Washtenaw County, Michigan
Healthy Home Assessments in Superior Township
Township between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti balancing suburban neighborhoods with one of the region's largest protected greenway corridors and the preserved village of Dixboro. We read the house top to bottom and write it down.
Superior Township, house by house
On the record: Home of the Superior Greenway, a roughly 2,700-acre corridor of protected wild land between two university cities.
The building stock
Detached single-family homes are 67.6% of the stock; owner-occupancy is 84.7% of occupied units, on 2023 five-year Census estimates. Some 52.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Building is recorded here from 1840. An older envelope handles air and moisture differently.
Because owner-occupancy reaches 84.7%, most visits cover a whole building rather than one unit of a shared system.
Named places in Superior Township:
- Dixboro General Store. Built around 1840, the oldest structure in Dixboro village, facing the school and church that complete the historic village center.
- Dixboro village. Settled by John Dix by 1825 and platted in 1826, one of Washtenaw's earliest surviving village centers.
- LeFurge Woods Nature Preserve. Conservancy preserve at the center of the township's protected corridor.
- Superior Greenway. Roughly 2,700-acre wildlife and recreation corridor of linked preserves along Prospect Road.
- Meyer Preserve. County preserve connecting LeFurge Woods and JR Smiley preserves in the greenway.
Streets and settlements
Superior Township also contains one named district, Dixboro. Dixboro: Historic 1820s village on Plymouth Road.