Mountain Brook (Alabama)

Jefferson County

01-51696

Mountain Brook is an American city in Jefferson County, Alabama, and a suburb of Birmingham. According to calculations by the Census Bureau for the year 2005, the city had 20,821 inhabitants.

Geography

Brooks Mountain geographical coordinates are 33 ° 29 'N, 86 ° 44' W33.486944444444 - 86.740555555556 ( 33.486972, -86.740465 ). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 31.7 square kilometers, which accounts for all of it land.

Mountain Brook was originally created in 1929 by Robert Jemison, who conceived it as a spacious living area. The plans of the Boston landscape architect Warren H. Manning saw extensive land before that were on twisty roads, and concentrated the business on three centers, English Village, Mountain Brook Village and Crestline Village.

Demography

At the time of the census of 2000, there were 20,640 people, the city. The population density was 649.9 people per km ². There were 8268 housing units at an average 260.8 per km ². The population of Brooks Mountain consisted of 98.64 % White, 0.31% Black or African Americans, 0.04 % Native Americans, 0.65 % Asians, 0.02 % Pacific Islanders, 0.12 % reported other to belong to races, 0.22 % from two or more races. 0.58 % of the population to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Residents Mountain Brooks distributed to 7998 households out of which 36.7 % were living in children under 18 years. 68.0 % married couples living together, 5.5 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.3% were non-families. 22.7% of households were made ​​up of individuals and someone lived in 9.9 % of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size is 3.05. The city population was spread out with 28.3 % under the, 4.1 % 18 -24- year-old, 25.3 % 25 -44- year-old, 25.8 % 45-64 year olds and 16.4 % under the age of 65 years or more. The average age was 41 years. For every 100 females there were 89.7 males. In the over -18s accounted for 100 women 85.4 males.

The median household income in Mountain Brook was $ 100,483 and the median family income reached the level of 156 647 U.S. dollars. The median income for men was $ 100,000, compared to 39,770 U.S. dollars for women. The per capita income in Mountain Brook was 59 085 U.S. dollars. No one in Mountain Brook lived below the poverty line.

The proportion of people living in homes population is 87.2 %; Mountain Brook in 2000 was 79.5 % of the population 25 years and older with a high degree Cool and 77.3 % with a college degree in the first place in Alabama.

Mountain Brook is a particularly affluent city in the catchment area of ​​Birmingham, and even one of the highest incomes in the entire United States.

City ​​council

Mountain Brooks City Council based on a model with the City Council, Mayor and City Manager. The city council consists of five members popularly elected and decides on most topics. He appoints the Police Chief and the Fire Chief. The mayor is elected every four years. Together with the Mayor, the City Council determines the City Manager. His duties are the questions of general administration.

Education

The town has an independent school system, which consists of four elementary schools ( Mountain Brook Elementary, Cherokee Bend Elementary, Brookwood Forest Elementary and Crestline Elementary School ), the Mountain Brook Junior High School and Mountain Brook High School there.

Sons and daughters Brooks Mountain

Mountain Brook is the hometown of the television series actor Wayne Rogers ( M * A * S * H), Kate Jackson ( Charlie's Angels ) and Courteney Cox (Friends ), Bart Starr, and high school - a graduate Natalee Holloway, who during their holiday disappeared without a trace in Aruba in 2005 and has attracted worldwide attention.