Residential Bingham Farms

About Residential Bingham Farms

Bingham Farms is one of Michigan’s smallest incorporated municipalities — roughly 1.5 square miles and a 2020 census population of about 1,124 — which makes the entire residential village function as a single, cohesive neighborhood. The settlement dates to 1823, when John Daniels of Rutland, Vermont, homesteaded the area, and it stayed rural and isolated until Telegraph Road was cut through in 1928. The village was formally incorporated on October 4, 1955, taking its name from the Bingham family, whose presence in the area dated to 1880. That late incorporation is a big part of why the village kept its low-density, tree-shaded character while neighboring communities densified.

The residential fabric sits west and east of Telegraph Road in a series of small, named subdivisions — Bingham Road Estates, Springland, Wilson Acres, Shagwood Estates, Bristol Farms, Bingham Pointe, Bingham Villas, Berkshire Woods, Bingham Woods, Franklin River Heights, and Brooks Park — that together total only a few hundred single-family homes and townhouses. Streets wind rather than grid, lots are generous by Metro Detroit standards, and the canopy of mature hardwoods is the defining visual signature. The scale is small enough that residents tend to know one another, and the housing stock ranges from mid-century ranches and colonials on wooded parcels to newer in-fill construction in the cluster subdivisions.

The single largest value driver here is school assignment: Bingham Farms is zoned to Birmingham Public Schools, with Bingham Farms Elementary located inside the village itself, then Berkshire Middle School and Groves High School completing the K–12 path. That access to the Birmingham district — without paying Birmingham proper’s lot prices — is the structural reason families target this address. The Birmingham municipal core, with its restaurants and walkable retail, is a short drive north on Woodward, and Beaumont Royal Oak (now part of Corewell Health) is a similarly short trip east for hospital-grade care.

Telegraph Road itself runs through the village as a notable suburban office corridor — the Bingham Farms Office District spans the east side of Telegraph from roughly 12½ Mile to 14 Mile and houses a meaningful share of the village’s daytime population in mid-rise office buildings. For residents, that corridor is a feature rather than a friction point: it sits on one edge, leaves the interior streets quiet, and gives the tiny village an outsized commercial tax base that helps keep municipal services well funded.