RMO serves Metro Detroit today. These pages describe where we plan to grow.
Middle East
Taylor sits at the southern edge of our core area, Downriver, about half an hour from our office. We look after a lot of properties here: homes, apartments and commercial buildings.
We look after a lot of properties in Taylor, as we do in Lincoln Park, Westland, Canton and Redford. Most of Taylor's homes were built in the 1950s and 1960s, with basements that a summer storm can fill.
Our office in Southfield is 16.4 miles from the middle of Taylor: about 20.4 miles by road, or 32 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 Telegraph Road straight south, or I-94 and I-75, which both cross the city.
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, 20.4 miles from our office.
The crew stops the water, makes the property safe and starts the drying the same visit.
83%before 1980
Median year built: 1963, across 26,537 homes and apartments. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024, table B25034.
Registrations from Taylor 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.
The South Branch of the Ecorse River flows through Taylor, fed by several county drains, and the Douglas and Kelly drains in Taylor help form the North Branch of Ecorse Creek.
Source: WikipediaThe city says the water hazards at the Lakes of Taylor and Taylor Meadows golf courses double as retention basins and have greatly reduced flooding.
Source: City of TaylorCommercial work in Taylor's 100-year floodplain, including filling and excavation, needs a city flood elevation certificate first, and owners there with federally backed mortgages must carry flood insurance.
Source: City of TaylorAbout 4.25 inches of rain fell on Taylor in the August 2014 storm.
Source: FloodListTaylor has six miles of Telegraph Road, Southland Center, three industrial parks and the Corewell Health hospital on Telegraph, with I-94 and I-75 both crossing the city.
Organized in 1847; a city since 1968. About 62,081 people live in Taylor (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48180 | 1963 | 275 | 233 | 903 |
ZIP codes from the Census Bureau’s 2020 ZIP-to-place relationship file; housing age from ACS 2020–2024; registrations from OpenFEMA.
Taylor is about 32 minutes from our Southfield office in light traffic (20.4 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 Taylor, including 48180. If you're near the edge of Taylor, 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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