48335Farmington Hills, Michigan

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 48335.

70out of 100
Area Score
Top 16% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 28% of 6,210 ZIP areas measured66
SchoolsTop 27% of 4,422 ZIP areas measured70
Growth4609th of 5,428 ZIP areas measured29
Housing affordabilityTop 34% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured89
Climate5630th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured61
Physical resilienceTop 5% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured94
AccessTop 45% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured94
Economic stabilityTop 27% of 6,742 ZIP areas measured72
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.8% and median household income $99,439, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 48335 in the top 5% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 18 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
25,077
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$99,439
Top 19% nationally
Density
3,474/sq mi
7.2 sq mi of land
Median age
35.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Farmington Hills
Michigan
Metro area
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
Nearest major airport
DTW
18 mi · Detroit Metro Wayne County
Median home value
$391,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.8% is lower than 35% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 1.2% over the past year, to 44,533 employed residents.

65% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 95% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$7,660$99,439Top 19%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,531$55,007Top 14%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate7.2%Bottom 32%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute26.6 minBottom 44%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher64.6%Top 5%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment44,533Bottom 44%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.1%Bottom 49%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)1.2%Top 11%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force46,783Bottom 44%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation69.8%Top 15%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$69,210Top 44%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$52,080Top 38%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.6%Top 27%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate4.8%Top 35%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202499k90k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $99,439 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators55,100$49,240
Retail Salespersons48,610$35,130
Home Health and Personal Care Aides46,480$35,120
Registered Nurses44,310$97,280
Fast Food and Counter Workers42,430$29,590
Cashiers37,910$30,090

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Farmington Hills, MI, the city containing this ZIP code.

50% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 58% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.2 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
50.2%
Top 20% in Michigan
Reading proficiency
57.7%
Top 28% in Michigan
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Hillside Elementary SchoolFarmington Public School District68217.553%49%
Power Middle SchoolFarmington Public School District62115.147%72%
Gill Elementary SchoolFarmington Public School District54317.537%43%
Longacre Elementary SchoolFarmington Public School District44315.866%69%
Oakland FlexTech High School · charterOakland FlexTech High School16213.5

22.5% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Michigan’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 2% below the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $1,502 takes 18% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.9 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Cost of living
98.2

Prices here run about 2% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Rent as a share of income
18.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,502
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$391,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index98.2Bottom 43%of 6,0712023
Home price to income3.94Top 30%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate43.8%Bottom 7%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±53612,219Top 12%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$53$1,502Top 22%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$20,841$391,500Top 21%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.1%Top 47%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate8.6%Bottom 40%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
29/ 100
Ranks 4609 of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
19
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.2
Bottom 10% nationally
Year over year
−14%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Farmington Hills, MI, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 82°F and January a low of 17°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 29.2 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 45, in the Good band, and one day a year passes 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station PONTIAC OAKLAND CO INTL AP, 14.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND3.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index70.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation29.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low17°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high82°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10012024 calendar year
Median air quality index45.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing49°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
45
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
70
90th percentile index
Days above 100
1
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

94 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are tornado, heat wave and strong wind.

TornadoModerate
Ice stormModerate
Strong windModerate
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: cold wave, inland flooding, hail, winter weather, earthquake, lightning, landslide, wildfire, hurricane.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Oakland County records 3.1 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 7.2 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 10.6 per 100,000 residents in Oakland County.

Homicide
3.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
7.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
10.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
9.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Oakland County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 48335 rather than 48335 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 18 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Detroit Metro Wayne CountyDTW18 mi12,003 ft
Capital Region IntlLAN64 mi8,506 ft
Eugene F Kranz Toledo ExpressTOL64 mi10,600 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

48335 vs Farmington Hills

How this ZIP area compares with Farmington Hills as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

48335
Farmington Hills
Median household income
$99,439
vs
$104,836
Per capita income
$55,007
vs
$56,976
Population density
3,474/sq mi
vs
2,510/sq mi
Median home value
$391,500
vs
$354,500
Median gross rent
$1,502
vs
$1,551
Homeownership rate
43.8%
vs
64.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher
64.6%
vs
57.6%
Poverty rate
7.2%
vs
7.6%
Median age
35.5
vs
42.6

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.