Housing in Bagley at a glance
- Population
- about 14,598
- Housing units
- about 6,301
- Median value, owner-occupied homes
- $167,000Detroit: $83,900 (+99%)
- Median gross rent
- $1,210 a monthDetroit: $1,074 (+13%)
- Owner-occupied homes
- 64.5%Detroit: 50.3%
- Homes built before 1980
- 99.3%
- Median year built
- 1942
Bagley leads Detroit on owner estimates, rent and owner-occupancy all at once. Owners put their homes at $167,000, far over Detroit's $83,900, and renters pay $1,210 in monthly rent against $1,074. Owners are 64.5% of households, well past the 50.3% figure for the city. Nearly every home is old, since 99.3% date from earlier than 1980 and the median build year is 1942. The sector lies north of the city's centre, and its neighbours trail it clearly on value: Crary/St Marys with $110,000, Brightmoor with $69,000, and Barton-McFarland with $64,000, which has rents of $1,160 but a lower owner share of 54.3%. Bagley's lead over those neighbours is large on every one of the measures shown in the data box above,, which is rare in a city where values vary so much from one area to the next. With 14,598 residents it is mid-sized, but its values are not.
Questions about Bagley
What is the median home value in Bagley, Detroit?
$167,000 for owner-occupied homes, against $83,900 for Detroit as a whole (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary). It is the owners' own estimate of their home's value, not a sale price.
What is the median rent in Bagley?
$1,210 a month in gross rent (rent plus utilities paid by the renter), against $1,074 in Detroit (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary).
Do most people in Bagley own or rent?
Most own: 64.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, against 50.3% in Detroit (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary).
Data and method
Data as of: American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, U.S. Census Bureau (retrieved 2026-11-02).
Estimate from the 3 census tracts whose internal point lies within the official boundary: counts are summed, and each median is recomputed from the summed value, rent and year-built brackets (grouped median, linear interpolation). The gap with the city is measured with the same method on the whole city.
Bagley is one of the 10 most populous of 205 neighborhoods of Detroit: estimated population about 14,598 (Payotte estimate: Census ACS 2020-2024 populations of the census tracts whose internal point lies inside the boundary; boundaries from City of Detroit Open Data, Current City of Detroit Neighborhoods, consulted 2026-11-02).
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, tables B01003, B25001, B25003, B25034, B25063, B25064, B25075, B25077; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer files (census tract internal points). City figures: the same survey, published for Detroit as a whole. Home values are owners' estimates, not sale prices.
Near Bagley
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Five trades, one spot each
Payotte lists one professional per trade in Bagley. No one is listed yet: every spot is open.
- Real estate agentOpen spot
- Mortgage loan officerOpen spot
- Home inspectorOpen spot
- Real estate attorneyOpen spot
- AppraiserOpen spot
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