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A town of 17,313, settled in 1872.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Wixom grades B+ overall, 198th among Michigan's 697 graded towns. It has 14 miles of trail. Its schools outperform 88% of the state's and CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 86% of the country. What holds it back is price: the typical home is worth about $383K, 5 years of the Detroit metro’s $77K median household income. Wixom’s trail density is 1.5 miles per square mile, where Michigan’s towns sit at 0.3 and U.S. towns at 0.4. Detroit Finnish Co-operative Summer Camp is on the National Register of Historic Places. Among 701 Michigan towns, just 9 have a lower share of households owning their home than Wixom.
Where Wixom beats most towns.
13,498 counted in 2010 and 17,193 in 2020; an estimated 17,313 in 2025.
Growth has leveled off: within 1% of 2020, after 27.4% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Wixom is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,531 in 1960, 17,193 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 2010 and 7 maps from 1909 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Wixom. Close and well known come first.
Big draw21 mi Stadium & arenaMichigan Stadium
Big draw28 mi Stadium & arenaFord Field
28 mi Stadium & arenaComerica Park
21 mi MuseumThe Henry Ford1.8M visitors a year
28 mi TheatreFox Theatre9 mi MuseumMarvin's Marvelous Mechanical MuseumMichigan Stadium: Lectrician2, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ford Field: Unknown, CC BY 2.5 · Comerica Park: City of Detroit, Public domain · The Henry Ford: Alvintrusty, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fox Theatre: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Wixom, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
Ordered by what stands out in Wixom.
Wixom draws workers from Commerce Township and beyond and has less tooth loss than most of Michigan, but it reports more crime than Novi and its other graded neighbors.
The biggest park or preserve is Wixom Habitat, at 344 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lyon Oaks County Park | 2.9 mi | 249 |
| 2. Gilbert Willis Memorial Park | 1.6 mi | 46 |
| 3. Gunnar Mettala Park | 0.7 mi | 66 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its A for schools comes with a C− for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $383K.
Its public schools are run by the Walled Lake Consolidated Schools. Three of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah G Banks Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 597 | B+ |
| St. Catherine of Siena Academy PrivateLargest high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 216 | – |
| Loon Lake Elementary SchoolTop results in townGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 496 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MI on state tests and graduation
15,234 jobs are based in Wixom, 2 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 10,123 in 2011 to 15,234.
Most working residents leave Wixom for work: only 8% work in town. Since 2011, Wixom has added 5,111 jobs, to 15,234 in 2021. At $65,000, Wixom’s median household income is below both the Michigan town median ($77,000) and the median of U.S. towns ($80,000).
| Wixom | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 14% | 10% | 11% |
| Median household income | $65,000 | $77,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 8.9% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
Its widest gap with Michigan is tooth loss: 6.3% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 10.2% statewide.
11% of Wixom adults report frequent physical distress. Wixom beats the Michigan average on 19 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 8.4% of Wixom adults have diabetes.
| Wixom | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 14% | 14% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 8.4% | 12% | 12% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 36% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 25% | 25% |
| What stands out | Wixom | MI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 6.3% | 10.2% |
| Fewer adults who have had a stroke | 2.3% | 3.7% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 72.7% | 77.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median property tax bill is $4,673, against $2,904 across Michigan, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The typical Wixom home is worth about $383,000, up 1.4% in a year, 45% above the Michigan typical home.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 87% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Wixom has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 82°, January nights drop to 16° and about 36 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Wixom is safe by national standards, yet each of the 3 graded towns on its borders reports less crime per resident, from Novi (B+) to Lyon Township (A). Reported crimes fell from 243 to 173 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
The violent crime rate in Wixom is 1.1 per 1,000 residents.
| Wixom | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.1 per 1,000 residents | 1.9 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 8.8 per 1,000 residents | 7.8 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
6 within 15 miles of the center of Wixom
About 5 of every 100 Wixom residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Michigan.
Where Wixom’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
City in Michigan, United States
Wixom ( WIK-səm) is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A northwestern suburb of Detroit, Wixom is located roughly 30 miles (48.3 km) from downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 17,193. The city was home to the now-demolished Wixom Assembly Plant, which operated from 1957–2007. The city is also home to several production and manufacturing businesses, including Trijicon, Discraft, NGK, Rockwell Medical and Majic Window.
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4 towns share a border with Wixom.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wixom | #198 | B+ | C− | B | A | A |
| Commerce Township | #85 | A | C− | A− | A | A |
| Novi | #55 | A | D | B+ | A+ | A+ |
| Lyon Township | #33 | A+ | D | A | A | A |
| Milford Township | #211 | B+ | D | — | A− | A |
Milford Township reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Wixom with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Wixom grades B+ overall, better than 74% of U.S. towns and #198 of 697 in Michigan. It grades A for health, B for safety and A for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
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