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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Brookfield / Browns Corner median real estate price is $519,640, which is more expensive than 77.0% of the neighborhoods in Delaware and 71.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Brookfield / Browns Corner is currently $2,463, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 77.0% of the neighborhoods in Delaware.

Brookfield / Browns Corner is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Magnolia, Delaware.

Brookfield / Browns Corner real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Brookfield / Browns Corner neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

In Brookfield / Browns Corner, the current vacancy rate is 1.7%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 88.4% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Brookfield / Browns Corner is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Magnolia, the Brookfield / Browns Corner neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the Brookfield / Browns Corner neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.

In addition, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, Brookfield / Browns Corner is among the best neighborhoods for families in Delaware. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 98.5% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Delaware. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the Brookfield / Browns Corner neighborhood. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Brookfield / Browns Corner (30.8%) than in 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

Homes built from 2000 through today make up a higher proportion of the Brookfield / Browns Corner neighborhood's real estate landscape than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America. When you are driving around this neighborhood, you'll notice right away that it is one of the newest built of any, with the smell of fresh paint, and the look of young landscaping nearly everywhere you look. In fact, 70.7% of the residential real estate here is classified as newer.

In addition, one way that the Brookfield / Browns Corner neighborhood really stands out, is that it has more large 4, 5, or additional bedroom homes and real estate than 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America. When you walk or drive around this neighborhood, you'll instantly notice the size of the homes here which definitely makes a strong visual statement.

Diversity

Did you know that the Brookfield / Browns Corner neighborhood has more Greek ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry.

Brookfield / Browns Corner is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the Brookfield / Browns Corner neighborhood in Magnolia are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 80.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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 Brookfield / Browns Corner neighborhood, 48.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.0%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 Brookfield / Browns Corner neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Chinese and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the Brookfield / Browns Corner neighborhood in Magnolia, DE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.2%), and residents who report German roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (11.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (8.3%), among others. In addition, 12.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 Brookfield / Browns Corner neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (58.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (60.6%) 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 (30.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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