How much are homes in Auburn Hills?

The median sale price is currently $290K, with homes averaging 21 days on the market. There are 43 active listings right now. Prices swing a lot depending on the neighborhood and which school district the home is zoned for, so the median is only a starting point.

How far is Auburn Hills from downtown Detroit?

About 32 miles, or a 35 to 40 minute drive straight down I-75 outside of rush hour. Expect closer to an hour in heavy traffic.

What school district is Auburn Hills in?

It depends on the address. The city is split across Avondale, Rochester Community Schools, Pontiac, and Lake Orion. Most of Auburn Hills is in Avondale. Always confirm by the specific home's address.

Is Auburn Hills a good place for families?

Yes, especially in the Avondale and Rochester portions of the city. You get newer homes, parks, and short drives to schools and shopping. Just verify which district a given home feeds before you commit.

What's the biggest employer in Auburn Hills?

Stellantis, whose North American headquarters and technology center sits on a 504-acre campus off I-75. The city also has a large cluster of automotive suppliers and tech offices along the highway, plus Oakland University.

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Living in Auburn Hills, MI: A Local’s Guide

Auburn Hills is a city of about 24,360 people in southeast Oakland County, sitting roughly 32 miles north of downtown Detroit, about a 35 to 40 minute drive down I-75. It's a working city more than a sleepy bedroom suburb. Big corporate campuses, a major university, and one of the largest shopping centers in the state all sit inside its borders, which means a lot of people who live here also work within a few miles of home. Buyers tend to be people tied to the auto and tech employers along the I-75 corridor, Oakland University staff and faculty, and families who want newer housing with quick highway access. The city is young by Michigan standards. It only incorporated as a city in 1983, when the village of Auburn Heights merged with what had been Pontiac Township.

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What Auburn Hills is known for

Three things, mostly.

First, it's Stellantis country. The North American headquarters and technology center for Stellantis (the company that builds Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram) sits on a 504-acre campus right off I-75 in Auburn Hills. It's one of the largest office buildings in the country by floor space, and it anchors a long stretch of office parks and supplier campuses along the highway.

Second, Oakland University. The public research university straddles the Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills line, with most of its academic and residential buildings on the Auburn Hills side. It enrolls around 20,000 students and brings athletics, performances, and a steady stream of campus events into the area.

Third, shopping. Great Lakes Crossing Outlets, off I-75 at Baldwin Road, is Michigan's largest indoor outlet mall. It runs more than 170 stores plus a Bass Pro Shops, a Sea Life aquarium, a Legoland Discovery Center, and a 25-screen movie theater. It pulls visitors from well outside the county.

Practical. The city is built around its highways and employment corridors, so day-to-day life leans on the car, not the sidewalk. You're rarely far from a grocery run, a big-box store, or a quick on-ramp. It doesn't have a dense walkable downtown the way Rochester or Royal Oak does, and it doesn't pretend to. What it offers instead is convenience and a short commute, plus pockets of newer subdivisions and apartment communities that fill up with university and corporate renters.

The flip side: parts of the city near the office parks and the mall stay busy, and traffic around Baldwin Road can back up on weekends and holidays. If you want quiet, you look toward the residential streets away from the I-75 frontage.

Auburn Hills, by the numbers

median sale price

$290K

avg days on market

21

price yoy

+3.6%

active listings

43

Prices vary a lot block to block here, more than the citywide number suggests. A condo near the mall and a four-bedroom colonial in a quiet subdivision aren't the same market, and a home zoned for Rochester schools can carry a different price than one a mile away zoned for Avondale or Pontiac. If you want a real number for a specific home, we'll pull recent comparable sales nearby and walk you through it. That's a person reading the comps, not an automated estimate.

Getting around

I-75 is the spine. It runs north to south through the city and connects you to downtown Detroit (about 32 miles, 35 to 40 minutes without traffic), to the Pontiac and Auburn Hills employment corridor, and north toward Flint. M-24, signed locally as Lapeer Road, meets I-75 at Exit 81 and carries traffic north into Lake Orion and Oxford. Baldwin Road (Exit 84) is the mall exit and gets busy. Surface roads like Opdyke and Squirrel carry most of the local traffic between neighborhoods, campuses, and the office parks. For most residents, the freeway is genuinely a few minutes away, which is a big part of why people move here.

Things to do in Auburn Hills

Shop and eat at Great Lakes Crossing Outlets, then let the kids burn off energy at Legoland Discovery Center or the Sea Life aquarium under the same roof.

Catch an Oakland University Golden Grizzlies game or a performance at the Meadow Brook venues on campus.

Walk the trails at Hawk Woods Nature Center.

Take in a show or a movie, then dinner along the Baldwin Road corridor.

Use the Clinton River and the city's parks for a quieter afternoon away from the retail strip.

Is Auburn Hills a good place to buy?

It is, if the things it's good at match what you want. The commute to the auto and tech jobs along I-75 is short, the housing is newer than most of southern Oakland County, and you've got a major university and Michigan's biggest outlet mall in your backyard. That's a strong package for working professionals, university staff, and families who value convenience.

The homes

Auburn Hills is a newer-housing city. Because it incorporated in 1983 and grew alongside the corporate campuses, a large share of its single-family stock is late-twentieth-century and newer: subdivisions of brick-and-vinyl colonials, ranches, and two-story homes, plus a heavy mix of condos, townhomes, and apartment communities built to house university and corporate renters. You'll find older, smaller homes in the former Auburn Heights pockets, but the city doesn't have the deep stock of pre-war housing you'd see in Pontiac or Ferndale. If you want newer construction with an attached garage and an easy commute, this is a place to look.

Schools

Auburn Hills is split across four districts, which is unusual and worth checking carefully. The bulk of the city sits in the Avondale School District, with the northeast corner in Rochester Community Schools, parts of the west and south in the Pontiac School District, and a sliver of the north in Lake Orion Community Schools. Avondale is the district most Auburn Hills families deal with, and it's known regionally for its diversity and its gifted-and-talented magnet program; Niche ranks it the most diverse district in Oakland County for 2026. Rochester Community Schools, which covers the northeast pocket, posts some of the higher test scores in the area.

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