Healthy Home Assessments in Warren

Inside a Warren home

Warren is an inner-ring suburb and the largest suburb of Detroit, home to the General Motors Technical Center and the United States Army Detroit Arsenal. One local marker: Third-largest city in Michigan with a 2020 census population of 139,387. Counts run to 135,358 residents in 52,936 or so households. Postwar growth was explosive: population jumped from 42,653 in 1950 to 179,260 in 1970 as Detroit-area development and migration surged.

Homes and households

Of units counted in 2023, 75.6% are detached single-family homes and 71.0% of occupied units are owner-occupied. Some 20.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Also on the ground: Detroit Arsenal (U.S. Army TACOM), including the historic tank plant.

With 135,358 residents packed in, garages, combustion sources and exhaust routes are read together.

Local ground in Warren:

• General Motors Technical Center. Eero Saarinen designed corporate campus dedicated in 1956 and named a National Historic Landmark in 2014.
• Detroit Arsenal. Army installation established in 1940 as the first US plant built for mass tank production and now home to the TACOM Life Cycle Management Command.
• Warren Community Center. City recreation complex at 5460 Arden with an indoor aquatic and fitness center run by the Parks and Recreation Department.
• Halmich Park. 74 acre community park at 3001 E 13 Mile Road with six lighted ball diamonds, ten soccer fields, and six tennis courts.
• City Square Park. Two acre park at City Hall and the main library with a summer fountain, winter ice rink, and farmers market.

Corners of the map

Mail runs through the 48088, 48089, 48091, 48092, 48093 and 48397 ZIP codes. The Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant, opened in 1941, produced roughly a quarter of the Sherman tanks built in WWII, giving rise to the 'Arsenal of Democracy' association.