), flanked on each side by long strip malls and shopping complexes.

Most of the township's population growth has occurred since the 1960s, as many residents moved there from the inner ring Detroit suburbs.

West Bloomfield is located in south-central Oakland County about 10 miles (20 km) to the northwest from the Detroit city limits and has borders with Bloomfield Township to its east, Farmington Hills to its south, Commerce Township to its west, and four communities to its north: Waterford Township, Orchard Lake Village, Keego Harbor, and Sylvan Lake.

West Bloomfield Township is serviced by seven school districts, more than any other municipality in Oakland County.

[12] West Bloomfield High School and the Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit are in West Bloomfield proper, and St. Mary's Preparatory is in Orchard Lake Village.

[14] West Bloomfield is home to the largest Jewish population in Michigan.

[15] St. William Church in Walled Lake includes portions of West Bloomfield in its service area.

19.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

In 2004 the Chaldean Cultural Center, the largest of its kind in the United States, was established in the township.

[19] As of April 2013, West Bloomfield had the third largest Japanese national population in the state of Michigan, at 1,047.