Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0Brownsboro has lower household incomes than 70% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Brownsboro itself; outside it, Tyler draws the most (23%, 18 miles). 15.4% of residents are in poverty, next to 13.8% for Texas as a whole. Brownsboro grades C− for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Brownsboro stands out on work
How Brownsboro earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Brownsboro is better than 24% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Brownsboro’s grade.
Unemployment (3.2%) is left out: Brownsboro’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Brownsboro could be anywhere from D to B.
In and out of Brownsboro on a workday
On a workday 413 residents head out to work, 50 work right here, and 690 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Brownsboro on a workday afternoon, 21% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Brownsboro’s workers come from
Where Brownsboro clocks in
23% of workers
8% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Brownsboro
740 jobs are based in Brownsboro.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brownsboro, 2013 → 2023: 51 → 740. 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 Brownsboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way, longer than most of Texas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brownsboro workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 757 commuters (the 8% 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 Brownsboro
About 29% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
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.
Getting around Brownsboro: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brownsboro is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 4.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 822 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). 3.7% of Brownsboro households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brownsboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Brownsboro is 3,439th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 30 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,437 | Rockford OH | 1,039 | $58K | 10.8% | 3.9% | 8% | C− |
| 3,438 | Tennessee Ridge TN | 1,341 | $74K | 12.2% | 4.0% | 4% | C− |
| 3,439 | Brownsboro TX | 1,322 | $62K | 15.4% | 3.2% | 11% | C− |
| 3,440 | Smithville NY | 1,229 | $70K | 11.2% | 7.8% | 1% | C− |
| 3,441 | Middlebury Township OH | 1,437 | $66K | 16.9% | 0.0% | 4% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Brownsboro, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
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 Brownsboro: questions
What is the median household income in Brownsboro?
$62,250 (±$16,960) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brownsboro?
15.4%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brownsboro?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brownsboro work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tyler (23%, 18 mi), Athens (8%, 14 mi), Dallas (4%, 75 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brownsboro walkable?
Brownsboro is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brownsboro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brownsboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brownsboro
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.