Mountain Brook is a medium-sized city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 20,983 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Mountain Brook is the 25th largest community in Alabama.

Mountain Brook is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 96.80% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Mountain Brook is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mountain Brook who work in sales jobs (20.59%), management occupations (19.95%), and healthcare (12.39%).

Of important note, Mountain Brook is also a city of artists. Mountain Brook has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Mountain Brook's character.

Mountain Brook, while not large, also appears to be attractive to some younger, educated professionals, who help shape the character of the city.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Mountain Brook is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Mountain Brook is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Mountain Brook a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Mountain Brook has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Mountain Brook's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One of the benefits of Mountain Brook is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.48 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.

For most residents of Mountain Brook, getting to work requires a car. In fact, 98.7% of people in Mountain Brook drive alone to work on most days, making Mountain Brook a very car-oriented city. In general, car-oriented communities tend to emphasize streets, highways, and ease of parking, often to the detriment of walkability. Strip centers are a feature of Mountain Brook's landscape.

Being a small city, Mountain Brook does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Mountain Brook Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Mountain Brook is a pretty powerful place. 77.33% of the adults in Mountain Brook have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Mountain Brook in 2000 was $59,085, which is wealthy relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $236,340 for a family of four. However, Mountain Brook contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Mountain Brook home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Mountain Brook is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Mountain Brook include English, German, Irish, Scotch-Irish, Scottish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Mountain Brook is English.