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Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Bloomfield Hills is a city in Oakland County, Michigan, part of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area. It has 4,415 residents. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan has a quality-of-life score of 89 out of 100 (very high), ranking #1,705 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Michigan it ranks #23 of 444 cities and towns. It ranks best on primary care physicians (high), poor or fair health (low) and bachelor's degree or higher (high). It ranks worst on income inequality (Gini index) (high), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high) and days with unhealthy air (high).

89Very high

Quality-of-life score: #1,705 of 15,651 cities and towns
Michigan: #23 of 444 in MI
Population: 4,415 (2020-2024)
Land area: 5 mi²
Density: 890.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 2609180

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety76#3,750/15,637
Economy91#1,415/15,631
Housing27#10,863/14,977
Health95#841/15,609
Healthcare94#981/15,650
Environment20#12,421/15,453
Education82#2,894/15,649
Infrastructure89#1,752/15,650
Community93#1,124/15,651
Leisure & amenities80#3,081/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Bloomfield Hills, Michigan ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Oakland County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Primary care physicians · high142 /100k
98/100Michigan 81 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOakland County value
Poor or fair health · low9.9%
98/100Michigan 19.3%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Bachelor's degree or higher · high78.9%
98/100Michigan 32.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Lack of reliable transportation · low4.2%
98/100Michigan 8.8%United States 8.3%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Physical inactivity · low13.5%
98/100Michigan 25.0%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Voter turnout · high81.8%
98/100Michigan 74.6%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionOakland County value

Weaknesses

Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.531
2/100Michigan 0.465United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high9.3 µg/m³
7/100Michigan 8.6 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyOakland County value
Days with unhealthy air · high2.6%
16/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyOakland County value
Preventable hospital stays · high3,507 /100k
20/100Michigan 3,367 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOakland County value
Job growth · low-1.4%
20/100Michigan 0.3%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataOakland County value
High ozone days · high3 days
21/100Michigan 3 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyOakland County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
4,004 (2015-2019) → 4,415 (2020-2024)
+10%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedImproving
0.5 /1k (2021) → 1.8 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+298%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
67.9% (2015-2019) → 78.9% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
47.2% (2015-2019) → 56.1% (2020-2024)
+8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
28.8% (2015-2019) → 36.3% (2020-2024)
+7.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateWorsening
0.4% (2015-2019) → 5.2% (2020-2024)
+4.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan improved on 0 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 10 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.3 min2015-2019	20.1 min2020-2024	−1.2 min	Within the margin of error	62%
Bachelor's degree or higher	67.9%2015-2019	78.9%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	92%
Broadband subscriptions	93.6%2015-2019	92.6%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	6%
Effective property tax rate	1.20%2015-2019	1.20%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	15%
High school diploma or higher	95.4%2015-2019	98.7%2020-2024	+3.3 points	Within the margin of error	71%
Home price to income ratio	4.8×2015-2019	5.0×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	69%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5112015-2019	0.5312020-2024	+0.020	Within the margin of error	34%
Median household income	$178,8942015-2019	$189,9422020-2024	+6.2%	Within the margin of error	13%
Rent as share of income	28.8%2015-2019	36.3%2020-2024	+7.5 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Rent-burdened households	47.2%2015-2019	56.1%2020-2024	+8.9 points	Within the margin of error	27%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Bloomfield Hills, Michigan five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan itself moved −6.7 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

4,415 residents (±26)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 30–39 women (+4.7 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

4,415 residents (±26)

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Michigan share

White83%3,678
Black4.1%†180
Hispanic or Latino1.6%†71

Education

3,182 residents (±151)

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Michigan share

No high school diploma1.3%†41
High school or GED11%†345
Some college7.7%

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,610 households (±117)

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Michigan share

Under $25k5.6%†90
$25k–50k5.8%†93
$50k–75k6.3%†101
$75k–100k7.9%†127
$100k–150k16%†254
$150k–200k9.3%†150
$200k or more49%795

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,610 households (±117)

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Michigan share

Own86%1,381
Rent14%†229

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−6.0 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

157 households (±83)

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Michigan share

Under $7500.0%0
$750–1,0000.0%0
$1,000–1,50013%†21

Home values

1,381 homes (±127)

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Michigan share

Under $150k2.2%†30
$150k–250k4.5%†62
$250k–400k11%†149

Age of homes

1,736 homes (±123)

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Michigan share

2010 or later6.5%†112
2000–20092.0%†35
1980–199930%527

Size of homes

1,736 homes (±123)

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Michigan share

Studio5.8%†101
1 bedroom0.3%†6
2 bedrooms17%†296

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,755 workers (±195)

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Michigan share

Drive alone75%1,309
Carpool1.3%†22
Public transit0.0%0
Walk5.1%†90
Bike0.0%0
Work from home16%†286
Other2.7%†48

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Drive alone (−9.3 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

1,469 workers (±216)

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Michigan share

Under 15 min42%612
15–29 min24%†358
30–44 min30%†442

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Oakland County, the county holding most of Bloomfield Hills's residents.

Oakland County has 39,792 employer establishments, 312 for every 10,000 residents (1.26× the US rate of 248; 1.37× Michigan's), with 733,671 paid employees at an average annual pay of $72,528. The Census Bureau also counts 133,605 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 39,792; 133,605 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 312; US 248 · Michigan 228
Paid employees: 733,671
Average annual pay: $72,528; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Oakland County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	4,499	35.3	1.69×More than typical	61,870	$59,481	8,963
Restaurants and other eating places	2,603	20.4	1.11×About typical	47,998	$23,559	538
Specialty trade contractors	1,744	13.7	0.88×About typical	19,497	$87,148	6,899
Offices of physicians	1,664	13.1	2.02×More than typical	18,839	$79,918	2,192
Lessors of real estate	1,590	12.5	1.01×About typical	16,135	$71,404	19,020
Legal services	1,330	10.4	1.94×More than typical	10,888	$113,064	2,222
Management, scientific and technical consulting	1,206	9.5	1.41×More than typical	15,023	$104,311	6,292
Offices of other health practitioners	1,204	9.4	1.55×More than typical	8,424	$51,068	3,965
Limited-service restaurants	1,202	9.4	1.18×About typical	20,105	$20,072	224
Full-service restaurants	1,112	8.7	1.14×About typical	24,621	$26,680	182
Computer systems design and related services	1,097	8.6	1.99×More than typical	22,681	$98,544	1,839
Services to buildings and dwellings	1,065	8.4	1.24×About typical	9,839	$46,401	6,094

Rank places for an industry Open Oakland County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 1,274,993 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated -$1,957 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: -$0.44 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: -$1,957; −101% vs FY2025
Per resident: -$0.44; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

CAROLINE A BAXTER-$1,9570.0%

Spending by fiscal year

9.9KFY2017
24.2KFY2018
3KFY2019
224.1KFY2020
94.5KFY2021
72.4KFY2022
225.4KFY2023
250.3KFY2024
166.7K

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, so they do not add up across cities.

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan's figures are part of those of Oakland County, MI ($1.1B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Bloomfield Hills is mostly in Oakland County.

See federal money in Oakland County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).