North Lake, Webbs Landing and Sauer Road
The northwest corner on North Lake, which the township shares with Lyndon Township, with North Lake Road, Webb's Shore Drive, Edgewater Drive, Gilbert Drive, Sauer Road, the North Lake Orchard streets and Aberdeen Road. In the 2020 count about 440 homes in this block group sat in the Gregory 48137 ZIP area, all in Chelsea School District, and the township history notes the North Lake Methodist Episcopal Church dates to 1836. For the whole block group, which reaches east to Silver Lake, the Census puts owner values near $462,000 with a wide margin of about $77,200 and the typical home in 1980.
Halfmoon, Crooked and Pickerel lakes by the recreation area
The lake country along the Pinckney Recreation Area, where Crooked, Pickerel, Losee and Dead lakes lie wholly inside the township and Halfmoon Lake runs across its north line. About 42 homes on Shore Drive by Halfmoon Lake take Pinckney 48169 mail yet sit in Chelsea School District. The recreation area's headquarters at 8555 Silver Hill Road carries a Pinckney address, and the Census geocoder places it in Dexter Township and Dexter Community Schools. State land here pays the township a payment in lieu of taxes rather than a tax bill.
Silver Lake, Toma Road and Losee Lake
Silver Lake, shared with Putnam Township in Livingston County, with Silver Hill Road, Toma Road, Thumm Road, Cedar Drive and the north end of Dexter Townhall Road, plus Timber Ridge Court and Fox Ridge Drive near Losee Lake. About 107 homes here are in Pinckney Community Schools, the largest group the district has in the township, with about 28 more Pinckney mail homes and about 86 Dexter 48130 homes in Dexter Community Schools. Parcels with deeded Silver Lake access pay the county's lake improvement assessment.
Portage Lake shore and McGregor Road
The Portage Lake side in the northeast, with Grove Drive, Algonquin Drive, Shell Beach Road, Portage Lake Avenue, Ross Drive, Portage Boulevard and McGregor Road, where Ore Creek Craft Cider sits at 9280 McGregor Rd, Pinckney, inside the township and Dexter Community Schools. About 334 homes in this part of the block group had Pinckney 48169 mail and Dexter schools in 2020. The township's population grew in part as cottages around the lakes became year-round houses, and the Census puts the block group's typical build year at 1960, the oldest in the township. Its owner median near $372,200 carries a margin of about $217,100, so lakefront and off-lake prices here are far apart.
Winston Road, Willis Drive and the Portage River mouth
A cluster of streets off Winston Road, Willis Drive, Betty Place, Stanette Drive and Florence Avenue near where the Portage River meets the lakes. About 92 homes here sit in Pinckney Community Schools while their neighbors a few roads over are in Dexter Community Schools, so this is where a mailing address tells you least about the school code.
Little Portage Lake, Stinchfield Woods and Peach Mountain
The streets between Little Portage Lake and North Territorial Road, including Huron River Court, Peach Mountain Lane and Stinchfield Woods Road, next to the Stinchfield Woods preserve and the Reichert Nature Preserve, 92 acres with frontage on Little Portage Lake and Portage Creek that is open by written permission. About 117 homes here use Dexter 48130 mail and sit in Dexter Community Schools. The old Dover hamlet, where Samuel Dexter's Dover Mills once stood, is in this corner.
Riker Lake, Bolen Court and Quail Hollow
The southwest around Riker Lake, with Riker Road, Bolen Court, East and West Quail Hollow Court, Westbourne and Eastbourne drives, Red Barn Circle, Oak Ridge Lane, Stillwater Drive and Hayrake Hollow, and the Inverness Country Club golf course nearby. About 346 homes here have Chelsea 48118 mail and Chelsea School District. For the block group the Census owner median is near $460,000 and the typical home dates from 1992, with every occupied home owner-occupied.
Colby Road, Quigley Road and North Territorial
The middle of the township along Colby Road, Quigley Road, Madden Road and Oak Hill Drive, near the old Catholic cemetery at Quigley and Dexter Townhall roads. About 91 homes here carry Dexter 48130 mail and Dexter Community Schools, beside the Chelsea district homes to the west. The Multi Lake Water and Sewer Authority keeps its office at 12088 N. Territorial Rd, which the Census geocoder also places in the township.
West Lake Preserve, McKinley and Waterloo roads
The south side by the West Lake Preserve and its 2.22-mile rustic trail, with McKinley Road, McKinley Heights Drive and Court, Waterloo Road and Westbury Drive. About 147 homes in this block group are in Chelsea School District, most of them with Chelsea 48118 mail and about 21 with Dexter 48130 mail along North Lima Center Road. The Census owner median for the block group is near $500,800, the highest in the township, with a margin of about $85,000.
North Oxford, King Hill and Stoney Field
Subdivision streets toward Four Mile Lake and Island Lake Road, among them North Oxford Court, King Hill Drive, Starfield Court, Fieldstone Drive, East Stoney Field Drive and Island Hills Drive. About 182 homes here are in Dexter Community Schools with Dexter mail. The block group's typical build year is 2000, the newest in the township, and all of its homes are detached and owner-occupied.
Huron Creek, Mountain View and the township hall
The southeast along Dexter-Pinckney Road, where the township hall stands at 6880 Dexter-Pinckney Rd, with Huron Creek Drive and Court, Mountain View, Westwind Drive, Sundance Trail, Castleton Court and Patna Drive. Every one of the roughly 743 homes in this block group in 2020 had Dexter 48130 mail and Dexter Community Schools. The Census owner median is near $473,200 and the typical home dates from 1986.
Hudson Mills, Harris Road and Huron River Drive
The east edge along the Huron River, around Hudson Mills Metropark at 8801 N. Territorial Rd, with Harris Road, Fleming Road, Horseshoe Bend and Island Lake Road, and the Border to Border Trail running between Dexter and the park. The township's zoning ordinance requires a state Natural River zoning permit before anyone clears, excavates or builds inside the river's natural river zone, which matters for an addition or a new garage near the water.