These Are The 25 Best Detroit Area Suburbs To Buy A Home: Ranking

If you're looking to buy a home in the metro Detroit area, you might want to consider these suburbs.

Niche’s 2025 Best Suburbs to Buy a House rankings take a data-driven look at which areas offer the strongest mix of affordability, livability and housing stability.

The annual rankings look at 136 suburbs across the metro Detroit area, weighing home values, property taxes, school performance and community safety.

Niche said it compiles its grades using dozens of public datasets and millions of verified reviews from residents, students, and parents. The goal is to provide accurate, comparable, and credible insights into community livability and housing value.

Factors Considered In The “Best Places To Buy A House” Grade

Niche’s Best Places to Buy a House ranking measures the overall quality and stability of an area’s housing market. The formula assigns different weights to 13 core factors:

• Home value-to-income ratio (15 percent)
• Public schools grade (15 percent)
• Median monthly housing cost (10 percent)
• Cost of living (7.5 percent)
• Median home value (7.5 percent)
• Percent change in median home value (7.5 percent)
• Crime and safety (5 percent)
• Property tax rate (5 percent)
• Homeownership rate (5 percent)
• Home-buying-age newcomers (5 percent)
• Monthly housing cost-to-income ratio (5 percent)
• Residents ages 25–44 (5 percent)

Most data comes from the U.S. Census Bureau and represents the most recent figures available.

2025 Best Suburbs To Buy A House In The Detroit Area

1. Berkley – Overall Grade: A+ | Population: 15,084
2. Beverly Hills - A+ | 10,507
3. Grosse Pointe Woods - A+ | 16,177
4. Huntington Woods - A+ | 6,322
5. Northville - A+ | 6,080
6. Grosse Pointe Farms - A+ | 9,957
7. Superior Charter Township - A | 14,906
8. Troy - A+ | 87,307
9. Brighton Township - A |19,254
10. Grosse Pointe - A+ | 5,561
11. York Charter Township - A | 9,123
12. Farmington - A+ |11,472
13. Green Oak Township - A | 19,708
14. Oakland Charter Township - A+ | 20,099
15. Rochester Hills - A+ | 76,086
16. Northville Township - A+ | 31,393
17. Royal Oak - A+ | 57,880
18. Lyon Charter Township - A | 23,953
19. Pleasant Ridge - A+ | 2,607
20. Plymouth Charter Township - A+ | 27,594
21. Novi - A+ | 66,224
22. Rochester - A+ | 12,939
23. Livonia - A | 94,058
24. Grosse Ile Township - A | 10,603
25. South Lyon - A | 11,825

National Standouts

Nationwide, Niche reviewed 9,451 suburbs for its 2025 rankings. The top communities in America include

1. Hazel Green, Alabama
2. Sturgeon, Pennsylvania
3. Madison, Alabama
4. Meadowbrook, Alabama
5. Pittsboro, Indiana
6. Larkin Charter Township, Michigan
7. South Vacherie, Louisiana
8. Centerton, Arkansas
9. Shavertown, Pennsylvania
10. Dunlap, Illinois

These national leaders shared many of the same traits as Michigan's top suburbs: strong schools, steady home values, and affordable property taxes.