Healthy Home Assessments in Orchard Lake Village

Orchard Lake Village, house by house

Orchard Lake Village sits in Oakland County, Michigan. Also noted: Campus of the Michigan Military Academy, called the second West Point, where Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs studied. Counts run to 2,419 residents in 779 or so households. Apple Island was long inhabited by local Native Americans; early settlers planted an apple orchard there, which gave the lake and later the village their name.

What the numbers say

Owner-occupancy sits at 96.1%, and 98.5% of all units are detached single-family homes, per 2023 five-year Census figures. Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher come to 68.3%. With construction recorded from 1857, an older envelope behaves differently from new build. One landmark on the ground here: Orchard Lake Museum in the historic 1939 Village Hall.

With Orchard Lake nearby, seasonal humidity behaves differently, and moisture is where the assessment starts. Because owner-occupancy reaches 96.1%, most visits cover a whole building rather than one unit of a shared system.

Local ground in Orchard Lake Village:

• Apple Island. 35-acre glacial island in the middle of Orchard Lake, a Native American site ceded in the Treaty of Detroit and preserved since 1970 as the Marjorie Ward Strong Woodland Sanctuary.
• Michigan Military Academy Academic Building. 1877 building whose cadets included Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs; the school was dubbed the second West Point.
• Orchard Lake. The lake that gave the city its name, from the Ojibwe Menahsagorning, 'apple place'.
• Apple Island nature center. Island used by the West Bloomfield School District as an educational nature center, with occasional historical society boat tours.

Corners of the map

Mail runs through the 48320, 48323, 48324 and 48328 ZIP codes. Orchard Lake is the second-largest and third-deepest lake in Oakland County, reaching about 110 feet deep.