Brookside vs Edgewater

A side-by-side comparison of Brookside and Edgewater: population, income, housing, and more.

Brookside and Edgewater are places in Alabama. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Brookside has the higher population (1,200 vs 694 in Edgewater). Edgewater has the higher median household income ($129,542 vs $43,750 in Brookside). Since 2019, Brookside's population has grown faster (-1.4% vs -6.1%).

Population, income & housing

	Brookside	Edgewater
Population	1,200	694
Median age	45.6 yrs	52.6 yrs
Median household income	$43,750	$129,542
Median home value	$108,700	—
Housing units	549	420
Homeownership rate	65.8%	85.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher	11.0%	20.7%
Unemployment rate	5.2%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Brookside	Edgewater
Population	1,217 → 1,200 (-1.4%)	739 → 694 (-6.1%)
Median household income	$38,482 → $43,750 (+13.7%)	$37,159 → $129,542 (+248.6%)
Median home value	$90,000 → $108,700 (+20.8%)	$83,700 → $47,600 (-43.1%)
Median gross rent	$651 → $781 (+20.0%)	$845 → $1,017 (+20.4%)

Brookside

Population

1,2171,200

Median household income

$38,482$43,750

Median home value

$90,000$108,700

Median gross rent

$651$781

Edgewater

Population

739694

Median household income

$37,159$129,542

Median home value

$83,700$47,600

Median gross rent

$845$1,017

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Brookside	Edgewater
Under 5	1.9%	0.0%
5 to 17	12.5%	8.2%
18 to 24	13.7%	0.4%
25 to 34	13.8%	0.0%
35 to 44	5.6%	8.5%
45 to 54	19.8%	60.8%
55 to 64	18.3%	8.8%
65 to 74	9.1%	12.2%
75 and over	5.4%	1.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Brookside	Edgewater
White (non-Hispanic)	57.7%	12.2%
Black or African American	41.7%	84.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.7%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	3.7%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Brookside	Edgewater
No high school diploma	15.4%	1.3%
High school graduate	47.5%	37.5%
Some college or associate's	26.1%	40.5%
Bachelor's degree	9.6%	14.8%
Graduate or professional degree	1.4%	5.8%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Brookside	Edgewater
Drove alone	89.8%	90.7%
Carpooled	4.7%	4.4%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	2.7%
Worked from home	4.0%	2.2%
Other means	1.5%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Brookside	Edgewater
1-unit, detached	68.3%	97.6%
1-unit, attached	2.2%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	22.6%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	6.9%	2.4%

Poverty & households

	Brookside	Edgewater
Poverty rate	28.0%	9.7%
Average household size	2.31	2.07
Mean commute (minutes)	28	24
Median year structure built	1971	1954