Washtenaw County, Michigan
Healthy Home Assessments in Scio Township
Scio Township wraps around the west side of Ann Arbor and the south side of Dexter, 34 square miles of Huron River bottomland, farm fields and I-94 frontage that most of the country knows only as an "Ann Arbor, 48103" mailing address. The assessment looks at the whole home, not one part.
What Scio Township is built of
Huron River township just west of Ann Arbor blending the Jackson Road commercial corridor with riverside metroparks and the remnant mill hamlet of Delhi. A local distinction: Keeper of Delhi Mills, one of Washtenaw County's best-preserved ghost mill villages, now inside a Huron River metropark. Counts run to 21,325 residents in 7,889 or so households. Established in 1832, one of the earliest townships organized in Washtenaw County.
The building stock
By the 2023 five-year American Community Survey, 71.3% of units are detached single-family homes and 82.6% of occupied units are owner-occupied. Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher come to 70.5%. Building is recorded here from 1835. An older envelope handles air and moisture differently. One landmark on the ground here: Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, 7474 Scio Church Road.
With owner-occupancy at 82.6%, the report can follow moisture from the roofline down to the slab without stopping at a lease boundary.
Named places in Scio Township:
- Delhi Mills. 1836 mill village that ran two grist mills, a woolen mill, and four daily train stops at its 1860s-70s peak; today a hamlet of forty-nine houses inside the metropark.
- Delhi Metropark. 81-acre Huron River park five miles northwest of Ann Arbor with canoe rental and picnic shelters on the old village site.
- Border-to-Border Trail. Countywide Huron River trail with a new Scio trailhead and river crossings.
- Dexter-Huron Metropark. 122-acre Huron River park with picnic areas, fishing, and canoe launching.
- Huron River paddling reach. Canoe route linking the township's two metroparks toward Ann Arbor.
Where the addresses are
Inside Scio Township sits one named district, Delhi Mills. Delhi Mills: Historic hamlet of about 123 residents on the Huron. The 48103, 48105 and 48130 ZIP codes cover these addresses. Scio and neighboring Webster Township were named at the same moment as a matched pair of Greek independence references. Scio honors Chios, the island destroyed in 1822, and Webster honors Daniel Webster, the senator who championed the cause. Delacroix's 1824 painting of the massacre had made it a cause celebre in America.