Standing view · pay · Brentwood
improving, held with established confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2025.
Household income per head in Brentwood was £38,454 in 2024, a favourable movement. Hourly pay in 2024 was £21.17 at the median. In 2025 it was £13.79 at the 10th percentile, £17.13 at the 25th and £22.95 at the median on one measure, and £12.6 at the 10th percentile, £13.82 at the 25th and £27.76 at the 75th on the other. The median stood higher in 2025 than in 2024.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Brentwood. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Household income per head | 2024 | improving |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Median | 2024 | — |
| 10 percentile | 2025 | — |
| 25 percentile | 2025 | — |
| Median | 2025 | — |
| 10 percentile | 2025 | — |
| 25 percentile | 2025 | — |
| 75 percentile | 2025 | — |