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Pleasant Ridge is a small city in Oakland County, Michigan, an inner-ring suburb of Detroit on the Woodward Corridor, about 11 miles northwest of downtown Detroit.

Pleasant Ridge began in 1913 when Burt Taylor subdivided the Mayday farm; it incorporated as a village within Royal Oak Township in 1921 and became an autonomous city in 1927.

Pleasant Ridge's name is believed to derive from Ridge Road, the thoroughfare following the slight ridge that runs through the city.

At just 0.57 square miles, all of it land, Pleasant Ridge is the fifth-smallest city by land area in Michigan, and its 2020 density of about 4,609 people per square mile is among the state's highest.

Pleasant Ridge had 2,627 residents in the 2020 census, up slightly from 2,526 in 2010 after decades of slow decline from its 1970 peak of 3,989.

Pleasant Ridge boomed in a single decade after incorporation, exploding from 472 residents in 1920 to 2,885 in 1930.

Pleasant Ridge had 1,111 households in the 2020 census, and the city is split by Woodward Avenue (M-1): the Pleasant Ridge Historic District west of Woodward holds spacious homes, while the more modest Pleasant Ridge East Historic District lies east of it.

One of Pleasant Ridge's most famous establishments was Hedge's Wigwam, a Native American-themed cafeteria restaurant at 10 Mile Road and Woodward that operated from 1927 until 1967.

Pleasant Ridge was a dry community for most of its history, until its city council approved the first bar on December 1, 2009.

Pleasant Ridge fought the construction of Interstate 696 in the early 1960s; today I-696 forms the city's entire northern border, with the Detroit Zoo directly across the freeway.