BrentFL
A town of 23,813, settled in 1890.
Is Brent a good place to live?
Brent gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $160K for a typical one, or 2.1 years of the Pensacola metro’s $76K median household income. It grades C− overall, 468th among Florida's 634 graded towns. The low prices come with trade-offs. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 83% of U.S. communities, with hurricanes at the top, and its public schools trail 83% of Florida towns on state tests and graduation. On the plus side, it is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 96% of U.S. towns. Brent’s median age is 25.6 years, against 42.5 years in Florida’s towns and 40.5 years across U.S. towns.
What makes Brent stand out
Where Brent beats most towns.
Every workday, about 12,375 people come to Brent for work
Where Brent’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Brent grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Florida), ordered by how far Brent is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for walkability (better than 96% of comparable towns) to D for hazard risk (better than 11%), so the C− overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Fort Pickens and 13 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Brent. Close and well known come first.
10 mi LandmarkFort Pickens
13 mi Ancient siteUSS Massachusetts
9 mi MuseumNational Naval Aviation Museum
8 mi National SeashoreGulf Islands National Seashore7.6M visitors a year
9 mi LandmarkFort Barrancas19 mi BeachOno IslandPhoto credits
Fort Pickens: Notneb82, CC BY-SA 3.0 · USS Massachusetts: Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain · National Naval Aviation Museum: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Gulf Islands National Seashore: National Park Service, Public domain · Fort Barrancas: National Park Service, Public domain
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Moving to Brent: who provides what
Brent is unincorporated, so Escambia County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 17, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Brent.
Brent is shaped by its college students, draws workers from Pensacola and beyond and is healthier than towns with similar incomes.
About one in eight working residents works right in Brent
13,430 jobs are based in Brent, 1.7 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here fell from 18,655 in 2013 to 13,430.
23% of Brent workers do their job from home. Just 13% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. Since 2013, Brent has lost 5,225 jobs, to 13,430 in 2023. Also worth knowing: the town’s typical journey to work stands at 19 minutes.
| Brent | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 23% | 11% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 23% | 14% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 19 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $49,000 | $73,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Brent earns a C− for schools
The largest public high school is West Florida High School/Technical, with 1,322 students. Two of its 6 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed. The Escambia school district runs its public schools.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Barge Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 542 | A+ |
| West Florida High School/TechnicalLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,322 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within FL on state tests and graduation
Natural hazards: very high risk in Brent, mostly hurricanes
Flood insurance has paid out on 99 claims in Brent since 1978. 74% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from hurricanes, followed by inland flooding at 15%.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
More of Brent’s adults report frequent mental distress than in the typical Florida or U.S. town
Against the 5,471 U.S. towns with household incomes like Brent’s, it is healthier than 58%, so its C− isn’t only a matter of income.
For adults in Brent, the share who get no exercise outside work is 29%. Only 7 of the 636 Florida towns we compare have a higher share of adults who have been diagnosed with depression than Brent. Nearly a quarter of adults in Brent worry about having enough food; 75% had a checkup this year. Of 31 CDC measures, Brent beats the Florida average on 4 and trails it on 14.
| Brent | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 16% | 17% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 15% | 14% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 75% | 79% | 79% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 20% | 19% |
| What stands out | Brent | FL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6% | 9.1% |
| Fewer adults with high cholesterol | 33.2% | 39% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 20.2% | 12.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The climate in Brent brings mild winters and hot summers
The Pensacola Forest Sherman Nas weather station, 9 miles away, records that the frost-free season runs about 277 days: longer than most of the country, but shorter than 77% of Florida places with climate records. The Pensacola Forest Sherman Nas weather station, 9 miles away, records that about 56 days a year reach 90°: more than most of the country, but fewer than 85% of Florida places with climate records.
For Brent, the July high is 91°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
1.3% of Brent is conserved land
The concentration of trails in Brent is 0.1 miles per square mile. Across 5 parks and preserves: 0.7 miles of trail. Parks and preserves locally: 5, covering 14 acres.
| Brent | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.3% | 3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Oakfield Acres Park | — | 6 |
| 2. Eagle Field | — | 2 |
| 3. Montclair Park | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A home in Brent sells for about $200K at the median
At 2.1 years of the Pensacola metro’s $76K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 97% of Florida towns; that ratio is one input to its B for cost of living. The median property tax bill is $908, against $2,730 across Florida, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
In Brent, 56% of households own their home. For Brent, the median rent is $1,161 a month. A home in Brent typically sold within 69 days of listing.
| Brent | Florida towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 56% | 72% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,161 a month | $1,647 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Brent
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Brent
College town 25 of every 100 Brent residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Florida.
About Brent
Census-designated place in Florida, United States
Brent is a census-designated place (CDP) in Escambia County, Florida, United States. It is considered to be a community within Pensacola. The population was 23,447 at the 2020 census, up from 21,804 at the 2010 census. It is a principal area of the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community is named after Francis Celestino Brent, who played an integral role in the development of Pensacola.
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- Area
- 11 sq mi
- Elevation
- 112 ft
- Area code
- 850
Brent’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Brent.
| Town | FL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brent | #468 | C− | B | — | C− | C− |
| Pensacola | #333 | C | C | B+ | C− | B |
| West Pensacola | #540 | D | B+ | — | C− | D− |
| Bellview | #551 | D | B− | — | C− | C |
| Ferry Pass | #473 | C− | C | — | C− | B |
| Goulding | #546 | D | B+ | — | C− | D− |
| Ensley | #556 | D | C+ | — | C− | C |
Brent, West Pensacola, Bellview, Ferry Pass, Goulding and Ensley report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Brent with a neighbor →
Questions about Brent
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Brent, FL a good place to live?
Brent grades C− overall, better than 18% of U.S. towns and #468 of 634 in Florida. It grades C− for health and C− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Brent, FL expensive?
The typical home is worth about $160,000, 57% below the Florida typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.