Brookside median real estate price is $312,087, which is more expensive than 27.1% of the neighborhoods in Florida and 29.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Brookside is currently $1,703, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 85.6% of Florida neighborhoods.
Brookside is a remote neighborhood (based on population density) located in Fellsmere, Florida.
Brookside real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Brookside neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Brookside, the current vacancy rate is 1.9%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 86.7% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Brookside is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Fellsmere, the Brookside neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
In the Brookside neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 29.3% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 98.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 39.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
There are more people living in the Brookside neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (62.0%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Did you know that the Brookside neighborhood has more Canadian and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 65.6% have Mexican ancestry.
Brookside is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 68.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Brookside neighborhood in Fellsmere are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 67.4% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the Brookside neighborhood, 38.0% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 34.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.4%), and 6.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the Brookside neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 68.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, Italian and French.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Brookside neighborhood in Fellsmere, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (65.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (3.3%), and residents who report German roots (2.9%), and some of the residents are also of Canadian ancestry (2.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.6%), among others. In addition, 36.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Brookside neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (66.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (29.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.