Brady TownshipMI
A town of 2,138, settled in 1891.
Is Brady Township a good place to live?
The best of Brady Township’s subject grades are a B+ for history and schools; the weakest is a D− for walkability. On the outdoors, just 73 of Michigan’s 1,279 towns do worse. Brady Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
96% of working residents leave Brady Township for work
Where Brady Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
How Brady Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Brady Township is from typical.
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Moving to Brady Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Brady Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Brady Township.
Residents of Brady Township are less healthy than 75% of U.S. towns
Brady Township: 23% of adults say their health is fair or poor, above both the Michigan town median (19%) and the median of U.S. towns (19%). In Brady Township, 17% of adults report frequent physical distress. Among adults in the town, 40% have high blood pressure and 30% get no exercise outside work.
| Brady Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 36% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 25% | 25% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 15% | 14% |
| What stands out | Brady Township | MI |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 14.5% | 10.2% |
| More adults with COPD | 10.4% | 8.1% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.5% | 7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Most of Brady Township’s workers commute out: the town has 0.2 jobs for each of them
For Brady Township, the typical household income is $67,000. Commuting out is the norm in the town: 4% of working residents work locally. Jobs in Brady Township grew by 51 from 2011 to 2021, reaching 177. Also worth knowing: its mean commuting time stands at 29 minutes, against 25 minutes in Michigan’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns.
| Brady Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $67,000 | $77,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 4% | 5.9% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 7.5% | 8.9% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
Expect four seasons and pleasant summers in Brady Township
The range runs from 16° on a January night to 83° on a July afternoon, with about 38 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Top of a moderate hazard risk in Brady Township: inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 60% of U.S. communities. 48% of Brady Township’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by cold waves at 19%.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Protected land: 1.6% of Brady Township
Brady Township’s concentration of trails stands at 0.1 miles per square mile. 3.2 miles of trail.
| Brady Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.6% | 4.4% | 4.3% |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Brady Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Brady Township
About 3 of every 100 Brady Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Michigan.
About Brady Township
Civil township in Michigan, United States
Brady Township is a civil township of Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the township population was 2,142.
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- Area
- 37 sq mi
- Elevation
- 666 ft
Brady Township’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Brady Township.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brady Township | — | — | B | — | B+ | C− |
| Chesaning Township | #271 | B | A− | — | B+ | C |
| Rush Township | — | — | B− | — | C+ | C |
| Chapin Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Brant Township | — | — | B+ | — | B | C |
Brady Township, Rush Township and Brant Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Brady Township, Chesaning Township, Rush Township and Brant Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Chapin Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Brady Township with a neighbor →