You either have to win the lottery or be a descendant of one of Virginia’s many notables like Warren Beatty to live in one of the wealthiest cities in the Old Dominion. The richest cities in Virginia are expensive.
You’ll need over a salary of over $90,000/year to fit in. Not to mention the cities on our list are centralized around Washington D. C., so knowing someone
To create this list, we used Saturday Night Science to analyze the latest Census and Zillow data on incomes and home prices. We limited the analysis to 200 Virginia cities with more than 3,000 residents.
Wealthy people want to live in the best cities, so it’s not lost on us that there are multiple cities on our ten best cities to live in Virginia for 2026 that are also on our richest list.
$189,942 median income · 3.9% poverty · #2 income in Michigan
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$166,610 median income · 3.6% poverty · #4 income in Michigan
Located in
Kent County, Michigan
East Grand Rapids is a city in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and is located on the shores of Reeds Lake. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 10,694.
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$190,150 median income · 2.2% poverty · #1 income in Michigan
Located in
Oakland County, Michigan
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$153,510 median income · 5.1% poverty · #7 income in Michigan
Located in
Oakland County, Michigan
Birmingham is a city on the north side of Metro Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,103.
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$177,412 median income · 1.7% poverty · #3 income in Michigan
Located in
Oakland County, Michigan
Beverly Hills is a village in Southfield Township, Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a suburb of Detroit. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,267 making it by far the most populous village in the state.
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$145,530 median income · 2.8% poverty · #8 income in Michigan
Located in
Wayne County, Michigan
Northville is a city located in and divided by Oakland and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of Michigan. The area is a suburb of Metropolitan Detroit. The population was 5,970 at the 2010 census. Most of the city is in Oakland County and is surrounded by the city of Novi, while the other part is in Wayne County is surrounded by Northville Township. Northville is served by Northville Public Schools. The city is located 21 miles northeast of Ann Arbor and 29 miles northwest of Detroit.
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$161,208 median income · 2.5% poverty · #5 income in Michigan
Located in
Wayne County, Michigan
Grosse Pointe Farms is a suburban town bordering Detroit located in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,479 at the 2010 census. It is bordered by Canada and Lake Saint Clair on the south and east, Grosse Pointe on the west, Detroit on the north, and Grosse Pointe Woods and Grosse Pointe Shores on the northeast. Lakeshore Drive begins in Grosse Pointe Farms, where, just east of Fisher Road, the eastbound driver or pedestrian on Jefferson Avenue descends to lake level, following the curvature of the lakefront to the northeast.
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$124,111 median income · 4.9% poverty · #10 income in Michigan
Located in
Wayne County, Michigan
Grosse Pointe Park is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 11,555 at the 2010 census. Bordering on Detroit with frontage on southern Lake Saint Clair, it is the westernmost of the noted Grosse Pointe suburbs, with the oldest overall housing stock of the five cities. Grosse Pointe Park is 6 miles east of downtown Detroit and thus is home to many who commute to the city on a daily basis. The area is often referred to simply as ‘GPP’ or “The Park”. Many locals call the area from Alter Road to Nottingham in between Jefferson Avenue and Mack Avenue the Cabbage Patch, due to how the duplex style houses are closer together than the rest of the city.
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$158,853 median income · 2.8% poverty · #6 income in Michigan
Grosse Pointe is a waterfront city adjacent to Detroit in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The municipality covers just over one square mile and had a population of 5,421 at the 2010 census. It is bordered on the west by Grosse Pointe Park, on the north by Detroit, on the east by Grosse Pointe Farms, and on the south by Lake Saint Clair. Grosse Pointe is about eight miles east of downtown Detroit, accessible by Jefferson Avenue or several other cross streets. Grosse Pointe is one of five similarly named municipalities in northeastern Wayne County, and is often called “The City” or Grosse Pointe City.
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$111,750 median income · 4.2% poverty · #15 income in Michigan
Located in
Oakland County, Michigan
Rochester is a city on the north side of the Detroit Metropolitan Area, in Oakland County, in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 12,711 at the 2010 census.
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Pick a metric. The bars rescale. The red line is Michigan’s statewide median.
Michigan statewide median: $72,875
Michigan statewide median: $259,857
Michigan statewide median: 13.2%
Michigan statewide median: 5.7%
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Where the money lives in Michigan
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How we determined the richest places in Michigan for 2026
The first thing most people reach for is personal income. After all, rich people have really high salaries. But one statistic doesn’t capture what it means to be one of the “richest places,” so we applied Saturday Night Science to two measures from the 2020-2024 American Community Survey:
- Median household income
- Median home value
Median household income is the most digestible way to understand how rich a place is, and home values are a measure of accumulated wealth. The two combine to define a “Rich City.”
