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Brentwood, NY
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Living in Brentwood



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.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Brentwood has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Brentwood has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Brentwood than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Brentwood may be for you.

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.

Even though Brentwood is not a small town, it doesn't have a public transportation system that anybody uses for their daily commute to work.

The population of Brentwood has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

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.