Fifty Residents or Six
Cedar Woods Assisted Living starts at $3,800 a month, the lower of the city's two figures and the one attached to the larger building, fifty beds on the South I-94 Service Drive. Sumpter Senior Living starts at $4,500 for a place in a six-resident house on Sumpter Road. The 2026 city average of $4,150 falls between them and matches neither, which is what happens when a market has two addresses and no middle.
The larger figure belongs to the smaller house, and the arithmetic behind that states plainly enough: six residents share the cost of round-the-clock staffing, a kitchen and a heating bill, where fifty divide the same kinds of cost far more thinly. What the higher number buys is not more care but less rotation, because a house that size runs on the same few caregivers shift after shift and a resident sees familiar faces every day of the week.
Where a Belleville Quote Moves
Both figures are starting prices, and the assessment each building runs beforehand decides where a household actually lands. Independence with prompts sits at one end and full hands-on assistance at the other, and a building's levels are simply the steps drawn between them. At six residents the far end of that scale runs up against what a small staff can carry.
The second factor is unusual to Belleville and worth understanding before touring. Sumpter Senior Living is locked end to end, so a resident there lives behind a secured door from the first day and there is no later move into a secured wing and no later change of rate that goes with one. The twenty-eight secured beds at Cedar Woods Assisted Living sit in a separate area, so an assisted living resident who later needs that setting moves within the building and is quoted again when they do.
Room type barely registers at either address, since a six-bed house has almost nothing to choose between and the larger building's rooms sit closer together than a city market's would.
What the Rate Replaces at Home
What is bundled at both addresses: living space, food, clean clothes, a clean room, company, and cover at three in the morning as much as at three in the afternoon, with hands-on help included as deep as the assessment goes. Set against staying in a Belleville house, that single number takes the place of a mortgage or rent, the utility bills, the grocery run, and whatever a few hours of paid help each week had been costing.
What does not sit inside the rate: the entry fee, the assessed care level, incontinence products and the labor of managing them, the salon, and the pharmacy bill, along with personal phone and internet. Appointments are the local wrinkle, because Belleville sits between two hospital systems roughly fourteen miles out in opposite directions, so a resident's records and their escorted trips can end up split between Trinity Health Ann Arbor to the west and Corewell Health Taylor to the east.
The Paperwork Michigan Wants First
Admission at either address waits on a physician's statement, a tuberculosis screening and a full medication list, and in Belleville that file takes longer to assemble than families expect because the pieces often come from two different hospital systems. Start requesting records the same week the search starts, not the week a room opens.
With fifty-six senior living beds in the whole city, availability is the other constraint, and the six-bed house in particular has a room only when a resident leaves it. Complete the assessment at both addresses even after a household has decided, since a finished assessment is what lets a family take a room that comes free on short notice.