Brenham is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Brenham enrolled in college, Brenham has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Brenham spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.68 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Brenham does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Brenham is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.29% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Brenham in 2018 was $27,592, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,368 for a family of four. However, Brenham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Brenham is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Brenham home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brenham residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Brenham also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.13% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Brenham include German, Irish, English, French, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Brenham is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
