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Place dossier plate
SheetMI-FARMINGTON-HILLS-MI · Farmington Hills, MI 83,316 pop · income 79th pct · 350 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Farmington Hills
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Farmington Hills on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Flint · lowest
36,194
Flint · lowest
36,194 median HH income
30.3% of the leader · rank #1
South River · near
101,853
South River · near
101,853 median HH income
85.4% of the leader · rank #2
Woodstown · near
101,855
Woodstown · near
101,855 median HH income
85.4% of the leader · rank #3
Highwood · near
101,862
Highwood · near
101,862 median HH income
85.4% of the leader · rank #4
Farmington Hi… · this city
101,863
Farmington Hi… · this city
101,863 median HH income
85.4% of the leader · rank #5
Airmont · near
101,868
Airmont · near
101,868 median HH income
85.4% of the leader · rank #6
Troy · highest
119,299
Troy · highest
119,299 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Farmington Hills on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 83,316.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Farmington Hills - the verdict
Nationally, Farmington Hills sits in the 79th percentile for household income and the 69th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
79th
percentile, household income
70th
percentile, home value
32nd
percentile, median rent
69th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Farmington Hills, MI
Michigan's Farmington Hills is a small city, with 83,316 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $101,863 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.3%. Typical homes in Farmington Hills are valued around $333,200, and the median resident age is 41.4 years. 58.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 63.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 21 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 55% from five years earlier. Farmington Hills reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 879.2 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Michigan run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Michigan at 96.2 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,113 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Michigan run around $238, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 19.6 minutes, with 72.3% driving alone and 20.2% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 49.6 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Farmington Hills's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to schools and households to within-city variation to reported crime to comparison shortlist to housing and income to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Farmington Hills, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Farmington Hills?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.6 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
What does the education layer cover for Farmington Hills?
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 58.0% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
What can 350 Census tracts reveal inside Farmington Hills?
PlainCities matches 350 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Farmington Hills?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Michigan, the closest population matches are Westland (84,155 residents, $62,216 income); Flint (80,835 residents, $36,194 income); Troy (87,307 residents, $119,299 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Cicero, IL (83,223 residents); Buena Park, CA (83,052 residents); Warwick, RI (82,871 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Farmington Hills?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 879.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 61% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
879.2
Violent rate
198.5
Property rate
680.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Farmington Hills?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.3×
Home value
$333,200
Household income
$101,863
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is Farmington Hills growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -546 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 21 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
83,837
2025 estimate
83,291
Period change
-0.7%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Michigan average
B-
City profile score · Farmington Hills, MI
68/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share A+
58.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$101,863
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living C
96.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime D
199 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Farmington Hills profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 91/100 (A+) · 58.0%
Household income: 78/100 (B+) · $101,863
Poverty rate: 70/100 (B) · 4.3%
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.2 index
Violent crime: 48/100 (D) · 199 /100k
Where Farmington Hills sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Farmington Hills's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Farmington Hills highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Farmington Hills, MI (this city): home $333,200, crime 879/100k
Cicero, IL : home $236,000, crime 1,581/100k
Buena Park, CA : home $771,900, crime 2,613/100k
Warwick, RI : home $322,000, crime 1,227/100k
Longview, TX : home $182,700, crime 2,690/100k
Cranston, RI : home $348,800, crime 1,145/100k
Westland, MI : home $176,500, crime 1,805/100k
Flint, MI : home $47,600, crime 2,570/100k
Troy, MI : home $396,800, crime 1,392/100k
Wyoming, MI : home $203,900, crime 2,616/100k
Rochester Hills, MI : home $377,400, crime 624/100k
Southfield, MI : home $226,900, crime 2,913/100k
How does Farmington Hills compare to other US cities?
Farmington Hills measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income79% higher than other cities
Home value70% pricier than other cities
Median rent32% pricier than other cities
Safety69% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Michigan alone, Farmington Hills ranks #87 of 254 Michigan cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Farmington Hills against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Michigan only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Michigan-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Farmington Hills near the bottom of Michigan's cities
Among the 727 Michigan cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Farmington Hills ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Farmington Hills only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#58 of 718
92nd percentile in Michigan
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 727
0th percentile in Michigan
Median Home Value
#59 of 721
92nd percentile in Michigan
Poverty Rate
#502 of 727
30th percentile in Michigan
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#46 of 727
94th percentile in Michigan
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Michigan only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
79th percentile nationally for median household income · 69th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Farmington Hills's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Farmington Hills's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Farmington Hills's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$333,20030th percentilemore affordable than 30% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,983 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#159 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.3×, Farmington Hills sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,983 of 15,516 and #159 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$101,863Farmington Hills, MI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Farmington Hills, MI median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Farmington Hills, MI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)58.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
83,316
Median Income
$101,863
Median Home Value
$333,200
Median Age
41.4
Poverty Rate
4.3%
Labor force participation
63.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
58.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
879.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
198.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
680.7
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Farmington Hills's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
83,837 residents
2021
83,432 residents
2022
82,905 residents
2023
82,760 residents
2024
83,274 residents
2025
83,291 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
21
housing units authorized
Single-Family
21
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
47
47
0
$11.3M
2020
20
12
8
$3.6M
2021
13
13
0
$4.4M
2022
18
16
2
$6.9M
2023
39
39
0
$12.6M
2024
21
21
0
$11.4M
Permit volume decreased 55% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.6 minutes
Drive Alone
72.3%
Carpool
5.3%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
20.2%
Other
1.1%
Based on 43,941 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Michigan statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $238
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Michigan at $238 (electricity about $105 , water and sewer about $48 ).
These are Michigan statewide averages, not a meter reading for Farmington Hills. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Michigan's BEA cost-of-living index is 96.2 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Farmington Hills is $1,113/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Michigan statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 49.6 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Michigan statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Farmington Hills sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Farmington Hills compares to similar-size Michigan cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.