Best PlacesWixom, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Wixom, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Wixom ranks 5,510th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on biking by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Wixom
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.
Wixom's strengths and weaknesses
Where Wixom ranks high
- BikingBetter than 99% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 98% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 96% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 96% of towns
- TransitBetter than 94% of towns
Where Wixom ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 10% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 19% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 22% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 29% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Wixom
A household needs to earn about $90,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Wixom home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $90,111, 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 Wixom's effective rate of 1.21%, 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 Wixom
Wixom's age mix sits close to the national median, 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 Wixom.
Who works in Wixom, and how
Work in Wixom 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 82%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Wixom
Wixom has more restaurants and bars per resident than 71% of towns and more parkland per resident than 86% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Wixom and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Wixom, month by month
Wixom sees roughly 97 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 33, with lows near 18. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 33° | 26° | 18° |
| April | 60° | 47° | 35° |
| July | 85° | 74° | 62° |
| October | 64° | 53° | 43° |
Flying in and out of Wixom
Detroit Metro Wayne County sits about 24 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 Wixom
Schools across Wixom average a B, better than 67% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Deerfield Elementary SchoolA+ · 78% proficient
- Parkview Elementary SchoolA · 70% proficient
- Sharon J Hardy Elementary SchoolB+ · 51% proficient
Top middle schools
- Novi Middle SchoolA · 66% proficient
- James R Geisler Middle SchoolB · 46% proficient
- Oak Valley Middle SchoolB · 44% proficient
Top high schools
- Novi High SchoolA− · 66% proficient
- Walled Lake Western High SchoolB · 50% proficient
- South Lyon East High SchoolB · 48% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Wixom school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Wixom 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 Wixom against the other 50,332 towns.
Who Wixom suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 72% of towns, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 14% already work from home.
Retirees
The weather beats 66% of towns and health care access beats 64%.
Common questions about living in Wixom
Is Wixom a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Wixom ranks 5,510th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on biking, few empty homes, and heat safety, and lowest on car insurance costs and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Wixom expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $325,842. The overall cost of living runs about 5% below the national average. Set against a $90,111 median income, cost of living beats 72% of towns.
Is Wixom safe?
Yes, Wixom is safer than 69% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $284 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Wixom?
July highs average about 85 degrees, and January highs near 33 with lows near 18. That works out to about 97 pleasant days a year, more than 66% of towns.
Is Wixom good for families?
Schools beat 67% of towns, crime safety beats 69%, and childcare runs $916 a month.
Compare Wixom with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Wixom. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Wixom 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.
Wixom detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Wixom: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Wixom: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Wixom: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Wixom: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Wixom 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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