Grosse Pointe Farms, MI population, income and ZIP codes

Grosse Pointe Farms city is a mid-size town in Michigan, with 9,957 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #102 of 745 ranked by population — larger than 86% of them. The median age here is 51 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Grosse Pointe Farms city earn a median of $160,589 a year, 104.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and 160% above the $61,715 median for the 438 Michigan cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 2.6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Grosse Pointe Farms city is valued at $418,600, 38% above the national figure and 152% above the $166,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,500 a month, 6.7% above the national figure, or roughly $18,000 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 11.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 95.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 51 puts Grosse Pointe Farms city well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.