RMO serves Metro Detroit today. These pages describe where we plan to grow.
Middle East
Oak Park is right next door to our office, about five minutes away. Its homes are mostly post-war, nearly all of them built before 1980, and we keep standby crews for the commercial buildings here too.
Oak Park has an RMO emergency team ready for it, as Pontiac and Waterford do.
Oak Park, like Pontiac and Waterford, has an emergency team ready for it. We serve commercial buildings here, some together with our sister companies, and keep crews on standby for them.
For homes, being next door means a short drive: about five minutes from our office in light traffic.
Our office in Southfield is 1.8 miles from the middle of Oak Park: about 2.1 miles by road, or 5 minutes when traffic is light. Across Oakland County a crew is on site in about 60 minutes, day or night, and when you call we give you a real arrival time.
Oak Park borders Southfield to the east. Crews take 9 Mile, 10 Mile or I-696 and are there in minutes; Greenfield Road and Coolidge Highway are the main north-south roads.
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, 2.1 miles from our office.
The crew stops the water, makes the property safe and starts the drying the same visit.
89%before 1980
Median year built: 1958, across 13,091 homes and apartments. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024, table B25034.
Registrations from Oak Park 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.
Oak Park is in the George W. Kuhn drainage district, where storm water and sewage share the same pipes. In heavy rain, the overflow goes to a retention basin in Madison Heights and on to the Red Run Drain.
Source: WikipediaFlooded basements were reported all over south Oakland County in the August 2014 storm, Oak Park among them.
Source: Oakland County 115Oak Park was named America's fastest-growing city for 1950 to 1960, built out after the war by GI Bill buyers and new commuter highways.
Source: WikipediaIn a 2024 to 2025 pilot, homeowners in the Kuhn district, Oak Park included, could get rebates for rain gardens, rain barrels and trees that keep storm water out of the combined sewer.
Source: City of SouthfieldOak Park's businesses line 8 Mile Road, 11 Mile Road, Coolidge Highway and Greenfield Road, including a FedEx distribution center on the former Detroit Artillery Armory site.
A village in 1927 and a city in 1945. About 29,318 people live in Oak Park (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48237 | 1958 | 4,391 | 292 | 1,640 |
ZIP codes from the Census Bureau’s 2020 ZIP-to-place relationship file; housing age from ACS 2020–2024; registrations from OpenFEMA.
Oak Park is about 5 minutes from our Southfield office in light traffic (2.1 miles by road). Across Oakland 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 Oak Park, including 48237. If you're near the edge of Oak Park, 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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