What is the population of Brookside town?

Brookside town has 1,200 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #300 of 593 in Alabama.

What is the median household income in Brookside town?

Median household income in Brookside town is $43,750 a year, 44.3% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Brookside town?

Median gross rent is not published a month and the median home value is $108,700.

Is Brookside town affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Brookside town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market.

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Brookside, AL population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Brookside, Alabama (Brookside, AL — Census place “Brookside town”) is 1,200 residents, ranking #300 of 593 places in Alabama. Median household income is $43,750, the median home is worth $108,700 and median gross rent runs — a month. Looking for the Brookside Alabama ZIP code list? 3 ZIP codes serve Brookside, AL: 35036, 35117, 35214.

Population: 1,200Brookside town residents
Median household income: $43,750Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $108,700Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: —Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 45.6 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 65.8%Owner-occupied households

Brookside ZIP codes (Alabama)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Brookside.

The Brookside AL ZIP code list below covers 3 ZIP codes. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

What the numbers mean in Brookside town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

The median home costs 2.5× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 28% of residents and 65.8% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Brookside town, AL in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Brookside town is a small town in Alabama, with 1,200 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #300 of 593 ranked by population — larger than 49% of them. The median age here is 45.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Brookside town earn a median of $43,750 a year, 44.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 21% below the $55,687 median for the 322 Alabama cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 28% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Brookside town is valued at $108,700, 64.2% below the national figure and 31% below the $158,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 65.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

The Census withheld gross rent for Brookside town because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Brookside town?: Brookside town has 1,200 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #300 of 593 in Alabama.
What is the median household income in Brookside town?: Median household income in Brookside town is $43,750 a year, 44.3% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Brookside town?: Median gross rent is not published a month and the median home value is $108,700.
Is Brookside town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Brookside town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market.
How current is this Brookside town data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.