Midwest · Michigan · pop 630K
Detroit, MI
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in MI, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,128 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,003 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,774 left over.
Expect summer highs near 83°F, winter lows around 20°F, and about 180 sunny days a year.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($75,000) is about 2.0× the median household income.
Tradeoff: the local job market is softer than most on this list (6.7% unemployment).
The Detroit fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,354/mo
Typical rent
$1,180/mo
Home value ÷ income
2.0×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $990/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,180/mo
- Median home value
- $75,000
- Median household income
- $37,000
- Population
- 630,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 6.7%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.3%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 2,000
- Property crime rate
- 4,400
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 83°F
- Avg. winter low
- 20°F
- Sunny days / year
- 180
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈4/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈40/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈11/yr
- Annual rain
- 34"
- Annual snow
- 43"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+28
- Int'l airport
- ≈20 mi
- Walkability
- 51/100
- Disaster risk
- 30/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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