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Bloomfield Hills

Bloomfield Hills is a northern suburb of Detroit on the Woodward Corridor, located roughly twenty miles northwest of downtown Detroit, and is surrounded on most sides by Bloomfield Township. As of the 2020 United States census, the city had a population of 4,470. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.04 square miles, of which 4.96 square miles is land and 0.08 square miles is water.

The site was settled in 1819 by Amasa Bagley and was known as Bagley’s Corners and Bloomfield Center until the present name was adopted in the 1890s. What is now Bloomfield Hills was a farming area until the turn of the 20th century when wealthy Detroit residents bought up the land. The settlement became a village in 1927, and in 1929 residents voted to become a city to avoid being incorporated into growing Birmingham.

Bloomfield Hills is one of the wealthiest cities with over 1,000 people in the United States and is one of the wealthiest places in Michigan. 39% of owner-occupied homes had a value of over $1,000,000, and 32.1% with a value between $500,000 and $999,999. The median household income in Bloomfield Hills is $189,942 with a poverty rate of 3.91%. The median age is 48.4 years. The estimated median house or condo value in 2023 was $994,695.

The largest racial/ethnic groups are White (85.4%), followed by Two or More (6.6%) and Black (3.8%).

Bloomfield Hills is governed by a five-member City Commission, elected at-large on nonpartisan ballots to two-year terms. The Commission appoints the Mayor from among its members. Susan McCarthy currently serves as Mayor of Bloomfield Hills, with Brad Baxter, Lauren Fisher, Alice Buckley (Mayor Pro Tem), and Alan Ackerman serving as commissioners.

Bloomfield Hills is the location of the National Historic Landmark Cranbrook Educational Community. The Cranbrook Educational Community, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989, was founded in 1904 by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth and his wife, Ellen Scripps Booth. The campus consists of Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Institute of Science, and Cranbrook House and Gardens. Cranbrook is renowned for its architecture in the Arts and Crafts Movement style by chief architects Albert Kahn and Eliel Saarinen. Bloomfield Hills is home to the Cranbrook Academy of Art, one of the nation’s leading graduate schools of architecture, art and design. It was founded by the Booths in 1932. By 1984, the New York Times would say that “the effect of Cranbrook and its graduates and faculty on the physical environment of this country has been profound.”

Companies headquartered in Bloomfield Hills include Taubman Centers, TriMas Corp., and Penske Automotive Group. Oakland Community College also maintains its main offices in Bloomfield Hills.

Bloomfield Hills is the location of the National Historic Landmark Cranbrook Educational Community and other historic sites listed on the national register of historic places. The city is also home to several landmark houses of worship, including Christ Church Cranbrook Episcopal, consecrated in 1928 as part of George Booth’s plan for the Cranbrook Educational Community, and St. Hugo of the Hills Roman Catholic Church, built from 1931 to 1936.

Notable people associated with Bloomfield Hills include Mitt Romney, born in Detroit and raised in Bloomfield Hills, who served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts and was the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nominee. Romney attended Cranbrook School, the private boys’ preparatory school located on the Cranbrook campus. Other notable residents have included Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, who designed the Cranbrook campus and served as the Academy’s first president; Roger Penske, chairman of Penske Automotive Group; and numerous Detroit-area business and cultural leaders.

City of Bloomfield Hills