Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Brusyliv, and it additionally consisted of 36 villages. The territory was . The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Zhytomyr Oblast to four. The area of Brusyliv Raion was merged into Zhytomyr Raion. The last estimate of the raion population was
