Southfield, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
790 ft 240 m740 ft 225 m720 ft 220 m680 ft 205 m640 ft 195 m610 ft 185 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Southfield sits at about 680 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
680 ft 210 m
most residents: 660–710 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Highest
790 ft 240 m
on the northwest side
Average
680 ft 205 m
all land inside city limits
Southfield spans about 180 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 680 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 790 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Southfield | 680 ft210 m |
| Airport (VLL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.2 mi northeast of the city limits | 727 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Oakland County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 76,874 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.3 sq mi
- Density
- 2,927 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4734° N, 83.2219° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Oakland/Troy (VLL) 727 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 48033 48034 48075 48076
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Southfield Township730 ft
- Beverly Hills730 ft
- Bingham Farms720 ft
- Lathrup Village700 ft
- Berkley680 ft
- Southfield680 ft
- Oak Park670 ft
- Royal Oak Township670 ft
- Huntington Woods660 ft
- Royal Oak660 ft
- Pleasant Ridge650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan1,429th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Oakland County51st highest of 61
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Mountain, Oakland County1,130 ft
- Waterford Hill1,130 ft
- Mount Judah1,130 ft
- Haven Hill1,120 ft
- Teeple Hill1,100 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 610 ft at 42.4440° N, 83.2832° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.