The Local Pages · Oakland County Edition
Troy, Oakland County
Oakland County's largest community pairs a world-class job base with one of Michigan's highest-regarded school districts, making it the suburb of choice for professionals.
Troy is the business address of Southeast Michigan: home to international corporate headquarters, a dense office corridor along Big Beaver and the entire 1-75 freeway, and a daytime population that swells far past its roughly 87,000 residents. Incorporated as a city in 1955, it grew from a farm township into the largest community in Oakland County.
The schools are the other headline. Troy School District, serving most of the city, is routinely counted among the state's best, and the city's edges touch several other respected districts, six in all according to the city. That combination of jobs and schools makes Troy the default landing spot for relocating professionals, from engineers to healthcare executives.
The housing stock runs heavily to well-built 1980s and 1990s brick colonials on quiet loops, with pockets of new construction, teardown rebuilds, and condos for every stage of life. Trackers put the median sale price around $472,000 with inventory moving in about three weeks.
Raquel works regularly with Troy buyers and sellers, including corporate relocations into the city and empty nesters selling the big brick colonial for a condo downtown or a ranch in the newer communities to the north.
