What is the population of Brown City city?

Brown City city has 1,211 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #403 of 745 in Michigan.

What is the median household income in Brown City city?

Median household income in Brown City city is $60,357 a year, 23.1% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Brown City city?

Median gross rent is $805 a month and the median home value is $121,400, so rent absorbs about 16% of median household income.

Is Brown City city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Brown City city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Brown City, MI population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Brown City, Michigan (Brown City, MI — Census place “Brown City city”) is 1,211 residents, ranking #403 of 745 places in Michigan. Median household income is $60,357, the median home is worth $121,400 and median gross rent runs $805 a month. Looking for the Brown City Michigan ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Brown City, MI: 48416.

Population: 1,211Brown City city residents
Median household income: $60,357Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $121,400Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $805Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 41.8 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 69.1%Owner-occupied households

Brown City ZIP codes (Michigan)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Brown City.

The Brown City MI ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

48416

What the numbers mean in Brown City city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Brown City city median would spend about 16% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.0× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 17% of residents and 69.1% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Brown City city, MI in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Brown City city is a small town in Michigan, with 1,211 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #403 of 745 ranked by population — larger than 45% of them. The median age here is 41.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Brown City city earn a median of $60,357 a year, 23.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $61,715 median for the 438 Michigan cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 17% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Brown City city is valued at $121,400, 60% below the national figure and 27% below the $166,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $805 a month, 42.7% below the national figure, or roughly $9,660 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16% 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 2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 69.1% 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.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.

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What is the population of Brown City city?: Brown City city has 1,211 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #403 of 745 in Michigan.
What is the median household income in Brown City city?: Median household income in Brown City city is $60,357 a year, 23.1% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Brown City city?: Median gross rent is $805 a month and the median home value is $121,400, so rent absorbs about 16% of median household income.
Is Brown City city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Brown City city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Brown City city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.