Brentwood vs Pleasant Hills

A side-by-side comparison of Brentwood and Pleasant Hills: population, income, housing, and more.

Brentwood and Pleasant Hills are places in Pennsylvania. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Brentwood has the higher population (9,927 vs 8,418 in Pleasant Hills). Pleasant Hills has the higher median household income ($97,177 vs $60,432 in Brentwood). Pleasant Hills has the higher median home value ($235,500 vs $143,700 in Brentwood).

Population, income & housing

	Brentwood	Pleasant Hills
Population	9,927	8,418
Median age	37.2 yrs	45.7 yrs
Median household income	$60,432	$97,177
Median home value	$143,700	$235,500
Median gross rent	$822	$1,224
Housing units	4,789	3,776
Homeownership rate	62.6%	80.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	36.4%	40.2%
Unemployment rate	2.2%	5.1%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Brentwood	Pleasant Hills
Population	9,386 → 9,927 (+5.8%)	8,113 → 8,418 (+3.8%)
Median household income	$58,303 → $60,432 (+3.7%)	$76,480 → $97,177 (+27.1%)
Median home value	$98,500 → $143,700 (+45.9%)	$166,900 → $235,500 (+41.1%)
Median gross rent	$764 → $822 (+7.6%)	$995 → $1,224 (+23.0%)

Brentwood

Population

9,3869,927

Median household income

$58,303$60,432

Median home value

$98,500$143,700

Median gross rent

$764$822

Pleasant Hills

Population

8,1138,418

Median household income

$76,480$97,177

Median home value

$166,900$235,500

Median gross rent

$995$1,224

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Brentwood	Pleasant Hills
Under 5	8.2%	4.5%
5 to 17	17.9%	15.0%
18 to 24	4.8%	6.5%
25 to 34	15.2%	10.7%
35 to 44	17.3%	12.4%
45 to 54	9.8%	15.2%
55 to 64	10.0%	13.5%
65 to 74	9.9%	11.5%
75 and over	7.0%	10.8%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Brentwood	Pleasant Hills
White (non-Hispanic)	82.2%	85.4%
Black or African American	7.7%	5.9%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.2%
Asian	1.6%	3.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.8%	0.5%
Two or more races	7.2%	3.9%
Hispanic or Latino	0.6%	1.1%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Brentwood	Pleasant Hills
No high school diploma	3.9%	5.0%
High school graduate	25.5%	23.6%
Some college or associate's	34.2%	31.2%
Bachelor's degree	23.0%	23.8%
Graduate or professional degree	13.4%	16.4%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Brentwood	Pleasant Hills
Drove alone	60.4%	63.1%
Carpooled	6.6%	14.2%
Public transit	12.3%	2.4%
Walked	2.3%	0.5%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	18.5%	19.4%
Other means	0.0%	0.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Brentwood	Pleasant Hills
1-unit, detached	61.3%	79.7%
1-unit, attached	9.4%	2.2%
2 to 4 units	11.1%	5.2%
5 to 19 units	5.8%	1.9%
20 or more units	12.4%	11.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Brentwood	Pleasant Hills
Poverty rate	17.5%	3.0%
Average household size	2.21	2.39
Mean commute (minutes)	31	26
Median year structure built	1951	1957