West Bloomfield, Michigan.
Typical home $455,559 (+2.6% in a year), asking rent $2,277 (+6.8%). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,249 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,519 +3%
- $444,040$455,559 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,047 +21%
- $375,512$455,559 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- West Bloomfield$2,391
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in West Bloomfield, MI rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in West Bloomfield, MI rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in West Bloomfield runs $1,085/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,184 in Feb 2025.
That is $3,362 a month against $2,277 rent: a $2,391 mortgage payment, plus $483 property tax and $488 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — West Bloomfield
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,362
- Renting$2,277
- Mortgage only$2,391
Property tax · $483/mo 1.27% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Oakland County, MI
Insurance & upkeep · $488/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in West Bloomfield, Oakland County, Michigan
West Bloomfield is a township of 65,888 people in Oakland County. Half its households earn more than $125,453 a year and half less, against $97,760 across Oakland County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Oakland County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. West Bloomfield is a township in Oakland County, with a population that skews older than much of the country and incomes well above the county's. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, far more so than in most places, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is high. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and the year brings a moderate mix of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, manufacturing and retail also employing a good number. The largest workplaces in town include Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital and the West Bloomfield School District. Commutes are fairly typical for the country, and a fair number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Orchard Lake is a lake in or beside town, and the Holocaust Memorial Center, a museum, is a short drive away. The Pontiac Silverdome, a stadium, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Detroit Institute of Arts, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 25,016households
- 60%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oakland County had 720,266 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pontiac Oakland County International Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in West Bloomfield
- Henry Ford West Bloomfield HospitalGeneral hospital1,818FTE
- West Bloomfield School DistrictSchool district688FTE
- AJF ExpressDelivery service203
- Preferred CareSkilled nursing facilities190
- Ciena Healthcare ManagementNursing care facilities -skilled nursing facilities143
- West Bloomfield OpcoSkilled nursing facilities123
- Kroger Michigan KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores112
- Henry Ford Medical Center Farmington RdCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient90
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,877 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Oakland County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Oakland County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
West Bloomfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Bloomfield$455,559
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 West Bloomfield listings, and the typical home goes pending in 18 days — the market is heating up.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- West Bloomfield32.89%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- West Bloomfield18
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- West Bloomfield311
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- West Bloomfield100
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- West Bloomfield$409,594
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- West Bloomfield99.99%
Zip codes with a West Bloomfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Bloomfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in West Bloomfield
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48322 | West Bloomfield | 32,885 | $2,258 | $415,216 |
| 48324 | West Bloomfield | 17,098 | $1,849 | $477,291 |