Berkley is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a northern suburb of Detroit located along the Woodward Corridor (M-1) in southeastern Oakland County. The population was 15,194 as of the 2020 Census.

Prior to settlement, the estate which would become Berkley consisted largely of dense forests and some on your own pockets of swampland. Many in the region deemed the areas north and west of Detroit as uninhabitable or impassible due to the harshness of the swamps beyond Detroit, but as adventurers pushed out through the interminable swamp, they found beautiful scenery more than the wet prairie of Northern Wayne County. As it became with ease known that there was “fine cultivation country” to the north and west of Detroit, great activity was raised and people began to flock to what was then whatever known as Royal Oak. Land in what would well ahead become Berkley began physical sold to farmers who clip down forests and instead prepared the house for farming. By the 1840s, Berkley contained a great number of dairy farms. The 1910s brought significant accumulation to the area with the endowment of the Highland Park Ford Plant. As farms were sold and turned into subdivisions, there was pressure to formally incorporate the land. In 1923, Berkley was incorporated as a village. At the time, Elmer Cromie had named the road that ran through his farm Berkley and the “Berkley School” was then below construction, so the read out Berkley was selected for the village.

The Wall Street Crash of 1929 brought growth in Berkley to a halt. Roughly 90% of the 5,558 residents in Berkley free their jobs as soon as the market crashed. Within a year, the city’s population was dropping and in 1932 voters chose to incorporate their Village into a City to get more oversight more than taxes and new issues facing the community. In the 1940s, suburbanization and the post-war boom economy drove significant progress in the area. The current Berkley High School was built in 1949. The city reached a population zenith of 23,375 in 1960.

In July 1964, an enclosed shopping mall was planned to be built, stretching east to west from Coolidge Highway to Kipling Avenue, and 12 Mile Rd to Wiltshire Rd, North to South. The wish would concern buying and demolishing 114 homes and businesses. The goal eventually collapsed.