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Southfield is a city in Oakland County, Michigan. As the northern suburb of Detroit, it shares part of its southern border with the city. It is part of Southfield Township, which was founded in 1958. At the 2010 census, the city had 71,739 inhabitants.

The autonomous city of Lathrup Village is an enclave of Southfield. Southfield is home to the Southfield Town Center complex, which comprises five interconnected office buildings. The tallest of these buildings is the 3000 Town Center, the tallest of its kind in the state, the tallest building on the Detroit River and home to a condo in Grand Rapids, the 16th tallest building in the state.

Southfield was first surveyed in 1817 according to a plan by Michigan Governor Lewis Cass. The first settlers came from Birmingham and Royal Oak, Michigan, as well as New York and Vermont. The founders were the Heth, Stephen, Harmon, McClelland and Thompson families. The area that would later become Southfield was settled by John Daniels in 1823.

On July 12, 1830, the cities 1 in the north and 10 in the east were organized as Ossewa Township, and 17 days later the name was changed to Southfield Township. Southfield takes its name from its location in the southern fields of Bloomfield Township.

The US Post Office was founded in 1833 and the first town hall was built in 1873. The Southfield Fire Department was founded on 6 April 1942 and the Southfield Police Department in 1953.

In the 1950s, some urban villages began to join the township, including Lathrup Village in 1950 and Beverly Hills in 1957. Most of those who left the township on 28 April 1958 united with the city to protect themselves from attempts to annex Detroit from whites who migrated to the suburbs and did not want to be associated with Detroit to enlarge the black community.

The town hall was built in 1964 as part of the new Civic Center complex that became the headquarters of Southfields Police Headquarters. The civic centre was expanded in 1971 to include a sports arena and a swimming pool. The Evergreen Hill Golf Course was added in 1972 and a new public safety building, Southfields Pavilion, and a new courthouse were added in 1978.

In 2003, an expanded and revised Southfield Public Library was open to the public and the Civic Center site features state of the art facilities. In the 1970s the Civic Center and Southfield Municipal Parks and Recreation were developed including the Beech Woods Recreation Center and John Grace Community Center.

Dun & Scotus College is home to the Word of Faith Christian Center, which is also home to U.S.D.

Southfield is a commercial and business center for the greater Detroit area, with over 25,084,400 square feet of metro office space, mainly in the Detroit-Detroit and Detroit Central Business District, of which there are 330,089,000 square feet. Several nationally recognized companies are headquartered in Southfield, including Veoneer, Huf Hulsbeck & Furst, Denso, Peterson Springs, Federal Mogul, Lear, R.L. Polk & Co., International Automotive Components, Stefanini Inc. and Guardian Alarm. More than 100 Fortune 500 companies have offices in the city.

Sumitomo Corporation operates an office in Detroit, 1450 27777 Franklin Road. Industries supported by the Southfield Office include automotive, rolled steel and tubular products.

On October 28, 2014, Fifth Third Bank announced plans to move its regional headquarters in Michigan from Southfield to downtown Detroit and renamed its building One Woodward. In Southfield, Outstanding is Southfield City Center, a mixed area of major business centers, a private university and residential districts at the intersection of Interstate 696 (I-696), Walter P. Reuther Freeway, M-10 and Lodge Freeway. It was established in 1992 as a special assessment district with plans to improve walking amenities and promote economic development. The Center at One Nation mall, which opened in the city in 1954, closed in 2015.

The main arm of the River Rouge runs through the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, Southfield has an area of 6,806 km2, of which 6,804 km2 are land and 0.03 km2 are water. Southfield borders Detroit and Redford Township to the south, Farmington Hills to the west, Franklin, Bingham Farm and Beverly Hill to the north, and Royal Oak, Berkley and Oak Park to the east. Its northern border does not follow a single road and stretches for thirteen miles of roads. The city is bordered by Eight Mile Road to the south, Inkster Road to the west and Greenfield Road to the east.

Separate from the city is Lathrup Village, an enclave in the eastern part of Redford Township that surrounds Southfield. At the 2010 census, there were 71,739 people living in the city, 31,778 households and 18,178 families. The population density was 27,308 inhabitants per square mile (10,544 / km2). There were 35,986 residential units with an average density of 13,699 per square mile (5,289 / km2). The ethnic composition of the city was 70.3% African-American, 24.9% white, 0.2% Native American, 1.7% Asian, 0.4% non-racial, and 2.4% two or more racial.

Hispanics and Latinos of all races made up 1.3% of the population. The median age in the city was 42. There were 31,778 households of which 26.7% had children under 18 years old, 33.5% were married couples residing together, 19.4% had a housekeeper without a husband, 4.4% were male households without a wife and 42.8% were non-families. The average household size was 2.22 and the average family size was 3.96.

Southfield Public Schools operates the district's public schools. Students living in parts of northern Southfield attend school in Birmingham City School District, while students in the southeast corner of the city attend school in Oak Park School District. There were two high schools in the district, Southfield Southfield and Southfield-Lathrup, but both were consolidated for the 2015-16 school year. Southfield Senior High School of Arts and Technology, also known as Southfield A & T, is its only high school.

Southfield A & T competes in the Oakland Activities Association Red Division of High School Sports and is a member of MHSAA. Farber Hebrew Day School and Yeshivat Akiva are private Jewish schools in Southfield. AGBU (Alex and Marie Manoogian School) is an Armenian charter school in the city.

Southfield is home to eight universities, including Lawrence Technological University, Abcott Institute, Everest Institute and Oakland Community College. Southfield Public Library operates the Southfield Public Library. Providence Medical Center offers residential education in various areas of medicine. Specs Howard School of Media and the Arts is located in the city. Southfield Christian School is a private school in the community.