[4] With a land area of 0.57 square miles (1.48 km2), Pleasant Ridge is the fifth-smallest city by land area in the state of Michigan after the cities of Sylvan Lake, Keego Harbor, Petersburg, and Clarkston.

[7] Pleasant Ridge began when Burt Taylor subdivided the Mayday farm in 1913.

The community incorporated as a village within Royal Oak Township in 1921 and again as an autonomous city in 1927.

[8] One of the more notable establishments within the city was Hedge's Wigwam, which was a Native American-themed restaurant that operated from 1927 until 1967.

Pleasant Ridge was actively involved in resisting the construction of the middle segment of Interstate 696 in the early 1960s.

[9] Pleasant Ridge is bordered on the south by the city of Ferndale, which is considered the center of the LGBT community in the Metro Detroit region.

[12] These numbers rank Pleasant Ridge as having the seventh-highest same-sex household ratio in the nation.

[14] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.57 square miles (1.48 km2), all land.

The portion of the city located west of Woodward Avenue (M-1) includes the Pleasant Ridge Historic District and its spacious residential homes, while an area of more modest homes is located east of Woodward.