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SheetMO-BRENTWOOD-MO · Brentwood, MO 8,151 pop · income 68th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Brentwood
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Brentwood on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Berkeley · lowest
40,654
Berkeley · lowest
40,654 median HH income
23.8% of the leader · rank #1
Clawson · near
86,630
Clawson · near
86,630 median HH income
50.7% of the leader · rank #2
Round Lake Be… · near
86,632
Round Lake Be… · near
86,632 median HH income
50.7% of the leader · rank #3
Plumwood · near
86,638
Plumwood · near
86,638 median HH income
50.7% of the leader · rank #4
Brentwood · this city
86,641
Brentwood · this city
86,641 median HH income
50.7% of the leader · rank #5
Dunlap · near
86,641
Dunlap · near
86,641 median HH income
50.7% of the leader · rank #6
Parkville · highest
170,794
Parkville · highest
170,794 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Brentwood on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 8,151.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Brentwood - the verdict
Nationally, Brentwood sits in the 68th percentile for household income and the 7th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
68th
percentile, household income
61st
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
7th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Brentwood, MO
Brentwood is a small town in Missouri, home to 8,151 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Brentwood households earn a median of $86,641 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 2.0%. Brentwood's housing stock carries a median value of $276,100, and the median resident age is 37.7 years. About 73.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 71.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 4 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 33% from five years earlier. Brentwood's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 4039.4 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Missouri run below the national norm: the state registers 90.8 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $972 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Missouri run around $219, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 50.6 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Brentwood's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from housing and income to comparison shortlist to population change to reported crime to schools and households to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Brentwood, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Brentwood?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Brentwood?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Missouri, the closest population matches are Berkeley (8,149 residents, $40,654 income); Maplewood (8,154 residents, $65,510 income); Carl Junction (8,257 residents, $77,855 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ketchikan, AK (8,151 residents); Tiverton, RI (8,151 residents); Johnstown, NY (8,153 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Is Brentwood growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -140 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 4 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Brentwood?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 4039.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 77% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Brentwood?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 73.0% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
2.0%
Bachelor's degree+
73.0%
Matched public schools
5
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Brentwood?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Drive alone
73.4%
Work from home
16.6%
Public transit
2.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,760 workers age 16+.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share A+
73.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
2.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living A-
90.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Household income B-
$86,641
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime C
150 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Brentwood profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 99/100 (A+) · 73.0%
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 2.0%
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Household income: 66/100 (B-) · $86,641
Violent crime: 58/100 (C) · 150 /100k
Where Brentwood sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Brentwood's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Brentwood highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Brentwood, MO (this city): home $276,100, crime 4,039/100k
Ketchikan, AK : home $340,300, crime 2,398/100k
Tiverton, RI : home $357,700, crime 748/100k
Camp Hill, PA : home $290,300, crime 1,113/100k
Paris, IL : home $71,200, crime 2,033/100k
Berkeley, MO : home $80,000, crime 9,009/100k
Maplewood, MO : home $231,500, crime 7,452/100k
Carl Junction, MO : home $206,400, crime 912/100k
Parkville, MO : home $557,100, crime 853/100k
Nevada, MO : home $100,600, crime 5,316/100k
Dexter, MO : home $132,700, crime 3,106/100k
How does Brentwood compare to other US cities?
Here's how Brentwood stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income68% higher than other cities
Home value61% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety7% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Missouri alone, Brentwood ranks #200 of 234 Missouri cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Brentwood against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Missouri only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Missouri-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Brentwood near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Brentwood ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Brentwood only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#121 of 842
86th percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#78 of 833
91st percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#742 of 875
15th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#14 of 875
98th percentile in Missouri
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Missouri only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
68th percentile nationally for median household income · 7th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Brentwood's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Brentwood's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Brentwood's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$276,10039th percentilemore affordable than 39% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Brentwood's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,629 of 15,516
More affordable than 51% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,313 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.2×, Brentwood sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,629 of 15,516 and #6,313 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$86,641Brentwood, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Brentwood, MO median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Brentwood, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)73.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)71.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,151
Median Income
$86,641
Median Home Value
$276,100
Median Age
37.7
Poverty Rate
2.0%
Labor force participation
71.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
73.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4039.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
149.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3889.8
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Brentwood's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,219 residents
2021
8,167 residents
2022
8,111 residents
2023
8,095 residents
2024
8,099 residents
2025
8,079 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
4
housing units authorized
Single-Family
4
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
6
6
0
$1.6M
2020
5
5
0
$1.8M
2021
13
13
0
$6.5M
2022
18
16
2
$7.2M
2023
7
7
0
$3.3M
2024
4
4
0
$1.7M
Permit volume decreased 33% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
73.4%
Carpool
6.0%
Public Transit
2.1%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
16.6%
Other
0.6%
Based on 4,760 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Missouri statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $219
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Missouri at $219 (electricity about $105 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are Missouri statewide averages, not a meter reading for Brentwood. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Missouri's BEA cost-of-living index is 90.8 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Brentwood is $972/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Missouri statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 50.6 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Missouri statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Brentwood sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Brentwood compares to similar-size Missouri cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.