Buying the median home in Bloomfield Hills means financing $1,100,000. Against the area's $165,000 median household income, that works out to a 6.7x price-to-income ratio.
Property taxes in Bloomfield Hills run 2.35% of assessed value, above the 1.1% national average. On the median home, that's $25,850 a year, or $2,154 added to the monthly payment.
Michigan levies a state income tax on top of the $8,287/month this mortgage runs. Model your real after-tax take-home before deciding how much payment you can carry.
Bloomfield Hills's cost of living index is 178, above the 100 national baseline. That's on top of the housing numbers above, not instead of them.
Bloomfield Hills's median home price runs 495% higher than nearby Detroit: $185,000 there versus $1,100,000 here.