After collecting the data for all 200 places in Michigan with more than 3,000 people, we ranked each place from 1 to 200 on both criteria, then averaged the two ranks into a “Rich Score.” The place with the lowest Rich Score, Bloomfield Hills, is crowned the richest city in Michigan for 2026. The median Michigan home is 54 years old — old enough that it pays to compare home warranty plans before something expensive breaks.
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All 100 richest cities in Michigan, ranked
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| Rank | City | Rich Score | Population | Median income | Median home value | Poverty | Unemployment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bloomfield Hills | 2.50 | 4,415 | $189,942 | $663,115 | 3.9% | 3.8% |
| 2 | East Grand Rapids | 3.00 | 11,445 | $166,610 | $664,184 | 3.6% | 3.2% |
| 3 | Huntington Woods | 3.50 | 6,328 | $190,150 | $537,208 | 2.2% | 0.9% |
| 4 | Birmingham | 4.00 | 21,763 | $153,510 | $733,351 | 5.1% | 4.4% |
| 5 | Beverly Hills | 4.00 | 10,524 | $177,412 | $587,951 | 1.7% | 1.6% |
| 6 | Northville | 6.00 | 6,069 | $145,530 | $588,077 | 2.8% | 2.1% |
| 7 | Grosse Pointe Farms | 6.50 | 9,904 | $161,208 | $513,933 | 2.5% | 1.9% |
| 8 | Grosse Pointe Park | 9.50 | 11,319 | $124,111 | $502,195 | 4.9% | 3.3% |
| 9 | Grosse Pointe | 10.00 | 5,541 | $158,853 | $469,116 | 2.8% | 4.3% |
| 10 | Rochester | 12.50 | 12,934 | $111,750 | $486,537 | 4.2% | 2.5% |
| 11 | Plymouth | 13.50 | 9,214 | $112,145 | $471,425 | 3.2% | 2.3% |
| 12 | Rochester Hills | 14.00 | 77,089 | $120,694 | $465,253 | 5.2% | 4.1% |
| 13 | Troy | 15.50 | 87,898 | $120,045 | $457,480 | 5.4% | 4.4% |
| 14 | Milford | 16.00 | 6,487 | $105,713 | $481,467 | 7.6% | 2.1% |
| 15 | Novi | 16.00 | 66,717 | $110,723 | $467,223 | 5.4% | 4.3% |
| 16 | Rockford | 19.50 | 6,218 | $107,121 | $450,322 | 5.0% | 6.2% |
| 17 | South Lyon | 22.00 | 11,950 | $92,467 | $467,292 | 4.0% | 3.7% |
| 18 | Ann Arbor | 24.25 | 122,036 | $82,212 | $523,391 | 23.8% | 3.9% |
| 19 | Grosse Pointe Woods | 25.50 | 16,094 | $126,395 | $349,101 | 4.9% | 5.8% |
| 20 | Saline | 26.00 | 9,006 | $88,346 | $465,110 | 5.8% | 6.3% |
| 21 | Farmington Hills | 26.50 | 83,515 | $104,836 | $387,308 | 7.6% | 5.2% |
| 22 | Hudsonville | 28.50 | 7,769 | $91,280 | $417,204 | 8.3% | 5.4% |
| 23 | New Baltimore | 29.50 | 12,072 | $106,033 | $354,733 | 5.4% | 4.2% |
| 24 | DeWitt | 30.00 | 4,777 | $110,341 | $347,710 | 5.6% | 3.1% |
| 25 | Brighton | 33.50 | 7,688 | $80,682 | $432,666 | 8.1% | 2.9% |
| 26 | Oxford | 33.50 | 3,474 | $83,611 | $404,768 | 9.9% | 10.9% |
| 27 | Lathrup Village | 35.00 | 4,059 | $109,893 | $327,715 | 5.6% | 4.2% |
| 28 | Berkley | 36.50 | 15,149 | $116,239 | $314,815 | 4.5% | 2.2% |
| 29 | Petoskey | 37.00 | 5,856 | $74,196 | $472,426 | 9.0% | 1.6% |
| 30 | Royal Oak | 37.00 | 57,950 | $101,109 | $331,359 | 6.2% | 3.5% |
| 31 | Farmington | 39.50 | 11,504 | $97,750 | $327,491 | 4.8% | 3.9% |
| 32 | Romeo | 42.00 | 3,578 | $74,323 | $423,748 | 11.1% | 1.7% |
| 33 | Traverse City | 42.50 | 15,593 | $74,087 | $437,525 | 12.3% | 5.2% |
| 34 | Fenton | 42.50 | 11,906 | $80,000 | $355,969 | 6.9% | 8.7% |
| 35 | Wolverine Lake | 43.50 | 4,487 | $92,247 | $323,138 | 5.8% | 2.8% |
| 36 | North Muskegon | 44.00 | 4,098 | $104,659 | $308,746 | 5.0% | 2.2% |
