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SheetMI-GROSSE-POINTE-WOODS-MI · Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 16,177 pop · income 90th 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 Woods
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Grosse Pointe Woods on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Center Point · lowest
52,401
Center Point · lowest
52,401 median HH income
40.5% of the leader · rank #1
Lee Vining · near
129,407
Lee Vining · near
129,407 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Shelter Island · near
129,410
Shelter Island · near
129,410 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Sturbridge · near
129,413
Sturbridge · near
129,413 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Prairie Heigh… · near
129,438
Prairie Heigh… · near
129,438 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Grosse Pointe… · this city
129,442
Grosse Pointe… · this city
129,442 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Maple Grove · highest
129,481
Maple Grove · highest
129,481 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 Grosse Pointe Woods 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: 16,177.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Grosse Pointe Woods - the verdict
Nationally, Grosse Pointe Woods sits in the 90th percentile for household income and the 43rd percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
90th
percentile, household income
68th
percentile, home value
32nd
percentile, median rent
43rd
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 Woods, MI
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 16,177 residents in Grosse Pointe Woods, a small town within Michigan. Households in Grosse Pointe Woods report a median income of $129,442 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.5%. Grosse Pointe Woods's housing stock carries a median value of $322,500, and the median resident age is 43.3 years. Educational attainment runs 65.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 61.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 3 residential building permits were authorized in Grosse Pointe Woods (Building Boom), up 200% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Grosse Pointe Woods reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1583.1 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as 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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,113 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $238 across Michigan, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Grosse Pointe Woods workers runs 18.3 minutes, with 66.0% driving alone and 27.4% working from home. 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 Woods'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 schools and households to comparison shortlist to housing and income to reported crime to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Grosse Pointe Woods, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, 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. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Grosse Pointe Woods?
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.
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 65.9% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Grosse Pointe Woods?
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 Grandville (16,135 residents, $78,551 income); Mount Clemens (15,567 residents, $57,663 income); Traverse City (15,491 residents, $71,731 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sulphur Springs, TX (16,185 residents); Four Corners, OR (16,168 residents); Lithia Springs, GA (16,138 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Grosse Pointe Woods?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Grosse Pointe Woods?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1583.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 31% 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.
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.
Population change
Is Grosse Pointe Woods growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -624 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 3 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
2020 estimate
16,416
2025 estimate
15,792
Period change
-3.8%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Grosse Pointe Woods?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 66.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.3 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.
Drive alone
66.0%
Work from home
27.4%
Public transit
0.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 7,867 workers age 16+.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Michigan average
A-
City profile score · Grosse Pointe Woods, MI
80/100
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+
65.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A+
$129,442
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A
1.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B
96 /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 Woods profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 95/100 (A+) · 65.9%
Household income: 90/100 (A+) · $129,442
Poverty rate: 89/100 (A) · 1.5%
Violent crime: 72/100 (B) · 96 /100k
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.2 index
Where Grosse Pointe Woods sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Grosse Pointe Woods'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 Woods highlighted among 27 peers.Read the chart values
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI (this city): home $322,500, crime 1,583/100k
Sulphur Springs, TX : home $188,200, crime 912/100k
Hermitage, PA : home $187,600, crime 1,375/100k
Griffith, IN : home $200,400, crime 1,117/100k
Grandville, MI : home $251,100, crime 3,793/100k
Wixom, MI : home $336,200, crime 1,151/100k
Harper Woods, MI : home $143,600, crime 5,042/100k
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 Woods compare to other US cities?
Grosse Pointe Woods measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income90% higher than other cities
Home value68% pricier than other cities
Median rent32% pricier than other cities
Safety43% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Michigan and the picture shifts: Grosse Pointe Woods ranks #159 of 254 Michigan cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Grosse Pointe Woods 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 Woods near the bottom of Michigan's cities
Among the 727 Michigan cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Grosse Pointe Woods ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Grosse Pointe Woods only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#23 of 718
97th percentile in Michigan
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 727
0th percentile in Michigan
Median Home Value
#62 of 721
91st percentile in Michigan
Poverty Rate
#632 of 727
12th percentile in Michigan
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#31 of 727
96th 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
90th percentile nationally for median household income · 43rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Grosse Pointe Woods's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Grosse Pointe Woods'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 Woods's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$322,50032nd percentilemore affordable than 32% 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
#3,957 of 15,516
More affordable than 74% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#355 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.5×, Grosse Pointe Woods sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,957 of 15,516 and #355 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$129,442Grosse Pointe Woods, MI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Grosse Pointe Woods, 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 Woods, MI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)65.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,177
Median Income
$129,442
Median Home Value
$322,500
Median Age
43.3
Poverty Rate
1.5%
Labor force participation
61.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
65.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1583.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
95.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1487.4
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
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Grosse Pointe Woods's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,416 residents
2021
16,216 residents
2022
15,976 residents
2023
15,851 residents
2024
15,834 residents
2025
15,792 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
3
housing units authorized
Single-Family
3
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
1
1
0
$0.4M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
0
0
0
-
2022
2
2
0
$0.6M
2023
1
1
0
$0.5M
2024
3
3
0
$1.0M
Permit volume increased 200% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.3 minutes
Drive Alone
66.0%
Carpool
3.7%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
1.4%
Work from Home
27.4%
Other
1.2%
Based on 7,867 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 Woods. 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 Woods 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 Woods sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Grosse Pointe Woods 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.