The city of Plymouth, with its active citizenship of approximately 9,022 is one of the oldest communities in Michigan. It is a city that combines a delightful, small town feeling with a rich variety of cultural and recreational activities, ample shopping, and thriving businesses. It offers easy access to major urban areas, world-class industrial parks and high quality housing. In Plymouth, everything is at your fingertips --- who could ask for more?
Location
Plymouth is located in western Wayne County, in the Detroit metro area. It is in Southeastern Michigan between Detroit and Ann Arbor. Plymouth developed around the "golden corridor", along the M-14 freeway. Plymouth is located 22 miles west of Detroit, 12 miles east of Ann Arbor, and 48 miles north of Toledo, Ohio.
Geography/Terrain
The city of Plymouth has a total area of 2.2 square miles and 0.45% is water.
Plymouth is situated on the River Rouge. The middle branch of the river flows from Northville, south through Northville Township and Plymouth Township before turning to the southeast in the city of Plymouth. From Plymouth, it continues through the southwest corner of Livonia into Westland.
Jobs
The industrial and high tech companies in Plymouth have a well-trained and capable labor force as well as a prime location at the edge of the industrial/urban heartland. Over 72 percent of the region’s occupations are in the fields of management, professional specialty occupations, technical services, sales, and administrative support services. The area is well suited for light industrial and high-tech and research development and is home to many of the word’s best-known high-tech companies. The DeMattia Corporation has built several high-tech industrial parks along the M-14 corridor and the Metro West Parks house over eighty businesses, including Freudenberg NOK, TRAM, Valassis, SKF and Visteon operations.
Plymouth has a median household income of $76,404, and a low unemployment rate of 2.3%. The average time to travel to work in the city is 24.3 minutes.
Housing
There is considerable residential development in Plymouth and a wide range of housing possibilities. The city offers upscale housing in attractive subdivisions, close to freeways and employment opportunities. The average price of a single family home in Plymouth is approximately $289,000
Recreation
Plymouth offers over fifty recreation programs, an NHL-size ice arena and twelve parks. Some of the various activities found here are bowling, camping, canoeing, boating, golf, hiking, and horseback riding. Also, the Recreation and Cultural Center offers a wide variety of activities for all ages. Plymouth has a first class ice arena, which is home to the Plymouth Whalers Hockey Team and is also open to the general public for ice-skating and other activities.
A wide variety of amenities and activities are available in the city’s parks.
Kellogg Park is the center of the city's business district and focal point for the many civic, social and commercial activities in the area. It is reminiscent of a New England common, with its wide expanse of grass, shade trees, and its beautiful fountain. The Park hosts Music in the Park on Fridays and a wide variety of other special events such as Art in the Park and the Plymouth Fall Festival.
Plymouth Township Park covers eighty acres and includes a playscape area, four Little League baseball diamonds, a walking path with trails up to one mile long, a fishing pond and dock, ice skating and sledding.
Lake Pointe Soccer Park is a three and a half acre neighborhood park and a top-notch soccer park. It has two soccer fields and a play area.
Two small, neighborhood walk-in parks in Plymouth are Brentwood Park and Miller Family Park.
The St. Johns Seminary and Golf Course has a golf course and golf school. This 18-hole public course is built on rolling terrain, and its undulating greens are difficult to read and well bunkered.
Hilltop Golf Course overlooks stately pines and rolling hills, and features a classical layout with some of the area's most challenging greens. This public18-hole course has tree-lined fairways and subtly contoured greens.
Brae Burn Golf Club is an 18-hole championship course renown for its fast undulating greens and is "Home of the Monster", a 617 yard, par 5, double dog leg. The course's greens are fast and somewhat contoured, and the fairways are open with sand and grass bunkers.
Fox Hills Country Club is a public, 63-hole course. It has five outstanding courses; one eighteen-hole course, three nine-hole courses that are played in eighteen-hole combinations, and an eighteen-hole par 3 course.
The Golden Fox Course is its championship course, and has narrow fairways and marshlands incorporated into its design. The most challenging of the three nine-hole courses is the Lakes/Hills Course. The Strategic Fox, an eighteen-hole, par 3 course, is the most recent addition to Fox Hills.
Special Attractions/Events
Downtown Plymouth has a vibrant downtown with an abundance of unique shops, restaurants and galleries, surrounding a beautiful park.
Kellogg Park, the hub of the community, hosts delightful concerts and festivals all year-round as well as horse drawn carriage rides on the weekends. Some of the annual special events are the Fall Festival, the Ice Sculpture Spectacular and Art in the Park.
Plymouth is home to the Plymouth Symphony, the Plymouth Theatre Players, the Historic Old Village, the Plymouth Library, the Historical Museum, and the Farmer's Market. It also has a Cultural Center where various classes, meetings and receptions are held.
Interesting Facts/Historic Buildings and Places
Plymouth was settled at the site where three Potawatomi Indian trails converged at the Rouge River. The first settlers arrived in 1825, and named the township after the first American settlement at Plymouth Rock.
Plymouth’s commercial center was once known as "Podunk" and a former name for the city was Plymouth Corners.
Plymouth is the birthplace of Jake Powers, a college football player for the Brown Bears, and Kerry Zavagnin, a major league soccer player. It is home to Tom Hulce, an actor.
Plymouth's first newspaper, the Plymouth Mail, began publishing in 1887.
During the Civil War days, Michael Conner, the village president and local hardware merchant, organized and led the first Plymouth band. Since that time, a series of local brass bands have continued to play, either in Kellogg Park, or at the Plymouth Fairgrounds.
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