Healthy Home Assessments in Oxford Township

Oxford Township, house by house

Also noted: Known as the 'Gravel Capital of the World', a title earned in its 1920s mining boom, and sister city of Oxford, England.

Homes and households

By the 2023 five-year American Community Survey, 77.8% of units are detached single-family homes and 86.4% of occupied units are owner-occupied. Some 44.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

With owner-occupancy at 86.4%, the report can follow moisture from the roofline down to the slab without stopping at a lease boundary.

Around Oxford Township:

• Historic gravel pits. Glacial gravel veins mined from W.O. Smith's 1908 rock-crushing plant onward; by the 1920s Oxford shipped five million tons a year.
• Polly Ann Trail. Rail-trail on the 1882 Pontiac, Oxford and Port Austin ('Poor Old Polly Ann') railbed, running 14-plus miles through Orion, Oxford, Addison, and Leonard.
• Kids Kingdom playscape. Fenced medieval-themed playground with a drawbridge entrance at Seymour Lake Township Park.
• Seymour Lake Township Park. 125-acre park with a splash pad, disc golf, sled hill, courts, and a Saturday farmers market from May through October.
• Polly Ann Trail corridor. Crushed-stone trail for hiking, biking, and horses running to the Lapeer county line.

Streets and settlements

Inside Oxford Township sits one named district, Village of Oxford. Village of Oxford: Incorporated village at the township's center on the Polly Ann Trail.