Brownsville is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 883 people and two associated neighborhoods, Brownsville is the 270th largest community in Kentucky.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Brownsville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Brownsville is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brownsville who work in sales jobs (17.56%), personal care services (15.05%), and management occupations (10.75%). It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Brownsville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Brownsville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Brownsville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Brownsville may be for you. Being a small city, Brownsville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Brownsville have a very low rate of college education: just 9.45% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities. The per capita income in Brownsville in 2022 was $15,605, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,420 for a family of four. However, Brownsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Brownsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brownsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Brownsville include German, Irish, English, Austrian, and Portuguese. The most common language spoken in Brownsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and Italian.
