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Brighton
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city near Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alabama
- County
- Jefferson
- Total
- 1.41 sq mi (3.66 km )
- Land
- 1.41 sq mi (3.66 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 515 ft (157 m)
- Density
- 1,651.9/sq mi (637.81/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Area codes
- 205 & 659
- Fips code
- 01-09400
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Brighton
- Population
- 2337
- Area
- 3.672971
- Elevation
- 155
- Households
- 1263
- Dialing code
- 205
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- inception
- 1892-01-01
- water as percent of area
- 0
- P8168
- Krabi
- water area
- 0
- per capita income
- 17138
- mean age
- 46.5
- Commons category
- Brighton, Alabama
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Brighton is a city near Birmingham, Alabama, United States and located just east of Hueytown. At the 2020 census, the population was 2,337. It is part of the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in 2010 had a population of about 1,128,047, approximately one-quarter of Alabama's population.
It is one of four cities in Jefferson County named after cities in Great Britain. Many of the city's early settlers were of English descent; they named the town after the English tourist and resort city of Brighton, which is located on the English Channel.