Despite the fact that it is a small village, Brewster has quite a few people who take public transportation – mostly the train - for their daily commute to work. This helps to fill a real need in the village for affordable transportation.
The citizens of Brewster are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.32% of adults in Brewster having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Brewster in 2022 was $32,537, which is lower middle income relative to New York, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $130,148 for a family of four. However, Brewster contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Brewster is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Brewster home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Brewster, accounting for 60.89% of the village’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Brewster residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Brewster include Italian, Irish, German, English, and European.
Brewster also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 40.02%.
The most common language spoken in Brewster is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Other Indo-European.
