Wayne County, Michigan
Healthy Home Assessments in Brownstown Township
Downriver township named for Brown's Town, the Wyandot village of adopted leader Adam Brown; today a residential community anchored by Lake Erie shoreline parkland. We look at the environment your family actually breathes.
Reading a Brownstown Township home
How the housing sits
Census five-year estimates through 2023 put 68.7% of housing units in detached single-family homes and 78.5% of occupied units with their owners. Some 27.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
Near Lake Erie Metropark the humidity picture shifts, which puts basement moisture, condensation and drainage first.
What stands in Brownstown Township:
- Battle of Brownstown memorial. Marker and cannons in Lake Erie Metropark commemorating Tecumseh's August 5, 1812 ambush of Major Thomas Van Horne's column; the state marker was erected in 1958.
- Marshlands Museum. Nature and waterfowl-heritage museum inside Lake Erie Metropark.
- Pointe Mouillee State Game Area. State wildlife area partly in the township, one of its two major protected natural areas.
- Lake Erie Metropark. 1,607-acre Huron-Clinton metropark with three miles of Great Lakes shoreline, regulation golf, the Great Wave pool, and the annual Hawkfest raptor-migration festival.
- Thorn Park Community Center complex. Township recreation campus on Telegraph Road with a splash park, tennis and pickleball courts, dog parks, ball fields, and an event center; one of nine township parks.