Another notable thing is that Brimley is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
Because of many things, Brimley is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Brimley really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Brimley perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Brimley has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Brimley has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Brimley than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Brimley may be for you.
Brimley is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Brimley is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.84% of adults in Brimley have a college degree.
The per capita income in Brimley in 2022 was $42,593, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $170,372 for a family of four. However, Brimley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Brimley is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Brimley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brimley residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Brimley include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Brimley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.
