Most of Brookside Village commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Brookside Village report 147 jobs; 858 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Brookside Village is better than 87% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (B). Measured by household income, Brookside Village is ahead of 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Brookside Village
Much of Brookside Village works one town over
57% of working residents work in a town that borders Brookside Village: Houston (44%) and Pearland (13%). Next door ↓
Brookside Village is a place people come home to
There are 147 jobs based in Brookside Village, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Brookside Village has about 890 people in it, 44% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 858 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Brookside Village’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car holds Brookside Village’s grade up (ahead of 96% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (5.9%) is left out: Brookside Village’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Brookside Village could be anywhere from B to A+.
Who leaves Brookside Village for work, and who comes in
On a workday 833 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 122 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Brookside Village on a workday afternoon, 44% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
44% of working residents work in Houston
Where Brookside Village clocks in
44% of workers
13% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Brookside Village makes things: 54% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brookside Village, 2013 → 2023: 126 → 147. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brookside Village’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Brookside Village takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brookside Village workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 615 commuters (the 15% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Brookside Village
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Brookside Village gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 727 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.5% of Brookside Village households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brookside Village’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200, Brookside Village ranks 426th of 6,161 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 29 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 424 | Frankenmuth Township MI | 1,872 | $102K | 5.5% | 1.5% | 1% | A |
| 425 | Lester Prairie MN | 1,881 | $97K | 3.0% | 0.8% | 3% | A |
| 426 | Brookside Village TX | 1,600 | $111K | 10.4% | 5.9% | 3% | A |
| 427 | Danvers Township IL | 1,842 | $98K | 2.9% | 2.9% | 3% | A |
| 428 | Curran Township IL | 1,533 | $103K | 4.1% | 3.6% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Brookside Village, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
The towns next door employ 57% of Brookside Village
The biggest share goes to Houston (44%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brookside Village workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brookside Village | – | A | B | 27 min | $110,833 |
| Houston | 44% | C+ | A | 27 min | $64,813 |
| Pearland | 13% | A+ | B− | 33 min | $118,842 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Brookside Village’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Brookside Village: questions
What is the median household income in Brookside Village?
$110,833 (±$33,150) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brookside Village?
10.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brookside Village?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brookside Village work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (44%, 14 mi), Pearland (13%, 2 mi), Pasadena (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brookside Village walkable?
Brookside Village is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brookside Village without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brookside Village, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brookside Village
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.