Brookside Village, Texas.
Typical home $382,123 (+3.8% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,058 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,925 +4%
- $368,198$382,123 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,003 +21%
- $316,120$382,123 since Sep 2021
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.
- Brookside Village$2,006
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Brookside Village, TX rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brookside Village, Brazoria County, Texas
Brookside Village is a city of 1,548 people in Brazoria County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Brazoria County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookside Village is a small city where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a far higher share of owners than is typical across the country. Typical home values run high for the area, and incomes across Brazoria County sit above those in much of the state. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month and daytime highs still comfortable, while summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, the building trades and shops. Across Brazoria County, some of the biggest employers are Dow, a chemical maker, and school districts such as Alvin ISD and Pearland ISD. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and commutes tend to be fairly long, though a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, the Houston Zoo and the Houston Museum of Natural Science are both a short drive away. Sports fans can reach Reliant Stadium, also a short drive off. For a longer trip, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is a longer drive away and worth planning a full day around.
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- 478households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brazoria County had 124,808 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 77°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houston Hobby Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brazoria County
- DowAcyclic hydrocarbons made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons3,844
- Alvin ISDSchool district3,824FTE
- Pearland ISDSchool district2,554FTE
- Brazosport ISDSchool district1,833FTE
- OlinAlkalies manufacturing1,019
- Angleton ISDSchool district1,011FTE
- Marquis Industrial ServicesScaffold erecting and dismantling997
- BasfOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing991
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 209 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,438 people in all across the county; Brookside Village has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brookside Village’s census tracts, 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 Brazoria County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Brookside Village home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookside Village$382,123
- 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.
- Brookside Village5
Zip codes with a Brookside Village address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookside Village — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.