BY-SA 4.0 · KFC Yum! Center: Jamesmac96, CC BY 3.0
Moving to Brooks: who provides what
Brooks is unincorporated, so Bullitt County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Brooks.
Brooks is less healthy than 94% of U.S. towns
Brooks beats the Kentucky average on 1 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 18. 19% of adults report frequent physical distress in Brooks, against 15% in Kentucky’s towns and 14% across U.S. towns. 23% of Brooks adults smoke cigarettes.
| Brooks | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 15% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 18% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 23% | 19% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 44% | 38% | 35% |
| What stands out | Brooks | KY |
|---|---|---|
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 84.2% | 81.3% |
| More uninsured adults | 8.4% | 5.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A smaller share of working residents in Brooks work locally than in the typical Kentucky or U.S. town
0.6% of working residents work locally in Brooks. Since 2013, Brooks has lost 85 jobs, to 233 in 2023. Brooks’ average trip to work is 26 minutes.
| Brooks | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 0.6% | 15% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 9.6% | 16% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $66,000 | $60,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Inland flooding leads a high hazard risk in Brooks
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 74% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Compared with most of Kentucky and the rest of the country, more of Brooks’ households own their home
Only 2 of the 143 Kentucky towns we compare have a higher share of households owning their home than Brooks. The typical Brooks home is worth about $293,000, down 1.4% in a year, 27% above the Kentucky typical home.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Brooks
Brooks has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 25° and about 15 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Conserved land covers 6.8% of Brooks
The trail density in Brooks is 0.6 miles per square mile.
| Brooks | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 6.8% | 1.7% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Jefferson Memorial Forest | 2.2 mi | 152 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Brooks
Colleges nearby
8 within 15 miles of the center of Brooks
About 1 of every 100 Brooks residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Kentucky.
Brooks’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Brooks.
Brooks has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Brooks reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Brooks with a neighbor →
Questions about Brooks
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Brooks, KY expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.