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Jobs in Brentwood, California, United States
Known for its agricultural roots within the San Francisco Bay area, Brentwood is a growing residential area that is still increasingly becoming more populated while minimizing areas owned by farms and orchards. Located North-West of California state in East Bay region of San Francisco Bay Area, within Contra Costa County with an area size of 15 Sq miles and 24m elevated from ground.
Brentwood has a population of over 60’000 people, mostly suburban. It has been named after its predecessor Brentwood within County of Essex, England. The humidity in Brentwood usually stays around mid-30° to low-20°C but had held record high of 47°C once. Brentwood has its own police department running since 1948 and 2 of the 4 fire stations of Contra Costa County Fire Protection District. Majority of inhabitants in Brentwood are White with 6.6% being Black and 7.9% being Asian.
Job opportunities in Brentwood
For Public Services; Brentwood has Administrative, Community, Police and, Engineering and Operation. Most of the workforce are found in Schools relatively: Brentwood Union School District and Liberty Union High School District with over 500 employees. They are listed as the top employers of the City with only few commercial stores listed in the top 10 having up to 100 employees at max. Industrial presence is very small compared to its neighbor cities.
Brentwood went through an economic surge of increase from 2000 that stalled in 2009 till it climbed back in a year later when Club Los Meganos opened with athletic club, pool and cabanas, gourmet studio, spa, tennis courts and events center.
By 2013, Residential and Commercial/Retail constructions have seen a higher growth continuing its success since then with real estate sales for higher class people from $500,000 to past $1 million. Two of the Federal research facilities; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories are located right about 25 miles away South of Brentwood among many tech companies that are associated with the city including i-GATE.
