The properties in orange in the above map represent approximately 7000 properties throughout Washtenaw County that contain a racially-restrictive covenant. (You can also view a larger version of this map that may be easier to navigate.)

To see if where you live has a racially-restrictive covenant, please use the search bar and enter your address. You can also click on any covenanted property for more information, including a link to the original property record with the racially-restrictive covenant. Please note that not every covenanted property is represented on this map, as we are still working on mapping as many properties as possible. 

You will see very large areas as represented as having a covenant. Over time, properties were combined together, and as a result, while only one part of a property originally had a covenant, that entire combined property will be represented on the map as having a covenant. 

You can download a copy of our dataset, which includes properties mapped above as well as unmapped covenanted properties, at this Github repository.   

If you think there is an error on the map, you know that your property should be represented, or you have any other questions, please email us at justiceindeedmi@umich.edu.

We are grateful to the more than 1000 volunteers who helped us with our community crowdsourcing project, as well as the assistance of the Washtenaw County Clerk / Register of Deeds and the Washtenaw County GIS department for helping make this map possible.