WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI: $24.8M on 67,193 FEC receipts

Keep WEST BLOOMFIELD as the full city string

The headline pair is $24,782,934 and 67,193 lines. The implied average is about $369. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the West Bloomfield book.

Oakland County’s West Bloomfield string is separate from Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, and Farmington Hills on the FEC city key. Filers typed WEST BLOOMFIELD in the city field. A shortened Bloomfield row, if it exists, would be a different key. LobbyVault summed rows with this string and state MI. The city total can include a PAC or joint-fundraising committee address when that is the city filers typed. LobbyVault does not recode those rows out of the city string.

If a newsroom map paints West Bloomfield together with Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham, the FEC file still splits them. Farmington Hills too. This extract’s only city total is $24,782,934 on 67,193 WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI rows, mean near $369.

Why WEST BLOOMFIELD on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in West Bloomfield give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI total $24,782,934 across 67,193 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $24,782,934. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Outside the West Bloomfield itemized book

$24,782,934 is not spending by West Bloomfield candidates. A candidate who lives in West Bloomfield can raise money from other cities. A donor row tagged WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI can go to a committee anywhere.

A mean near $369 does not describe a median resident of West Bloomfield. Means move with a few large lines.

Postal confusion with Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, or Farmington Hills is why the city field is a poor residency proxy. $24,782,934 counts rows that stored WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI. 67,193 lines. About $369 each. Neighbor names need their own hubs.

West Bloomfield versus Bloomfield Hills

West Bloomfield is a mid-mean book on this extract: 67,193 lines produce $24,782,934, a mean near $369. Mid-mean is not the same as unique people.

Comparing West Bloomfield’s mean to Bloomfield Hills is only valid on the same series: contributor city, itemized federal receipts. Mixing in Michigan state data breaks the comparison.

A West Bloomfield total of $24,782,934 does not absorb Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, or Detroit. Those names are other city strings when filers typed them. State MI stays on the citation so WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI is not merged with Bloomfield, NJ.

City total versus postal codes in MI

67,193 city-field lines can spread across many ZIPs or cluster in a few. This packet does not list those ZIPs. Open the ZIP directory and the live West Bloomfield hub rather than guessing the split.

After an amendment wave, recheck both the city hub and any ZIP you compared. Snapshots drift independently.

Because this packet carries only city, state, dollar total, and contribution count, every other story about West Bloomfield politics sits outside the extract. That includes candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results. This guide stays on the two numbers FEC.gov supplied for the city field.

Source tables for $24,782,934

A mean of about $369 is division of $24,782,934 by 67,193. It is fair to report as arithmetic. It is not fair to report as a typical resident of West Bloomfield.

Internal links on this page go only to the West Bloomfield city hub, the all-cities directory, and the ZIP directory. Those are the three paths that match this packet.

West Bloomfield’s $24,782,934 across 67,193 contributions is an Oakland County city field, mean near $369. Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham are neighboring strings, not subsets. Oakland County is not summed here. Repeat gifts add rows. Michigan state-office receipts are omitted. Cite $24,782,934 with 67,193 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Researchers citing West Bloomfield should keep Oakland County and Bloomfield Hills off the sentence unless they add those hubs on purpose. The live West Bloomfield table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $24,782,934 or 67,193 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $369 as division only. Michigan state-office receipts sit outside both packet facts. If a ZIP page for a West Bloomfield code disagrees with the city hub, quote both keys rather than forcing a match. Birmingham remains another string. The 67,193-line count still is not a headcount of West Bloomfield people.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city West Bloomfield, MI?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI total $24,782,934 across 67,193 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live in West Bloomfield. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is West Bloomfield the same as Bloomfield Hills on FEC reports?

No. This extract is WEST BLOOMFIELD with state MI: 67,193 lines and $24,782,934. Bloomfield Hills is a different city string. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 67,193 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the West Bloomfield total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed WEST BLOOMFIELD with state MI. Office addresses and mail that list West Bloomfield can be part of $24,782,934 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 67,193-line count follows the same rule.

Are West Bloomfield numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $24,782,934 and 67,193 lines for WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from MI are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $369 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.