Best PlacesGrosse Ile, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Grosse Ile, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Grosse Ile ranks 3,178th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Grosse Ile
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Grosse Ile's strengths and weaknesses
Where Grosse Ile ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 98% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 97% of towns
- Household income$137,501 median, better than 96% of towns
- BikingBetter than 96% of towns
Where Grosse Ile ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 8% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 9% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 19% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 22% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Grosse Ile
A household needs to earn about $109,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Grosse Ile home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $137,501, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Grosse Ile's effective rate of 1.62%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Grosse Ile
Grosse Ile runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Grosse Ile.
Who works in Grosse Ile, and how
Work in Grosse Ile centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 78%
- Work from home 17%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Grosse Ile
Grosse Ile has more restaurants and bars per resident than 92% of towns and more parkland per resident than 90% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Grosse Ile and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Grosse Ile, month by month
Grosse Ile sees roughly 82 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 83 degrees. January highs sit near 34, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34° | 28° | 23° |
| April | 57° | 47° | 39° |
| July | 83° | 74° | 66° |
| October | 63° | 55° | 48° |
Flying in and out of Grosse Ile
Detroit Metro Wayne County sits about 12 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 16.3 million passengers in 2025, with 168 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Grosse Ile
Schools across Grosse Ile average a B, better than 70% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Meridian Elementary SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
- Parsons Elementary SchoolB− · 40% proficient
- Richard C Hedke Elem SchoolC+ · 37% proficient
Top middle schools
- Grosse Ile Middle SchoolB · 44% proficient
- Boyd W Arthurs Middle SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
- Shumate Middle SchoolC · 31% proficient
Top high schools
- Grosse Ile High SchoolB · 50% proficient
- Trenton High SchoolC+ · 40% proficient
- Roosevelt High SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Grosse Ile school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Grosse Ile measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Grosse Ile against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Grosse Ile
Is Grosse Ile a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Grosse Ile ranks 3,178th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, civic engagement, and what local pay buys, and lowest on car insurance costs and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Grosse Ile expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $375,800. The overall cost of living runs about 4% below the national average. Set against a $137,501 median income, cost of living beats 97% of towns.
Is Grosse Ile safe?
Yes, Grosse Ile is safer than 76% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $238 per resident a year.
Compare Grosse Ile with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Grosse Ile. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Grosse Ile represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Grosse Ile detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Grosse Ile: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Grosse Ile: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Grosse Ile: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Grosse Ile: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Grosse Ile detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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