Wixom, Michigan.
Typical home $383,446 (+1.4% in a year), asking rent $1,179 . Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,055 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,450 +1%
- $377,996$383,446 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,982 +23%
- $311,463$383,446 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.
- Wixom$2,013
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Wixom, MI rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wixom, Oakland County, Michigan
Wixom is a city of 17,193 people in Oakland County. Half its households earn more than $65,485 a year and half less, against $97,760 across Oakland County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 42% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 58% 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 manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wixom is a small city in Oakland County, Michigan, with a younger population than many places where older homeowners tend to look. Most households rent rather than own, and incomes run well below the county's, which is among the more prosperous in the state. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and precipitation falls fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops close behind. Within the city itself, larger workplaces include Trijicon Wixom, which makes optical equipment, Amazon, which runs a warehouse here, and Meijer. Many people commute a moderate distance, and a good number work from home.
Things to do. Walled Lake lies in or beside town and is the closest spot for time near the water. A short drive away is the Holocaust Memorial Center, a museum. Farther afield, the Detroit Institute of Arts is a well-known museum, and the Detroit Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 8,720households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 14%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 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milford Gm Proving Ground weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wixom
- J and B MedicalMedical furniture merchant wholesalers494
- Trijicon WixomComparators, optical, manufacturing458
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage456
- MAC VALVES INC Wixom PlantSolenoid valves, industrial-type, manufacturing281
- Purem WixomCatalytic converters, engine exhaust, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing250
- MeijerRetail219
- Motor City Wash WorksCarwashing machinery manufacturing183
- Moeller Mfg. CompanyAircraft turbines manufacturing182
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 62 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,884 people in all. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of WixomRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of WixomRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wixom’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Wixom home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wixom$383,446
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Wixom listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Wixom26.10%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wixom42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wixom17
Zip codes with a Wixom address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wixom — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.