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. One of the benefits of Brentwood is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 0.00 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Brentwood is a decent-sized town, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the town has no real transit system.In terms of college education, Brentwood ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced 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.
