Birmingham, MI population, income and ZIP codes

Birmingham city is a mid-size town in Michigan, with 21,612 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #55 of 745 ranked by population — larger than 92% of them. The median age here is 41.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Birmingham city earn a median of $153,125 a year, 95% above the national figure of $78,538 and 148% above the $61,715 median for the 438 Michigan cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 4.9% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Birmingham city is valued at $712,700, 134.9% above the national figure and 329% above the $166,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,891 a month, 34.5% above the national figure, or roughly $22,692 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 76.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.