Plymouth, Michigan is a quaint Old World community located just 30 minutes from downtown Detroit and 20 minutes east of Ann Arbor. Plymouth was built at the crossroads of three Potawatomi Indian trails that converged at the Rouge River. The first settlers arrived in 1825, and named the township in honor of the first American settlement at Plymouth Rock where some of them had lived previously. Today this area includes what is called the City of Plymouth and the Township of Plymouth and combined has a total population of 33,208 residents.

This charming New England style village has a strong and vibrant business community. With I-96, M-14, and I-275 woven through its center, Plymouth is in the midst of an area of prime commercial and industrial growth. Major expressways, convenient public and private airports and a ready availability of railway services make the community easily accessible to and from Detroit and the nation. Plymouth is home to many modern industrial and corporate headquarters including Ford Motor Company, Plastipak Packaging, Inc., Unysis, Johnson Control, Adistra, and AT&T Tech, Inc. The median household income is $38,232 per year.

There is a wide variety of housing in the Plymouth community. There are affordable starter homes, historic renovated homes, new custom built homes, luxury estates nestled in the heart of downtown, and lush green tree-lined cozy neighborhoods. There are comfortable, trendy condominiums and beautiful homes in sprawling subdivisions dotted throughout wooded hillsides of the surrounding township. The median price of a single-family dwelling is $113,350 with the average price being $271,363.

The vibrant and exciting downtown Plymouth has a plethora of individually owned shops and galleries. The boutiques are one-of-a-kind and range from country crafts to contemporary. Kellogg Park, with a sparkling new fountain, is the nucleus of the town. Concerts and annual festivals are hosted here year-round as well as festive horse drawn carriage rides during the weekends. Plymouth enjoys its very own: symphony, Theatre Players, Historic Old Village, library, historical museum, and farmer's market.

There truly is no place on Earth like Plymouth. Whatever your pleasure, Plymouth's commitment to total community involvement results in activities available for residents of all ages. The City of Plymouth operates the Plymouth Cultural Center that offers many leisure time activities in arts and crafts, judo, acting, ballet, tap, jazzercise, gymnastics, figure skating, soccer, volleyball, football, basketball, hockey, and softball. Residents and many visitors enjoy not only the community's fine shopping but delectable restaurants, Hines park, golf, skating, water sports, bike trails, the famous Ice Sculpture Spectacular and Fall Festival, art fairs, and much, much, more.

If education is a priority, Plymouth is the place to be. An outstanding teaching and support staff has made the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools respected throughout the state. The District consists of three high schools, five middle schools, and fifteen elementary schools. Plymouth-Canton Community School District boasts the only educational park in the State of Michigan, known as the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park (P-CEP). Park facilities include laboratories, practice areas and a large auditorium for the performing arts and modern laboratories for the sciences, business, life management and technology education. For higher education, the outstanding University of Michigan is located just 20 minutes away in Ann Arbor.


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