Bloomfield Hills, Michigan City of Bloomfield Hills Official seal of City of Bloomfield Hills Bloomfield Hills is a town/city located in Metro Detroit's northern suburbs in Oakland County in the U.S.
The town/city is almost completely surrounded by Bloomfield Township.
On June 28, 1820, Oakland County was divided into two townships: Pontiac Township and Bloomfield Township, the latter covering the southern part of the county that would include West Bloomfield Township, Royal Oak and Southfield.
What is now Bloomfield Hills was a farming region until the turn of the 20th century when wealthy Detroit inhabitants bought up the land.
Bloomfield Hills is the locale of the National Historic Landmark Cranbrook Educational Community and other historic sites listed on the nationwide register of historic places.
In prominent culture, Bloomfield Hills was the setting for the 2005 film The Upside of Anger.
Bloomfield Hills is the hometown of the comic book character, Trance.
Some scenes in Out of Sight with Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney were filmed at a private residence in Bloomfield Hills.
(In the novel by Elmore Leonard on which the film is based, the most prominent street in Bloomfield Hills is described as "Vaughan Road, nothing but cash.") Jimmy Hoffa was last seen at the former Machus Red Fox restaurant in adjoining Bloomfield Township.
The novel Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake is set in a private school in Bloomfield.
The region is the home of landmark churches including Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian on Long Lake Rd (Bloomfield Township) and Christ Church Cranbrook Episcopal, consecrated in 1928 as part of George Booth's plan for the Cranbrook Educational Community. The Congregational Church of Birmingham United Church of Christ was established in Birmingham but moved to its present locale in at 1000 Cranbrook Road (at Woodward Avenue) in Bloomfield Hills in 1966. St.
George Greek Orthodox, Bloomfield Hills Baptist, Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church (ELCA) on Adams Road (Bloomfield Township), Detroit Michigan Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Birmingham Unitarian Church on Woodward Avenue. Acme Group, consisting of Acme Mills, Great Lakes Filters, and Fairway Products, is headquartered in Bloomfield Hills. Other companies headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, MI include Taubman Centers, Tri - Mas Corp., Larson Realty Group, Princeton Enterprises, Pulte - Group, Inc., TIP Capital, Bloomfield Hills Bancorp, Reverie, Black - Eagle Partners, Gregory J.
Keyes, Bloomfield Hills estate of John Bugas According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.04 square miles (13.05 km2), of which 4.96 square miles (12.85 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.21 km2) is water. As of the 2005 2009 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, there were 3,774 citizens , 1,570 homeholds, and about 1,382 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 19.7% under the age of 18, 3.8% from 18 to 24, 13.8% from 25 to 44, 39.0% from 45 to 64, and 23.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Bloomfield Hills has the third highest income for a municipality with over 1,000 homeholds in the nation and the highest income in the state of Michigan, 39% of owner-occupied homes had a value of over $1,000,000 and 32.1% with a value between $500,000 to $999,999. Most of the town/city is served by the Bloomfield Hills School District (BHSD), a enhance school precinct based in neighboring Bloomfield Township, comprising the City of Bloomfield Hills, most of Bloomfield Township, and small parts of neighboring communities such as Auburn Hills, Troy, and West Bloomfield Township.
The sole precinct elected high school is Bloomfield Hills High School, formed in 2013 by the consolidation s of Andover High School and Lahser High School. The Bloomfield Hills precinct administers the International Academy, a tuition-free, enhance consortium high school in Bloomfield Township that hosts students from ten different enhance schools districts (including some Bloomfield Hills School District students).
A southern portion of Bloomfield Hills resides in the Birmingham City School District. The Bloomfield Hills region is also home to many private schools.
The town/city limits include the nonsectarian Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook Academy of Art, St.
Hugo of the Hills Catholic School, and the The Roeper School.
The neighboring communities of Bloomfield Township and Beverly Hills have two single-sex Catholic schools: Brother Rice High School for boys and Marian High School for girls, as well as the private college-preparatory school Detroit Country Day School, Academy of the Sacred Heart. After the Japanese School of Detroit was formed in 1973, it initially held its classes at Cranbrook School Brookside. Bloomfield Hills is home to the Cranbrook Academy of Art, one of the nation's dominant graduate schools of architecture, art and design.
The chief offices of Oakland Community College are in Bloomfield Hills. Main article: List of citizens from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan "City of Bloomfield Hills".
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Christ Church Cranbrook web site Archived July 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Bloomfield Hills High School.
"Bloomfield Hills High School Main Campus 3456 Lahser Road Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302" and "Bloomfield Hills High School 9th Grade Campus 2800 Lahser Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302" a b "Bloomfield Township Street Map." (Archive) Bloomfield Township, Oakland County.
Birmingham City School District.
"Bloomfield Township Street Map." (Archive) Bloomfield Township, Oakland County.
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