| 37 | Livonia | 44.00 | 93,851 | $98,460 | $309,576 | 4.7% | 4.6% |
| 38 | St. Joseph | 44.50 | 7,986 | $84,057 | $328,307 | 7.3% | 2.0% |
| 39 | Holland | 46.50 | 34,423 | $75,865 | $364,546 | 10.3% | 2.5% |
| 40 | Grandville | 46.50 | 16,356 | $78,442 | $353,731 | 7.3% | 1.6% |
| 41 | Frankenmuth | 47.50 | 5,157 | $85,433 | $315,291 | 4.9% | 4.7% |
| 42 | Linden | 48.00 | 4,160 | $79,464 | $332,772 | 4.4% | 9.8% |
| 43 | Walker | 48.00 | 25,386 | $76,360 | $352,818 | 7.6% | 2.9% |
| 44 | Milan | 48.00 | 5,987 | $96,949 | $303,662 | 10.4% | 5.8% |
| 45 | Chelsea | 49.00 | 5,426 | $72,098 | $411,817 | 4.1% | 4.9% |
| 46 | Lowell | 49.50 | 4,139 | $72,875 | $402,171 | 4.5% | 0.5% |
| 47 | Middleville | 51.50 | 4,380 | $73,625 | $356,142 | 7.7% | 3.1% |
| 48 | Wayland | 52.50 | 4,457 | $74,464 | $337,076 | 9.9% | 3.1% |
| 49 | Kentwood | 54.50 | 54,296 | $74,373 | $331,531 | 10.4% | 4.5% |
| 50 | Clawson | 55.50 | 11,374 | $88,636 | $286,026 | 5.9% | 4.9% |
| 51 | Portage | 56.50 | 49,259 | $83,212 | $292,450 | 7.1% | 4.3% |
| 52 | Sterling Heights | 57.00 | 133,573 | $79,909 | $306,785 | 11.1% | 6.1% |
| 53 | South Haven | 60.00 | 3,998 | $68,239 | $368,537 | 15.8% | 2.9% |
| 54 | Auburn Hills | 60.50 | 25,105 | $84,375 | $277,483 | 11.1% | 6.0% |
| 55 | Dundee | 63.50 | 5,744 | $78,837 | $286,249 | 5.2% | 3.4% |
| 56 | Norton Shores | 64.00 | 25,041 | $76,579 | $287,720 | 6.5% | 4.8% |
| 57 | Boyne City | 64.00 | 3,825 | $64,855 | $405,458 | 7.8% | 5.0% |
| 58 | Wixom | 65.00 | 17,295 | $65,485 | $384,492 | 10.9% | 3.4% |
| 59 | Ferndale | 66.00 | 19,190 | $94,640 | $250,328 | 9.0% | 3.7% |
| 60 | Williamston | 66.00 | 3,807 | $71,379 | $324,881 | 9.2% | 4.3% |
| 61 | Coopersville | 67.00 | 4,848 | $67,131 | $344,569 | 9.5% | 4.6% |
| 62 | Mason | 68.00 | 8,249 | $79,117 | $275,133 | 5.3% | 2.9% |
| 63 | St. Clair | 70.00 | 5,585 | $69,688 | $311,688 | 7.1% | 0.8% |
| 64 | Wyoming | 70.00 | 77,353 | $73,677 | $286,890 | 10.5% | 4.1% |
| 65 | Flat Rock | 70.00 | 10,340 | $81,585 | $257,473 | 10.3% | 7.3% |
| 66 | Woodhaven | 70.50 | 12,690 | $78,648 | $266,356 | 13.0% | 7.2% |
| 67 | Otsego | 75.50 | 4,074 | $74,156 | $268,738 | 5.3% | 2.3% |
| 68 | Grand Rapids | 76.00 | 198,535 | $69,108 | $303,298 | 16.9% | 5.2% |
| 69 | Gibraltar | 76.50 | 4,873 | $91,651 | $228,500 | 3.2% | 5.0% |
| 70 | Grand Haven | 76.50 | 10,996 | $60,669 | $391,797 | 14.5% | 1.8% |
| 71 | Trenton | 76.75 | 18,125 | $82,212 | $239,684 | 5.5% | 3.3% |
| 72 | Grand Ledge | 77.50 | 7,804 | $68,980 | $296,333 | 6.2% | 4.6% |
| 73 | Vicksburg | 78.00 | 3,934 | $72,656 | $276,841 | 4.9% | 4.0% |
| 74 | Rockwood | 79.50 | 3,161 | $88,080 | $227,940 | 11.4% | 2.7% |
| 75 | Howell | 79.50 | 10,021 | $60,449 | $377,375 | 7.7% | 3.2% |
| 76 | New Haven | 79.50 | 6,475 | $66,125 | $308,844 | 13.8% | 3.3% |
| 77 | St. Johns | 80.50 | 7,715 | $68,728 | $286,182 | 12.5% | 4.1% |
| 78 | Flushing | 81.00 | 8,284 | $80,025 | $235,733 | 7.0% | 6.7% |
| 79 | Holly | 81.50 | 5,964 | $64,305 | $320,381 | 8.5% | 4.2% |
| 80 | Grand Blanc | 83.00 | 7,987 | $68,052 | $285,257 | 9.0% | 2.5% |
| 81 | Marshall | 83.50 | 6,804 | $76,050 | $240,469 | 5.7% | 6.9% |
| 82 | Richmond | 85.00 | 5,855 | $64,719 | $303,793 | 13.5% | 11.5% |
| 83 | Sparta | 85.00 | 4,271 | $60,728 | $332,487 | 9.3% | 6.7% |
