Healthy Home Assessments in Dearborn Heights

Inside a Dearborn Heights home

Residential Wayne County suburb of predominantly single-family neighborhoods bordering Dearborn, with the Rouge valley and its historic golf grounds running through the north end. A local distinction: Home of Warren Valley, one of Donald Ross's first golf course designs in Michigan (1922). Some 56,145 residents occupy about 20,984 households. Population exploded from 20,235 residents in 1950 to 61,118 by 1960 (a 202% jump), peaked at 80,069 in 1970, and stood at 63,292 as of the 2020 census.

Homes and households

Owner-occupancy sits at 71.6%, and 86.0% of all units are detached single-family homes, per 2023 five-year Census figures. Some 23.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Among the local landmarks: The Middle Rouge River corridor, which threads through the city and comes into play on several holes at Warren Valley.

A stock that is 86.0% detached puts crawlspace, attic and exhaust on one continuous route through the visit.

What stands in Dearborn Heights:

• Warren Valley Golf Course. 36-hole facility designed in 1922 by Donald Ross, one of his first Michigan courses; the city bought it from Wayne County in 2018 and it reopened under new management in April 2023.
• Canfield Community Center. City community center at 1801 North Beech Daly run by Parks and Recreation.
• Richard A. Young Recreation Center. City recreation center at 5400 McKinley Street, also a designated county warming and cooling site.
• Dearborn Heights Parks and Recreation system. City-run parks and programs administered from the Canfield and Richard A. Young centers.
• Warren Valley golf and banquet grounds. City-owned Donald Ross golf landscape along the Rouge, preserved from development when the city purchased it in 2018.

Across the community

The 48125 and 48127 ZIP codes cover these addresses. Dearborn Heights ran one of the first suburban fire departments in the region to add ambulance service, in the mid-1960s.