Healthy Home Assessments in Highland Park

Highland Park at ground level

Enclave city surrounded by Detroit whose Ford plant made it a manufacturing boomtown in the 1910s and 1920s, now rebuilding around its historic civic landmarks. Worth knowing: Birthplace of the world's first moving automotive assembly line, launched at the Highland Park Ford Plant on October 7, 1913. 4,229 households, 10,949 residents. Highland Park became a city in 1918 largely to protect its tax base from annexation by rapidly expanding Detroit, which surrounds it.

The housing stock

Of units counted in 2023, 52.8% are detached single-family homes and 45.4% of occupied units are owner-occupied. Some 17.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Building is recorded here from 1910. An older envelope handles air and moisture differently. One landmark on the ground here: The Davison Freeway, which opened on November 25, 1942 as the first depressed (below-grade) urban freeway in the United States.

Owner-occupancy of 45.4% means the walkthrough notes where a fix needs the building owner rather than the occupant.

Landmarks and public space in Highland Park:

• Highland Park Ford Plant. Factory at 91 Manchester Street where the world's first moving automotive assembly line started on October 7, 1913, cutting Model T assembly from 728 to 93 minutes; a National Historic Landmark since 1978.
• Ford Plant grounds and Woodward corridor. Historic Woodward Avenue frontage of the landmark plant, a stop on Michigan's automotive heritage route.
• McGregor Library grounds. Civic green space around the restored 1926 library building.

Streets and settlements

Addresses fall in 48203. The Davison Freeway's concrete roadbed was cured underwater by flooding it, producing a surface so durable it lasted more than 50 years.