About Brush

Brush is a somewhat small city located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 5,095 people and just one neighborhood, Brush is the 76th largest community in Colorado.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Brush is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.8% of the Brush workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Brush is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brush who work in office and administrative support jobs (11.12%), sales jobs (6.28%), and management occupations (5.78%).

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.03 minutes getting to work every day.

Brush is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Brush isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.9% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Brush is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Brush Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Brush is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 14.96%: 14.52% of adults 25 and older in Brush have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Brush in 2000 was $14,672, which is lower middle income relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $58,688 for a family of four.

Brush is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Brush home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Brush is White, followed by Asian. Brush also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 37.04% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Brush include German, English, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Brush is English. Some people also speak Spanish.