Best PlacesGrosse Pointe Farms, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Grosse Pointe Farms, 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 Pointe Farms ranks 643rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Grosse Pointe Farms
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 Pointe Farms' strengths and weaknesses
Where Grosse Pointe Farms ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Household income$174,662 median, better than 99% of towns
Where Grosse Pointe Farms ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 6% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 17% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 20% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 22% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Grosse Pointe Farms
A household needs to earn about $147,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Grosse Pointe Farms home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $174,662, 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 Pointe Farms' effective rate of 1.74%, 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 Pointe Farms
Grosse Pointe Farms runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Grosse Pointe Farms.
Who works in Grosse Pointe Farms, and how
Work in Grosse Pointe Farms centers on manufacturing and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 73%
- Work from home 24%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Grosse Pointe Farms
Grosse Pointe Farms has more restaurants and bars per resident than 96% of towns and more parkland per resident than 90% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Grosse Pointe Farms and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Grosse Pointe Farms, month by month
Grosse Pointe Farms sees roughly 79 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 36, with lows near 21. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 36° | 28° | 21° |
| April | 61° | 49° | 38° |
| July | 87° | 76° | 65° |
| October | 66° | 56° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Grosse Pointe Farms
Detroit Metro Wayne County sits about 27 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 Pointe Farms
Schools across Grosse Pointe Farms average an A−, better than 84% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Richard Elementary SchoolA · 63% proficient
- Kerby Elementary SchoolA− · 60% proficient
- John Monteith Elementary SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
Top middle schools
- Brownell Middle SchoolA− · 55% proficient
Top high schools
- Grosse Pointe South High SchoolA− · 63% proficient
- Grosse Pointe North High SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Grosse Pointe Farms school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Grosse Pointe Farms 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 Pointe Farms against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Grosse Pointe Farms
Is Grosse Pointe Farms a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Grosse Pointe Farms ranks 643rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, health care access, 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 Pointe Farms expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $499,431. The overall cost of living runs about 1% above the national average. Set against a $174,662 median income, cost of living beats 100% of towns.
Is Grosse Pointe Farms safe?
Grosse Pointe Farms is safer than 20% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $481 per resident a year.
Compare Grosse Pointe Farms with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Grosse Pointe Farms. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Grosse Pointe Farms 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 Pointe Farms detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Grosse Pointe Farms: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Grosse Pointe Farms: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Grosse Pointe Farms: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Grosse Pointe Farms: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Grosse Pointe Farms 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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