Healthy Home Assessments in Woodhaven

What Woodhaven is built of

Downriver suburb that broke away from Brownstown Township in 1961, named for the Woodhaven neighborhood of Queens, New York, and anchored economically by Ford's stamping plant. Also noted: Interstate 75 runs north and south through the center of Woodhaven, a city of 6.45 square miles set between Trenton and Brownstown Township. About 4,979 households hold some 12,539 residents. Long before European settlement, the Potawatomi, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Wyandot peoples hunted and fished the area's forests and streams.

What the numbers say

By the 2023 five-year American Community Survey, 62.5% of units are detached single-family homes and 76.2% of occupied units are owner-occupied. Bachelor's attainment among adults is 25.4%. A local landmark: Ford Woodhaven Stamping Plant, the city's largest employer and industrial landmark since 1964.

With detached stock at 62.5%, the walkthrough establishes the building type first and reads the air handling against it.

Named places in Woodhaven:

• Ford Woodhaven Stamping Plant. Ford stamping plant opened in 1964, producing body panels and chassis components for Ford assembly plants.
• Woodhaven Civic Center. City civic campus whose park anchors community recreation.
• Queens namesake heritage. The 1961 village took its name from the Woodhaven neighborhood in Queens, New York.
• Woodhaven Commons. The city's main retail area at Allen and West roads grew out of a Kmart that opened in 1971, with other stores following onto what had been two gas station corners.
• Woodhaven Village Square. The Mobil Oil refinery and canning site on the west side of Allen Road was cleared in the late 1990s, and Woodhaven Village Square was built on that ground between 2001 and 2005.
• Woodhaven Stamping Plant grounds. The Ford plant covers 360 acres on the north side of West Road near I-75 and carries roughly 2,673,000 square feet of shop floor.
• Two ZIP codes. Woodhaven carries two ZIP codes: 48183 covers most of the city along with Trenton and part of Brownstown Township, while 48134 covers a small southwest corner shared with Flat Rock.
• Woodhaven-Brownstown and Gibraltar school line. Woodhaven-Brownstown School District serves most of the city and Gibraltar School District serves the southernmost part, so one city address book spans two districts.
• Civic Center Park. City park with walking trails, picnic areas, playgrounds, and sports facilities.

Corners of the map

Mail runs through the 48134 and 48183 ZIP codes. The population has stayed remarkably stable since about 1970 (roughly 3,566 then to about 12,941 in 2020), with most growth packed into the 1970s.