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Birmingham is an affluent city in Oakland County, Michigan, a northern suburb of Detroit located along the Woodward Corridor (M-1).

The area was settled in 1819 and the early crossroads settlement was known as 'Piety Hill,' where rival innkeepers John W. Hunter, John Hamilton and Elijah Willits competed for travelers on Woodward Avenue between Detroit and Pontiac.

Birmingham was named after Birmingham, England, when Rosewell T. Merrill recorded his plat in 1836, envisioning that the Michigan town would also become a great industrial center.

Birmingham incorporated as a village in 1864 and as a city in 1932.

Birmingham had a population of 21,813 at the 2020 census, living in 9,463 households packed into just 4.8 square miles, a density of about 4,550 people per square mile.

Birmingham sits on the route of the Woodward Dream Cruise, the annual August classic-car event that draws more than a million visitors and some 40,000 classic cars to Woodward Avenue.

Shain Park is Birmingham's main commons, hosting the Village Fair, art shows and summer concerts, with Marshall Fredericks' sculpture 'Freedom of the Human Spirit' at its center.

The city maintains more than twenty parks with golf courses, sledding hills, nature trails and deep woods.

Birmingham's public school district runs two high schools, Seaholm High School and Groves High School, both nationally recognized.

Birmingham's First United Methodist Church, whose congregation was founded in 1821, worships in a structure built in 1839 that is the oldest church building in the city.