The city 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, Brent has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Brent a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Brent does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Brent with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.42% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Brent in 2018 was $18,399, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,596 for a family of four. However, Brent contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Brent also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 44.32% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Brent is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Brent home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brent residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Brent include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Brent is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
