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About Pleasant Ridge

City in Michigan, United States
1913Established
2,627Population
0.6 sq miArea
640 ftElevation

Pleasant Ridge is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An inner-ring suburb of Detroit on the Woodward Corridor, Pleasant Ridge is located roughly 11 miles (17.7 km) northwest of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 2,627. With a land area of 0.57 square miles (1.48 km2), Pleasant Ridge is the fifth-smallest city by land area in the state of Michigan after the cities of Sylvan Lake, Keego Harbor, Petersburg, and Clarkston.

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ZIP code48069
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Housing in Pleasant Ridge

$490K▲ 4.8% in a year Typical home value · Zillow

The typical Pleasant Ridge home is worth about $490,000, up 4.8% in a year, 84% above the Michigan typical home.

A strong seller's market

Buyer’sBalancedSeller’s
Days on market7
Sale-to-list100.9%
Sold in May7
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Safety Grade A-

Pleasant Ridge reports less crime per resident than 78% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.

Violent crime per 1,000
Pleasant Ridge 0.8
Michigan 4.3
U.S. 3.3
Property crime per 1,000
Pleasant Ridge 3.1
Michigan 13
U.S. 15.5
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