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The median home value in Brighton, MI is $447,662 as of 2026-07-31, up 2.14% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$447,662
Year-over-Year
+2.14%
Population
8,140
Brighton ranks #20 of 149 Michigan cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 70.7% above the state's city median of $262,319. It sits in Livingston County, where the county-wide median is $407,859.
Median household income in Brighton is $80,682, so the typical home value is about 5.5× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Brighton police recorded a violent crime rate of 111 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,228 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Brighton, that value is $447,662. That's up 2.14% from a year earlier. It is about 70.7% above the typical Michigan city tracked here.
Homes in Brighton are more expensive than Livingston County as a whole, where the median is $407,859 — a difference of about 9.8%.
Median household income here is $80,682, so the typical home value is about 5.5× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Brighton police reported 111 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 8,140. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.