RMO serves Metro Detroit today. These pages describe where we plan to grow.
Middle East
Canton Township grew fast: half of its homes were built after 1990. We look after a lot of properties here, where water damage comes as often from a failed supply line or a sump pump as from a storm.
We look after a lot of properties in Canton, as we do in Westland, Redford, Taylor and Lincoln Park. Canton's housing is newer than most of Wayne County's, so the calls are often about a finished basement, a failed supply line or water heater, or a sump pump that couldn't keep up.
Our office in Southfield is 17.3 miles from the middle of Canton: about 25.3 miles by road, or 35 minutes when traffic is light. Across Wayne County a crew is on site in about 60 minutes, day or night, and when you call we give you a real arrival time.
From Southfield, crews take I-696 west to I-275 south, with exits at Ford Road and Michigan Avenue.
A person answers 248-845-0000, day or night, and asks what happened and where.
Trucks leave with the pumps, extractors, air movers and dehumidifiers the job needs, 25.3 miles from our office.
The crew stops the water, makes the property safe and starts the drying the same visit.
37%before 1980
Median year built: 1991, across 38,169 homes and apartments. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024, table B25034.
Registrations from Canton mailing addresses. A registration is a household asking for help, not proof of damage, and mailing addresses don’t follow city limits exactly. FEMA, OpenFEMA Housing Assistance data, pulled 2026-10-12.
On August 24, 2023, four to six inches of rain fell on Canton. Four creeks overflowed into neighborhoods, more than 300 homes reported damage by the next morning, the township declared a local emergency, and that evening an EF-0 tornado crossed the township.
Source: National Weather ServiceThe Lower Rouge River and Pine Creek drain the south of the township, and Tonquish Creek and Garden Creek, tributaries of the Middle Rouge, drain the northeast.
Source: WikipediaIn April 2025 flooding washed out Canton Center Road at Willow Creek, in front of Canton High School, closing it both ways.
Source: CBS DetroitCanton grew from about 11,000 people in 1970 to nearly 100,000 today; in the 1970s it wasn't unusual for 2,000 homes to go up in a single year.
Source: Canton TownshipFord Road is Canton's main retail corridor, home to Michigan's only IKEA, and the Michigan Avenue corridor keeps growing; the township also holds about 8,000 apartments.
Created in 1834; a charter township since 1961. About 99,041 people live in Canton Township (Census, 2020–2024 estimate). If a public sewer backed up into your building, Michigan law asks you to give written notice to the agency that runs the sewer (the city, township or county) within 45 days of finding the damage.
Canton neighborhoods
| ZIP code | Median home built | FEMA 2014 | FEMA 2021 | FEMA 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48187 | 1981 | 128 | 100 | 564 |
| 48188 | 1996 | 37 | 152 | 514 |
ZIP codes from the Census Bureau’s 2020 ZIP-to-place relationship file; housing age from ACS 2020–2024; registrations from OpenFEMA.
Canton Township is about 35 minutes from our Southfield office in light traffic (25.3 miles by road). Across Wayne County a crew is on site in about 60 minutes, day or night. Call 248-845-0000 and we'll give you a real arrival time.
Every part of Canton Township, including 48187 and 48188. If you're near the edge of Canton Township, call and we'll confirm right away.
Leave your name and number and a coordinator will call you back. If water is still coming in, or there’s smoke or sewage, call now.
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