RMO serves Metro Detroit today. These pages describe where we plan to grow.
Middle East
Ninety-four percent of Eastpointe's homes were built before 1980, and nearly 3,000 households here asked FEMA for help after the August 2023 storms. We keep a team on standby for homes and commercial buildings in the city.
An RMO team is on standby for Eastpointe, Roseville and Macomb Township.
As in Roseville and Macomb Township, we have everything in place in Eastpointe: large buildings we service with our sister companies, and a team on standby, ready to go to any residential or commercial property.
Our office in Southfield is 13.7 miles from the middle of Eastpointe: about 15.6 miles by road, or 32 minutes when traffic is light. Across Macomb 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 east, then Gratiot Avenue or 8, 9 or 10 Mile Road into Eastpointe.
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, 15.6 miles from our office.
The crew stops the water, makes the property safe and starts the drying the same visit.
94%before 1980
Median year built: 1954, across 14,037 homes and apartments. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024, table B25034.
Registrations from Eastpointe 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.
Eastpointe has combined sewers: storm water and sewage share the same pipes. In heavy rain the flow goes to the Chapaton basin in St. Clair Shores, and beyond that into Lake St. Clair.
Source: Macomb County Public WorksNearly four inches of rain fell on the Eastpointe area on June 25 and 26, 2021. With two pump stations down, combined sewage backed up, and the county opened an emergency bypass to keep thousands more basements in Eastpointe and St. Clair Shores from flooding.
Source: Macomb CountyIn 2025 the county finished enlarging the Chapaton basin from 3 million to 17 million gallons; after days of rain in April 2026, it didn't have to discharge.
Source: Macomb CountyThe city offers an optional $6-a-month plan that covers water service line failures and broken sewer laterals between the house and the city main.
Source: City of EastpointeGratiot Avenue is Eastpointe's main commercial road, with 8, 9 and 10 Mile; the first Art Van furniture showroom opened here in 1959.
Incorporated in 1924 and renamed Eastpointe in 1992. About 33,982 people live in Eastpointe (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.
| ZIP code | Median home built | FEMA 2014 | FEMA 2021 | FEMA 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48021 | 1954 | 1,430 | 910 | 2,948 |
ZIP codes from the Census Bureau’s 2020 ZIP-to-place relationship file; housing age from ACS 2020–2024; registrations from OpenFEMA.
Eastpointe is about 32 minutes from our Southfield office in light traffic (15.6 miles by road). Across Macomb 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 Eastpointe, including 48021. If you're near the edge of Eastpointe, 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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