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Shadybrook, Texas.

A community in Cherokee County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Cherokee County’s.

Living in Shadybrook, Cherokee County, Texas

Shadybrook, in Cherokee County, had 2,400 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Cherokee County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cherokee County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 2,400 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Shadybrook for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 4.7% Cherokee County, August 2026; 4.7% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Shadybrook for the Census survey to measure.
  • 1,015households
  • 20%of adults have a degree
  • 32 mintypical commute

What people in Cherokee County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care25%
  • Manufacturing13%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Building trades9%
  • Professional and business services8%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment6%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cherokee County had 14,947 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 58° and 34°; warmest in August, 94° and 70° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 58° 34° F M A M J J A 94° 70° S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 58° and 34°; warmest in August, 94° and 70° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 58° 34° F M A M J J A 94° 70° S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 48 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jacksonville weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Cherokee County

  1. Helmerich & Payne, Inc.Drilling oil and gas wells1,381
  2. Rusk State HospitalPsychiatric hospital942FTE
  3. Jacksonville ISDSchool district829FTE
  4. Altman Specialty PlantsFlorist's supplies merchant wholesalers437
  5. Bullard ISDSchool district435FTE
  6. Allied Truss Texas JacksonvilleTrusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing425
  7. Rusk ISDSchool district344FTE
  8. Beall SGeneral warehousing and storage342

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 46 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,085 people in all across the county; Shadybrook has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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

  1. Strong windRelatively high
  2. Cold wavesRelatively high
  3. LightningRelatively high
  4. Ice stormsRelatively moderate
  5. WildfireRelatively moderate
  6. Heat wavesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shadybrook’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 Cherokee County.