| 84 | Whitehall | 87.00 | 3,024 | $61,169 | $325,066 | 16.3% | 0.2% |
| 85 | Midland | 87.00 | 42,724 | $73,325 | $247,417 | 10.3% | 4.1% |
| 86 | Belleville | 88.50 | 3,910 | $62,991 | $305,079 | 5.5% | 9.7% |
| 87 | Portland | 88.50 | 3,790 | $65,845 | $282,998 | 7.3% | 2.7% |
| 88 | Riverview | 89.00 | 12,186 | $73,468 | $242,241 | 7.3% | 2.3% |
| 89 | Swartz Creek | 90.50 | 5,853 | $71,571 | $245,863 | 10.9% | 0.6% |
| 90 | Cedar Springs | 91.00 | 3,670 | $57,979 | $340,591 | 22.2% | 6.4% |
| 91 | Walled Lake | 91.00 | 7,299 | $72,055 | $242,300 | 10.5% | 4.0% |
| 92 | Zeeland | 93.00 | 5,665 | $52,628 | $382,237 | 10.4% | 2.9% |
| 93 | Allen Park | 93.50 | 27,925 | $81,655 | $206,256 | 6.9% | 4.8% |
| 94 | Southfield | 94.00 | 76,236 | $68,166 | $250,952 | 10.3% | 6.9% |
| 95 | St. Clair Shores | 95.00 | 58,140 | $73,500 | $227,950 | 8.4% | 4.4% |
| 96 | Oak Park | 97.50 | 29,318 | $71,510 | $232,982 | 12.0% | 10.8% |
| 97 | Marquette | 99.00 | 21,325 | $55,613 | $323,189 | 22.4% | 4.3% |
| 98 | Springfield | 99.50 | 5,269 | $44,808 | $419,638 | 19.1% | 9.7% |
| 99 | Greenville | 99.50 | 8,995 | $63,285 | $265,109 | 11.5% | 7.4% |
| 100 | Negaunee | 102.50 | 4,656 | $70,568 | $224,646 | 12.4% | 3.7% |
Source: U.S. Census ACS 2020-2024, Zillow research. 200 cities with more than 3,000 residents.
Bloomfield Hills is the richest place in Michigan for 2026
When we set out to identify the richest places in Michigan, we weren’t sure what we’d find, but it ended up being some of the best places to live in the state. The richest cities in Michigan are Bloomfield Hills, East Grand Rapids, and Huntington Woods, and when you look at the data they sit at the very top of the income ladder for everyone who lives there.
Breaking into the top ten takes a median household income of at least $111,750. If you’re curious about the other end of the ledger, the poorest places are listed to the right. Not sold on Michigan? Take the two-minute Find Your Place quiz and see which state actually fits you.
Questions and answers
Richest Cities In Michigan FAQs
What is the richest city in Michigan?
Bloomfield Hills is the richest city in Michigan for 2026. The median household income in Bloomfield Hills is $189,942, the median home value is $663,115, and the poverty rate sits at 3.9%. East Grand Rapids and Huntington Woods round out the top three.
Where do the richest people live in Michigan?
The richest people in Michigan live in Bloomfield Hills, East Grand Rapids, and Huntington Woods, based on income and home value data from the American Community Survey. Every place in the top ten posts a median household income of at least $111,750.
How much money do you need to be considered rich in Michigan?
You need a household income around $111,750 to keep up in the ten richest places in Michigan. That is the lowest median income in the top ten; the highest is $190,150. The statewide median is $72,875.
How expensive are homes in the richest cities in Michigan?
The median home value across the ten richest cities in Michigan is $562,580, compared to $259,857 statewide. In Bloomfield Hills, the typical home runs $663,115.
What is the poorest city in Michigan?
Flint is the poorest city in Michigan. It ranks last of the 200 places we analyzed on income and home value.
