Clarkston keeps its two senior-living buildings on two different roads and gives them different jobs. Monark Grove Clarkston on Sashabaw Road carries 83 beds and runs apartments, assisted living and a secured neighborhood, while Serene Gardens of Clarkston on White Lake Road holds 58 beds across assisted living and memory care, bringing the village to 141 beds with 40 secured.
Oakland County counts roughly 250,500 residents past 65, and the northern townships around Clarkston draw a steady number of them, which is how a village this small supports two buildings of that size.
The Two Clarkston Buildings and What They Cover
One address runs the full ladder and the other starts a rung higher, which decides most searches here before price enters the conversation.
- Independent Living: Monark Grove Clarkston is the only address with apartments, at $3,800 a month, and moving into assisted living there costs only $450 more.
- Assisted Living: Both carry it, at $4,250 at Monark Grove and $5,359 at Serene Gardens, a difference of $1,109 for the same level of help.
- Memory Care: Both run secured neighborhoods holding 20 beds apiece, 40 in the village altogether, and the two rates sit within $30 of each other.
- Skilled Nursing: Neither address carries it; nursing-level care in this part of Oakland County runs through the hospital route instead.
A household expecting memory care eventually will find the two converge at that level, so the decision is which suits the years before it.
Healthcare Access in the Village of Clarkston
Clarkston has no hospital of its own and reaches three within a short drive, which is comfortable rather than a gap. Pontiac lies closest, where Trinity Health Oakland and McLaren Oakland each hold Level II trauma verification, carrying 814 beds between them and keeping trauma surgeons available at all hours.
DMC Huron Valley-Sinai in Commerce Township adds 153 beds to the west along with the Krieger Center for Senior Adults, and Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital takes much of the surgical volume to the south with 520 beds. Anything beyond a Level II goes to the Level I hospital at Royal Oak.
What Clarkston Pricing Looks Like
The pattern here is unusual, because the two buildings sit $1,109 apart on assisted living in 2026, at $4,250 at Monark Grove Clarkston and $5,359 at Serene Gardens of Clarkston, and then converge almost exactly on memory care at $5,890 and $5,920.
That means the step up from assisted living costs $1,640 at Monark Grove and only $561 at Serene Gardens. A household entering at assisted living pays less at Monark Grove, and a household entering directly into memory care pays roughly the same wherever it goes.
Why Families Choose the Village of Clarkston
Independence Oaks sits on the same road as Monark Grove and is the largest of the Oakland County parks at 1,286 acres, close enough that residents reach it without an expedition being planned around it.
Depot Park and Deer Lake Beach keep the village walkable, and the historic centre gives Clarkston the feel of a small town inside a large county.
What a Local Advisor Brings to the Village of Clarkston
With memory-care rates this close together, the useful knowledge in Clarkston is about which building suits a person now and which will still suit them in three years. A Local Senior Advisor covering northern Oakland County tracks turnover across the 40 secured beds, knows how a Pontiac discharge sequences into either address, and can explain how the MI Choice waiver applies to the care hours rather than to the roof over them.
Our directory for the Village of Clarkston continues to grow as we evaluate providers for quality and alignment in 2026. Reach out for a conversation about senior living in the Village of Clarkston, or browse the communities we have vetted at your own pace.
