Brentwood is a larger medium-sized town located in the state of New York. With a population of 62,387 people and 12 associated neighborhoods, Brentwood is the 15th largest community in New York. Housing costs in Brentwood are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in New York.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Brentwood is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 0.00% of the Brentwood workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Brentwood is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brentwood who work in office and administrative support (0.00%), sales jobs (0.00%), and personal care services (0.00%). The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Brentwood has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Brentwood a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 0.00 minutes getting to work every day. The town of Brentwood is a decent size, but despite this, it doesn't have a viable public transit system that people can use to get to work.Brentwood ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.00% of people over 25 have a college degree.Brentwood is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Brentwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brentwood residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Brentwood include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian. The most common language spoken in Brentwood is French Creole. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Urdu.
