Brookesmith, Texas.
Typical home $410,875 (+2.7% in a year). Brownwood, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$774 (+56%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $10,656 +3%
- $400,219$410,875 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Brookesmith$2,157
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Brookesmith, TX rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brookesmith, Brown County, Texas
The Census does not count Brookesmith on its own, so the figures here are Brown County's. Half the county's households earn more than $57,470 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 68% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Brown County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Brown County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Brookesmith sits in Brown County in central Texas, where across the county most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, summers are very hot, and snow is rare, though a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, retail shops and the building trades. Across Brown County, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs has dipped slightly over the past year. Only a minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and a notable share of people live below the poverty line.
Things to do. Lake Brownwood State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Lake Brownwood reservoir is also a longer drive away for those who enjoy the water. The Old McCulloch County Jail, a museum a longer drive away, offers a look at local history.
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- 14,972households
- 41.8median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Brown County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brown County had 15,574 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brownwood 2ENE weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brown County
- 3M Company540
- Brownwood ISDSchool district517FTE
- KohlerBathtubs, plastics, manufacturing506
- Superior EssexStrip, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants422
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters374
- Hendrick Medical Center BrownwoodGeneral hospital333FTE
- Howard Payne UniversityUniversity or college264
- United SupermarketsSupermarket183
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,101 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Brown County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Brown County and the Brownwood, TX metro.
Brookesmith home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookesmith$410,875
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brookesmith7
Zip codes with a Brookesmith address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookesmith — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.