Listed by community: Home construction in 2009 totaled 9 percent of 2004 levels in Washtenaw County

The areas with the highest activity in 2009:

• Pittsfield Township, with 32. • Lima Township, with 23. • Superior Township, with 22.

The falloff from peak home production years in both Superior and Pittsfield townships is well over 100 units - resulting in a percentage drop of about 75 and 90 percent respectively.

But in Lima, which escaped the big building boom in 2004 due to its lack of sewer access, only saw a 50 percent drop.

Here are the single-family building permit numbers, by municipality, for all of Washtenaw County. Totals from 2004 are in parenthesis.

Ann Arbor - 9 (2004: 55) Ann Arbor Township - 0 (2004: 13) Bridgewater Township - 0 (2004: 10) Chelsea - 3 (2004: 52) Dexter - 8 (2004: 82) Dexter Township - 8 (2004: 77) Freedom Township - 1 (2004: 8) Lima Township - 23 (2004: 45) Lodi Township - 2 (2004: 69) Lyndon Township - 1 (2004: 20) Manchester - 0 (2004: 15) Manchester Township - 3 (2004: 22) Milan (Washtenaw portion) - 6 (2004: 89) Northfield Township - 3 (2004: 19) Pittsfield Township - 32 (2004: 167) Saline - 0 (2004: 38) Saline Township - 2 (2004: 7) Scio Township - 5 (2004: 91) Sharon Township - 1 (2004: 16) Superior Township - 22 (2004: 201) Webster Township - 2 (2004: 73) York Township - 3 (2004: 50) Ypsilanti - 2 (2004: 5) Ypsilanti Township - 13 (2004: 419)

Washtenaw County - 2009: 157 (2004: 1,775)