Eastpointe (formerly East Detroit) is a city on the southern edge of Macomb County, Michigan, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 32,442. Eastpointe forms a allocation of the Metro Detroit area. It borders 8 Mile Road on the northern edge of Detroit.

The community was first decided by Irish and German immigrants in the 1830s. In October 1897, a Post Office was time-honored there subsequent to the broadcast of “Half-way”, as it was close the halfway lessening of drama run amongst downtown Detroit and the Macomb County seat at Mount Clemens. It incorporated as the village of Halfway in December 1924 and reincorporated as the City of East Detroit in January 1929. Prior to 1924, most of the community formed a portion of Erin Township. The city misused its proclaim to “Eastpointe” after the amend was qualified by residents in a 1992 referendum; the name change had been proposed to surgically remove any perceived membership with the bordering city of Detroit; the “pointe” suffix is intended to associate the city instead subsequent to the nearby affluent communities of the Grosse Pointes.

The city’s teacher district was unaffected by the municipal post change, and was called East Detroit Public Schools until 2017, when it misrepresented the district state to Eastpointe Community Schools to align gone the community name. It has one high school (Eastpointe High School), one center school (Eastpointe Middle School), and four elementary schools. The primary district boundaries of Eastpointe Community Schools encompass the City of Eastpointe and the southeastern allowance of the city of Warren.

Eastpointe is a Michigan home-rule city and operates below the council-manager form of government. The city’s mayor and four council members are elected at large to four-year staggered terms. In 2019, Suzanne Pixley, who had been mayor past 2007, did not intend reelection after her third four-year term. Councilwoman Monique Owens succeeded Pixley as mayor in 2019.