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SheetMI-GROSSE-POINTE-FARMS-MI · Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 9,957 pop · income 95th pct
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 Grosse Pointe Farms
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Grosse Pointe Farms on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Muskegon Heig… · lowest
33,780
Muskegon Heig… · lowest
33,780 median HH income
21.0% of the leader · rank #1
Manchaca · near
160,536
Manchaca · near
160,536 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Oneida · near
160,586
Oneida · near
160,586 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #3
Grosse Pointe… · this city
160,589
Grosse Pointe… · this city
160,589 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Lost Creek · near
160,609
Lost Creek · near
160,609 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Roseland · highest
160,644
Roseland · highest
160,644 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Grosse Pointe Farms 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: 9,957.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Grosse Pointe Farms - the verdict
Nationally, Grosse Pointe Farms sits in the 95th percentile for household income and the 60th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
95th
percentile, household income
79th
percentile, home value
32nd
percentile, median rent
60th
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: Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Michigan's Grosse Pointe Farms is a small town, with 9,957 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Grosse Pointe Farms households earn a median of $160,589 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.4%. Grosse Pointe Farms's housing stock carries a median value of $418,600, and the median resident age is 51.0 years. About 78.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 63.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 2 residential building permits were authorized in Grosse Pointe Farms (Stable), up 0% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Grosse Pointe Farms reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1110.0 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Grosse Pointe Farms's yearly average temperature at 48.5°F with 35.8 inches of precipitation per year and 27.9 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in Michigan run below the national norm: the state registers 96.2 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,113 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Michigan's average monthly utility costs around $238 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 49.6 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Grosse Pointe Farms'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income to reported crime to schools and households to climate and hazard context to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Grosse Pointe Farms, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Grosse Pointe Farms?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Grosse Pointe Farms?
Within Michigan, the closest population matches are Marysville (9,942 residents, $69,661 income); Muskegon Heights (9,902 residents, $33,780 income); Howell (10,074 residents, $57,122 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Fallston, MD (9,954 residents); Hampton, NH (9,960 residents); George Mason, VA (9,954 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.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Grosse Pointe Farms?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Grosse Pointe Farms?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1110.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 51% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Grosse Pointe Farms?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 78.9% 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.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Matched public schools
4
Bachelor's degree+
78.9%
Poverty estimate
1.4%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What physical conditions frame life in Grosse Pointe Farms?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 48.5°F, with 35.8 inches of precipitation and 27.9 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Michigan is 49.6 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
48.5°F
Annual precipitation
35.8 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
49.6
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Is Grosse Pointe Farms growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -374 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-3.7%
2025 estimate
9,735
2020 estimate
10,109
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Top-decile income · poverty 1.4% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.2 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Michigan average
A
City profile score · Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
86/100
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+
78.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A+
$160,589
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A+
1.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime A
42 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Grosse Pointe Farms profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 78.9%
Household income: 99/100 (A+) · $160,589
Poverty rate: 90/100 (A+) · 1.4%
Violent crime: 86/100 (A) · 42 /100k
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.2 index
Where Grosse Pointe Farms sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Grosse Pointe Farms'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 - Grosse Pointe Farms highlighted among 27 peers.Read the chart values
Grosse Pointe Farms, MI (this city): home $418,600, crime 1,110/100k
Hampton, NH : home $488,400, crime 844/100k
DuPont, WA : home $550,200, crime 1,168/100k
West Point, MS : home $119,300, crime 2,587/100k
Marysville, MI : home $185,500, crime 667/100k
Howell, MI : home $240,700, crime 751/100k
Alpena, MI : home $110,400, crime 1,504/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Grosse Pointe Farms compare to other US cities?
Grosse Pointe Farms measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income95% higher than other cities
Home value79% pricier than other cities
Median rent32% pricier than other cities
Safety60% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Michigan, Grosse Pointe Farms ranks #111 of 254 Michigan cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Grosse Pointe Farms 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 Grosse Pointe Farms near the bottom of Michigan's cities
Among the 727 Michigan cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Grosse Pointe Farms ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Grosse Pointe Farms only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#15 of 718
98th percentile in Michigan
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 727
0th percentile in Michigan
Median Home Value
#34 of 721
95th percentile in Michigan
Poverty Rate
#640 of 727
12th percentile in Michigan
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#11 of 727
98th 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
95th percentile nationally for median household income · 60th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Grosse Pointe Farms's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Grosse Pointe Farms'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 Grosse Pointe Farms's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$418,60021st percentilemore affordable than 21% 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
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,540 of 15,516
More affordable than 71% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,039 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.6×, Grosse Pointe Farms sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,540 of 15,516 and #4,039 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$160,589Grosse Pointe Farms, MI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Grosse Pointe Farms, 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 Grosse Pointe Farms, MI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)78.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,957
Median Income
$160,589
Median Home Value
$418,600
Median Age
51.0
Poverty Rate
1.4%
Labor force participation
63.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
78.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1110.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
41.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1068.5
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
48.5°F
Annual Precipitation
35.8"
Annual Snowfall
27.9"
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Grosse Pointe Farms's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,109 residents
2021
9,989 residents
2022
9,845 residents
2023
9,764 residents
2024
9,759 residents
2025
9,735 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
2
housing units authorized
Single-Family
2
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
2
2
0
$0.9M
2020
1
1
0
$0.4M
2021
1
1
0
$3.8M
2022
1
1
0
$3.8M
2023
4
4
0
$5.1M
2024
2
2
0
$2.4M
Permit volume increased 0% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
71.1%
Carpool
4.6%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
22.4%
Based on 5,104 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 Grosse Pointe Farms. 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 Grosse Pointe Farms 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 Grosse Pointe Farms sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Grosse Pointe Farms 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.