Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Methodology: NeighborhoodScout uses over 600 characteristics to build a neighborhood profile… Read more about Scout's Real Estate Data
With 8,164 people, 4,177 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $406,938, Brentwood real estate is some of the most expensive in Missouri, although Brentwood home values aren't among America's most expensive.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Brentwood, accounting for 56.68% of the city's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Brentwood include large apartment complexes or high rise apartments ( 18.47%), duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 17.60%), and a few row houses and other attached homes ( 6.77%).
Dwellings in Brentwood tend to be quite small (one, two, or no bedrooms) and owner occupied. In fact, 68.45% of the homes in Brentwood have two or fewer bedrooms.
At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home triumphant and, with the help of the GI Bill, built homes by the millions on the edges of America's cities. These homes were predominantly capes and ranches, modest in size, but built to house a growing middle-class as the 20th century became the American century. Brentwood's housing was primarily built during this period, from the '40s through the '60s. A full 55.15% of the city's housing hails from this era. Other housing ages represented in Brentwood include homes built before 1939 ( 16.58%) and housing constructed between 1970-1999 ( 15.53%). There's also some housing in Brentwood built between 2000 and later ( 12.74%).
Real estate appreciation rates in Brentwood's have tracked to near the national average over the last then years, with the annual appreciation rate averaging 5.10% during the period.
Over the last year, Brentwood appreciation rates have trailed the rest of the nation. In the last twelve months, Brentwood's appreciation rate has been 7.79%, which is lower than appreciation rates in most communities in America. In the latest quarter, NeighborhoodScout's data show that house appreciation rates in Brentwood were at -1.36%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of -5.35%.
Notably, Brentwood's appreciation rate in the latest quarter is one of the lowest in America.
Relative to Missouri, our data show that Brentwood's latest annual appreciation rate is lower than 90% of the other cities and towns in Missouri.
$406,938
for Missouri
for nation
4,177
$1,785 / per month