Brighton, Michigan

Brighton population, 2020 to 2024

Brighton added 472 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.3%. In the latest year it moved by -65. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 7th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Brighton is 65% of it.

Brighton covers 3.51 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 2,260 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Brighton is close to the typical town.

What county Brighton is in

All of Brighton's residents live in Livingston County, which had 196,976 residents in 2024. Brighton holds 4.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brighton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Brighton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48116. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Brighton is

The Census internal point of Brighton is at 42.529700, -83.784500. Lansing, the capital, is 41.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is South Lyon, MI (12,219 people), 8.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Ann Arbor, MI, 17.7 miles away.

Daylight in Brighton

At 42.53° N, Brighton gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Brighton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is South Lyon, 8.2 miles away, with 12,219 people.