Ferndale
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city in Oakland County, Michigan, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- County
- Oakland
- Incorporated
- 1918 (village), 7 March 1927 (city)
- Type
- Council–manager
- Mayor
- Raylon Leaks-May
- Manager
- Colleen O'Toole
- City
- 3.88 sq mi (10.04 km )
- Land
- 3.88 sq mi (10.04 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 646 ft (197 m)
- Density
- 4,949.5/sq mi (1,911.03/km )
- Metro
- 4,392,041 ( Metro Detroit )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( EDT )
- Fips code
- 26-27880
- Gnis feature id
- 0625911
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Ferndale
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Oakland County
- Population
- 19190
- Area
- 10.047643
- Elevation
- 197
- Shares border with
- Huntington Woods
- Official website
- www.ferndalemi.gov
- Image
- Downtown Ferndale mi.jpg
- Households
- 10188
- Dialing code
- 248
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- Commons category
- Ferndale, Michigan
- postal code
- 48220
- inception
- 1918-00-00
- P8168
- Brittany Daniel
- water as percent of area
- 0
- per capita income
- 44652
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Encyclopedic overview
Ferndale is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An inner-ring suburb of Detroit on the Woodward Corridor, Ferndale borders Detroit to the north, roughly 10 miles (16.1 km) northwest of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 19,190.
Ferndale is well known for its downtown, as well as its position as the hub of the LGBTQ+ community in Metro Detroit, and a center of progressive politics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ferndale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.