Livingston County, Michigan
Healthy Home Assessments in Deerfield Township
Deerfield Township is a rural civil township in northeastern Livingston County, about 37.6 square miles with 4,166 residents at the 2020 census. One visit, one written plan, no upsell to a project.
Reading a Deerfield Township home
Livingston County's master plan community profile describes Deerfield Township as a landscape of rolling countryside, dairy farms, woodlands, and open fields in the northern-central region of the county. A local distinction: Livingston County's 2025 master plan community profile states the area is renowned for the Oak Grove State Game Area, a Michigan DNR managed wildlife habitat. Counts run to 4,230 residents in 1,522 or so households. Established March 20, 1837, carved out of Howell Township; Tyrone Township split off the following year, after which the boundaries have never changed.
Homes and households
Census five-year estimates through 2023 put 89.5% of housing units in detached single-family homes and 90.8% of occupied units with their owners. Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher come to 29.7%. A local landmark: The Deer Creek cemetery.
Deer Creek is close, and water nearby lifts seasonal humidity, so basement moisture and condensation lead the visit.
Around Deerfield Township:
- Saint Augustine Catholic Church and Cemetery. Michigan historical marker L1938 at Faussett and Green roads marks the parish that Irish Catholic settlers in Deerfield and Tyrone townships organized in 1843.
- Deer Creek historic settlement. Former mill village on a bluff above the south branch of the Shiawassee River where a small cluster of homes and Deer Creek Cemetery remain.
- Deerfield Center. Village begun in 1842 in section 16 that now holds the township hall, a church, and a cluster of homes.
- Oak Grove State Game Area. Michigan DNR game area of more than 1,000 acres that lies partly in the township and is open to hunting during all game seasons.
- Deerfield Hills Nature Area. 365 acre township nature area at Green Road and Cohoctah Road with nature trails and a handicapped accessible dock on Howe Lake.
Corners of the map
Deerfield Township takes in 2 smaller settlements: Deer Creek and Deerfield Center. Deer Creek: Unincorporated community on Wiggins Road south of Cohoctah Road in sections 6 and 7. Deerfield Center: Unincorporated community at Center and Mack roads that hosts the township hall. The 48430, 48451 and 48855 ZIP codes cover these addresses. Deer Creek was known locally as "Howburg.".