RMO serves Metro Detroit today. These pages describe where we plan to grow.
Middle East
Shelby Township's homes are mostly newer, built since the 1980s, many with finished basements. Our residential and commercial teams cover it, and commercial buildings here keep us on standby.
Residential and commercial RMO teams cover Shelby Township, Warren, Sterling Heights and Clinton Township.
Our residential response team and our commercial teams cover Shelby Township, as they do Warren, Sterling Heights and Clinton Township. We serve a lot of commercial buildings in the area, and they keep us on standby.
Our office in Southfield is 17.4 miles from the middle of Shelby Township: about 25.6 miles by road, or 44 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 and Van Dyke north; M-53 becomes the Van Dyke Freeway through the township, and Hall Road (M-59) runs along its south side.
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, 25.6 miles from our office.
The crew stops the water, makes the property safe and starts the drying the same visit.
35%before 1980
Median year built: 1989, across 33,882 homes and apartments. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024, table B25034.
Registrations from Shelby Township 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.
Flooding along the Longstaff Drain hit the Windmill Pond condominiums on 22 Mile Road in August 2020 and again in July 2023, when the county's public works commissioner called it a 500-year rain.
Source: C&G NewsThe Clinton River drains the township, past River Bends Park and Stony Creek Metropark. In April 2026 it went over its banks in neighboring Utica, and township police warned residents away from it.
Source: WWJOn September 30, 2026, a water main broke near 25 Mile and Mound roads, and a boil-water advisory covered 14 streets and complexes until October 3.
Source: ClickOnDetroitVan Dyke Avenue is Shelby's main business district, with more than 1,000 businesses from the Utica border to 26 Mile, plus the 23 Mile Road commercial and industrial corridor and the Hall Road retail district.
Set off as a township in 1827. About 79,641 people live in Shelby 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.
Shelby Township neighborhoods
| ZIP code | Median home built | FEMA 2014 | FEMA 2021 | FEMA 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48315 | 1994 | 32 | 15 | 69 |
| 48316 | 1993 | 13 | 6 | 30 |
| 48317 | 1977 | 23 | 14 | 59 |
ZIP codes from the Census Bureau’s 2020 ZIP-to-place relationship file; housing age from ACS 2020–2024; registrations from OpenFEMA.
Shelby Township is about 44 minutes from our Southfield office in light traffic (25.6 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 Shelby Township, including 48315, 48316 and 48317. If you're near the edge of Shelby 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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