Brighton, Michigan.
Typical home $441,937 (+2.4% in a year), asking rent $2,179 . Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,240 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,334 +2%
- $431,603$441,937 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $90,090 +26%
- $351,847$441,937 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Brighton$2,320
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Brighton, MI rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brighton, Livingston County, Michigan
Brighton is a city of 7,446 people in Livingston County. Half its households earn more than $80,682 a year and half less, against $103,039 across Livingston County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Livingston County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Brighton is a small city where the people are older than in most places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below those across Livingston County, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Brighton are Brighton Area Schools, Purem, which makes oil filters and other automotive parts, and Meijer. The typical commute is moderate, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Mount Brighton, a ski area, sits in or beside town, and Zukey Lake and Huron Meadows Metropark are each a short drive away for time on the water or among trees. For a day out, the University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 3,764households
- 49%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 64,689 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milford Gm Proving Ground weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brighton
- Brighton Area SchoolsSchool district641FTE
- PuremOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing524
- Corrigan OilBulk stations, petroleum469
- MeijerRetail204
- Work Skills Corporation BrightonJob training, vocational rehabilitation or habilitation201
- Caretel Inns BrightonSkilled nursing facilities150
- CSIG Shared Services GroupResidential property managing96
- Resilire Neuro RehabilitationPhysical therapy offices74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,264 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of BrightonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brighton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Livingston County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Brighton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brighton$441,937
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Brighton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 8 days — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Brighton31.38%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Brighton8
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brighton180
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brighton74
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Brighton$441,115
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Brighton100.45%
Zip codes with a Brighton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brighton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Brighton
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48116 | Brighton | 27,289 | $2,382 | $416,702 |
| 48114 | Brighton | 21,588 | — | $481,563 |