Brownsville, Florida

Brownsville (also known as Brown Sub) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) that is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. As of the 2020 US census, the population was 16,583,

By the mid-1960s, Brownsville was a thriving community for black professionals. However, the wake of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 that outlawed restrictive covenants, and riots in 1968 and 1980 brought about the black flight of middle and upper-class families from the community. Brownsville experienced continued population loss from 1970 until 2000, as part of a greater suburbanization trend among the U.S. upwardly-mobile middle class. Between 2000 and 2010, Brownsville gained population for the first time in over 40 years, rising to 15,313 residents.

Construction began on a transit-oriented development, "Brownsville Transit Village", in 2010, on the site of the Brownsville Metrorail station parking lot. The project cost $100 million to build, and is composed of 467 units in five high-rise residential towers with ground-floor retail centered around the Brownsville Metro station. The project was partially funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and is one of the largest transit-oriented and affordable housing projects in Miami.

Geography

Brownsville is located northwest of downtown Miami. It is bordered to the east and southeast by the city of Miami, to the north by unincorporated Gladeview, to the west by the city of Hialeah, and to the south by unincorporated Miami-Dade County. Interstate 195 (Airport Expressway) forms the southern border of the community.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the Brownsville CDP has a total area of , all of it land.

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Racial and ethnic composition

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|+Brownsville CDP, Florida – Racial and ethnic composition

!Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic)

!Pop 2000

!Pop 2010

!style="background-color: #ffffb3;" |Pop 2020

!% 2000

!% 2010

!style="background-color: #ffffb3;" |% 2020

|White alone (NH)

|102

|181

|style='background: #ffffe6; |362

|0.71%

|1.18%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.18%

|Black or African American alone (NH)

|12,974

|11,081

|style='background: #ffffe6; |8,448

|90.14%

|72.36%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |50.94%

|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)

|21

|13

|style='background: #ffffe6; |15

|0.15%

|0.08%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.09%

|Asian alone (NH)

|style='background: #ffffe6; |16

|0.02%

|0.05%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.10%

|Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)

|style='background: #ffffe6; |2

|0.01%

|0.00%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.01%

|Other race alone (NH)

|10

|style='background: #ffffe6; |45

|0.03%

|0.07%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.27%

|Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)

|103

|82

|style='background: #ffffe6; |154

|0.72%

|0.54%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.93%

|Hispanic or Latino (any race)

|1,183

|3,939

|style='background: #ffffe6; |7,541

|8.22%

|25.72%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |45.47%

|Total

|14,393

|15,313

|style='background: #ffffe6; |16,583

|100.00%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%

2020 census

As of the 2020 census, Brownsville had a population of 16,583. The median age was 36.8 years. 24.9% of residents were under the age of 18 and 14.2% were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 92.2 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 89.5 males age 18 and over.

100.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 0.0% lived in rural areas.

There were 5,849 households in Brownsville, of which 34.2% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 24.3% were married-couple households, 23.9% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 43.9% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 29.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

2010 census

As of the 2010 census, there were 15,313 people, 4,476 households, and 2,744 families residing in the CDP.

2000 census

As of the census

Sites

Brownsville is home to Georgette's Tea Room House and the Seventh-day Adventist Church that owns it.

Education

Miami-Dade County Public Schools operates area public schools.

Elementary schools

Lorah Park Elementary School
Kelsey L. Pharr Elementary School
Olinda Elementary School
Earlington Heights Elementary School
Charles Drew Elementary School

Middle schools

Brownsville Middle School
Charles Drew Middle School
Miami Springs Middle School
Georgia Jones-Ayers Middle School

High schools

Miami Northwestern Senior High School
Miami Jackson Senior High School
Miami Springs Senior High School

Libraries

Miami-Dade Public Library operates area public libraries:

Model City Library

Transportation

Brownsville is served by Miami-Dade Transit along major thoroughfares via Metrobus, and by the Miami Metrorail, Tri-Rail, and Amtrak at:

Metrorail:

Brownsville (North 54th Street and West 27th Avenue)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza (North 62nd Street and West 27th Avenue)

Tri-Rail:

Tri-Rail/Metrorail Transfer (North 79th Street and West 37th Avenue)
Hialeah Market (North 41st Street and NW 38th Avenue)

Amtrak:

Amtrak-Miami: Silver Star and Silver Meteor service, (North 79th Street and West 37th Avenue)