How much are homes in Wixom?

The current median sale price is $360K, with 24 active listings and 41 homes sold in the last 90 days. Prices swing by neighborhood and home age, so ask us for a comp-based number on a specific property.

How far is Wixom from downtown Detroit?

About 30 miles, or a 35 to 40 minute drive on I-96 in normal traffic. Rush hour stretches it.

What school district is Wixom in?

Most of the city is in Walled Lake Consolidated Schools. The southwest corner is South Lyon Community Schools and a small southern part is Novi Community School District. Always confirm by address.

Is Wixom a good place to live?

It works well for commuters and families who want newer homes and freeway access without a big-city price. It's more suburban-practical than historic-charming, which suits some buyers better than others.

What's the housing like in Wixom?

Mostly newer than the surrounding county: single-family subdivisions, ranch condos, and townhomes, with some older homes mixed in.

Neighborhood guideOakland County

Photo: Wixom Michigan City Offices.JPG (CC BY 3.0)

Living in Wixom, MI: A Local’s Guide

Wixom is a city of about 17,000 people in western Oakland County, incorporated as a city in 1958. It sits along I-96 roughly 30 miles northwest of downtown Detroit, which puts the drive in the 35 to 40 minute range outside of rush hour. The people who buy here are usually after that mix: a quieter, newer-feeling community with a short freeway shot to jobs in Detroit, Novi, Farmington Hills, and the western suburbs. Manufacturing built this town, and a few well-known companies still run their plants and headquarters from here.

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What Wixom is known for

Three things, really.

First, manufacturing. Wixom was home to the Ford Wixom Assembly Plant, which ran from 1957 to 2007 before it closed and was demolished. The town hasn't lost its industrial backbone, though. Trijicon, the firearms optics maker, is headquartered here on Shafer Court, and Discraft, the disc golf and Frisbee manufacturer, runs its plant and headquarters on Grand River Avenue.

Second, its position on I-96. The freeway runs straight through the city, which is the whole reason commuters and companies keep choosing it.

Third, the redevelopment around Pontiac Trail near the city offices, where Wixom has been building a more pedestrian-friendly center. It's a city that's actively reworking what it used to be.

Practical and low-drama. A lot of the housing stock is newer than what you'll find in older Oakland County towns, so you get subdivisions, condos, and townhome communities alongside some older neighborhoods. It feels suburban rather than small-town historic. The trade you make is convenience over walkable downtown charm: you'll drive to most things, but you're never far from a freeway ramp, and Novi's shopping and restaurants are minutes away.

Wixom, by the numbers

median sale price

$360K

avg days on market

26

price yoy

+2.9%

active listings

24

Prices in Wixom vary a lot by pocket, since a newer townhome in a planned community and an older single-family home on a larger lot are different markets even inside the same city. The number a portal shows you for "Wixom" is a citywide average, not what your specific home is worth. For a real figure, we'll run comps on recent nearby sales and walk you through it. No algorithm, no obligation.

Getting around

I-96 is the spine. It runs east to west through the city and connects you to Detroit, Lansing, and the rest of metro Detroit's freeway grid. Wixom Road is the main north-south arterial and the primary freeway interchange. Pontiac Trail and Grand River Avenue carry most of the local east-west traffic. For commuters, the headline is the freeway access: downtown Detroit is about 30 miles and a 35 to 40 minute drive in normal traffic, and Novi, Farmington Hills, and the I-275 corridor are all closer than that.

Things to do in Wixom

Disc golf, fittingly. Discraft is based here, and the sport has deep roots in the area.

The Wixom Village Center area near Pontiac Trail and the city offices, the city's effort at a gathering-space downtown.

Quick trips to Novi for the Twelve Oaks Mall and the restaurant strip along Grand River and Novi Road, a few minutes east.

Proximity to the Kensington Metropark area to the northwest, around Milford in the same county, for hiking, the lake, and the nature center.

Is Wixom a good place to buy?

For the right buyer, yes. If you want newer housing, a short freeway commute, and a lower fuss profile than the historic-downtown suburbs, Wixom fits. The honest tradeoff is character: this isn't a walkable main-street town with a century of homes, and some areas sit close to industrial and commercial corridors. If a walkable historic downtown is what you're after, look at towns built for that. If commute, schools, and newer construction top your list, Wixom is an easy one to like.

The homes

Wixom skews newer than its older Oakland County neighbors. You'll see a lot of late-20th-century and 21st-century construction: single-family subdivisions, ranch-style condos, and townhome communities, with pockets of older homes from the city's earlier decades mixed in. Larger planned communities sit alongside more modest established streets. If you want turnkey and newer, Wixom delivers more of that than most towns its age in the county.

Schools

Most of Wixom is served by Walled Lake Consolidated Schools. The far southwest corner falls inside South Lyon Community Schools, and a small southern slice is in Novi Community School District. Because three districts touch the city, school boundaries here are genuinely address-specific, so confirm the district and assigned schools for any home before you fall for it.

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