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Oakland County
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county in Michigan, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- Metro
- Metro Detroit
- Incorporated
- 1819 (created), 1820 (organized)
- County seat
- Pontiac (Legislative and Judicial), Waterford (Executive)
- Largest city
- Troy
- Executive
- David Coulter ( D )
- Prosecuting attorney
- Karen McDonald ( D )
- Total
- 907 sq mi (2,350 km )
- Land
- 868 sq mi (2,250 km )
- Water
- 40 sq mi (100 km )
- Estimate 2025
- 1,288,337
- Density
- 1,470/sq mi (567/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern Time Zone )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( Eastern Daylight Time )
- Area codes
- 248 and 947
- Website
- oakgov .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Michigan
- Contains
- Sylvan Lake
- Capital
- Pontiac
- Population
- 1274395
- Area
- 2532
- Shares border with
- Livingston County
- Official website
- www.oakgov.com
- Image
- Detroit Zoo seal in Rackham Fountain (5679).jpg
- Households
- 509589
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Oakland County, Michigan
- Commons category
- Oakland County, Michigan
- topic's main category
- Category:Oakland County, Michigan
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Oakland County, Michigan
- inception
- 1820-03-28
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Oakland County, Michigan
- water as percent of area
- 4.4
- native label
- Oakland County
- different from
- Oakland
- social media followers
- 17745
- topic has template
- Template:Oakland County, Michigan
- per capita income
- 46075
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Encyclopedic overview
Oakland County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a principal county of the Detroit metropolitan area, containing the bulk of Detroit's northern suburbs. Its county seat is Pontiac, and its largest city is Troy. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,274,395, making it the second-most populous county in Michigan (behind neighboring Wayne County), and the most populous county in the United States without a city of 100,000 residents.
Founded in 1819 and organized the following year, Oakland County is composed of 62 cities, villages, and townships. In 2010, Oakland County was among the ten wealthiest counties in the United States that had over one million residents. It is also home to Oakland University, a large public institution that straddles the border between the cities of Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oakland County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.