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Brent city, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Brent city is a Census city of 4,010 people across 8.80 square miles of land, in Bibb County. Median household income is $22,660, 53.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $350,000.
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Brent
What Brent is
- Census place typecity
- Land area8.8 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land456
- County holding the largest share of its areaBibb County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brent
How many people live in Brent
- Population4,010
- Median age38.2
- Population under 18686 plus or minus 204
- Share under 1817.1 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Population 65 and over497 plus or minus 167
- Share 65 and over12.4 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Households1,064
- Family households709 plus or minus 153
- Share of households that are families66.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brent
Income and work in Brent
- Median household income$22,660
- Per capita income$16,638 plus or minus $3,665
- Civilian labor force763 plus or minus 209
- Employed560 plus or minus 208
- Unemployed203 plus or minus 123
- Unemployment rate26.6 percent plus or minus 14.4
- Adults 25 and over3,051
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher70.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.5 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.1 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brent
Housing in Brent
- Housing units1,178
- Occupied units1,064
- Vacant units114 plus or minus 75
- Vacancy rate9.7 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Owner occupied566 plus or minus 131
- Renter occupied498 plus or minus 144
- Ownership rate53.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$146,500 plus or minus $31,400
- Median gross rent, monthly$537 plus or minus $137
- Annual rent as a share of median income28.4 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Single family units622 plus or minus 148
- Share single family52.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more413 plus or minus 166
- Share in buildings of two or more35.1 percent plus or minus 13.1
- Mobile homes143 plus or minus 83
- Median year structure built1978
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brent
How Brent gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute517 plus or minus 197
- Commuting under 15 minutes136 plus or minus 65
- Share commuting under 15 minutes26.3 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more309 plus or minus 125
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more59.8 percent
- Drove alone86.6 percent
- Carpooled4.1 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Public transport1.6 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home7.7 percent plus or minus 6.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brent
SBA 7(a) lending to Brent borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$350,000
- Average approval$350,000
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$350,000
- Largest approval$350,000
- Jobs supported32
- Jobs per approval32.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Bibb County, not Brent
Bibb County context, not Brent figures
These are Bibb County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Brent measurements.
- Establishments in Bibb County313
- Employment at those establishments, Bibb County4,159
- Covered employment, Bibb County4,828
- Average annual pay, Bibb County$53,062
- Average weekly wage, Bibb County$1,020
- Housing units permitted, Bibb County16
- Of those, single family, Bibb County16
- County product, 2024, Bibb County$642,360,000
- County product change over the prior year, Bibb County3.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Bibb County$46,183
Every figure in this section is published for Bibb County as a whole and is not a measurement of Brent. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Brent questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Brent, Alabama?
4,010, in 1,064 households. Brent city covers 8.80 square miles of land, which is 456 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Brent in?
Bibb County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Brent?
$22,660. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $146,500. Median gross rent is $537 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Brent businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $350,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $350,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Brent, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Brent borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Brent. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Brent figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Bibb County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Brent.
Is zoning published for Brent?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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