Wayne County, Michigan
Healthy Home Assessments in Dearborn
Dearborn is the birthplace of Henry Ford and the beating heart of Ford Motor Company, home to the sprawling River Rouge complex and the corporate world headquarters known as the Glass House. We measure the indoor environment and explain it.
Reading a Dearborn home
Dearborn sits in Wayne County, Michigan. One local marker: Home of the largest indoor-outdoor museum complex in the United States, The Henry Ford. Roughly 95,171 residents live across about 31,647 households. The village of Dearborn incorporated in 1893; it reincorporated as a city on February 14, 1927, and consolidated with the neighboring city of Fordson on June 12, 1928, roughly doubling in size.
The building stock
Detached single-family homes are 75.4% of the stock; owner-occupancy is 68.2% of occupied units, on 2023 five-year Census estimates. Some 34.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The record of building starts around 1931, so the assessment reads an older envelope. A local landmark: The Dearborn Inn, opened in 1931 and considered one of the world's first airport hotels (built to serve the adjacent Ford Airport).
With 95,171 residents packed in, garages, combustion sources and exhaust routes are read together. With detached stock at 75.4%, the walkthrough establishes the building type first and reads the air handling against it.
Ground that fixes Dearborn on the map:
- The Henry Ford. Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village, the largest indoor-outdoor museum complex in the United States, drawing over 1.7 million visitors a year.
- Fair Lane. National Historic Landmark estate of Henry and Clara Ford on the River Rouge, with gardens designed by Jens Jensen.
- Greenfield Village grounds. 80-plus-acre outdoor living-history village within The Henry Ford complex with historic structures including Thomas Edison's laboratory and the Wright brothers' bicycle shop.
- Fair Lane estate grounds. Publicly accessible historical landscape along the River Rouge, part of the preserved Ford estate.
Where the addresses are
The 48101, 48120, 48121, 48123, 48124, 48126 and 48128 ZIP codes cover these addresses. Fordson Island, formed in 1922 when a channel was cut across a bend of the Rouge River, is a small island entirely within the city.