Trotwood is two places joined in 1996. The old village, first platted as Higgins Station in 1854 and incorporated in 1901, merged that year with what was left of Madison Township, which had existed since 1809. The merger brought in a large rural area of farms, golf courses and estates, and the city now covers about 30.5 square miles. A drive in the village grid and a lane out past Sycamore State Park are very different jobs, and this page covers both.
For a number right away, sealcoating is priced exactly at the instant price page, and the paving range is at the paving price page.
According to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 2024 five year estimates, the median Trotwood home was built in 1963. Half of all homes, 50.4 percent, date from the 1950s and 1960s, and 9.2 percent were built before 1940, which is the old village core showing through. Only about 1 percent were built in 2010 or later. Around 70 percent are single family detached houses and 2 percent are mobile homes. Owners occupy 57.6 percent of homes, and the median value is $113,200.
Those numbers say something practical. Most Trotwood drives are sixty or more years from their first asphalt, and many have been patched, overlaid or partly replaced along the way by different hands. A drive with that history is rarely one material all the way through, and the quote has to deal with the patchwork rather than pretend it is one surface.
On Memorial Day 2019 an EF4 tornado crossed Trotwood. Wikipedia's account of the storm puts the damage in the city at about 500 homes, with 59 destroyed. Rebuilding meant roll off dumpsters, roofing deliveries, concrete trucks and equipment sitting on residential driveways for weeks at a time. Asphalt is not built for that kind of point load. A drive that hosted a dumpster often shows it years later as a rectangle of cracking or a shallow depression where the steel rails sat.
If yours carried that load, the damaged area is usually a patch: cut out to sound asphalt, base checked and recompacted, new hot asphalt in. Sealing over a crushed area hides it for a season and nothing more. Our driveway repair guide explains how a patch is done properly.
A driveway should be priced against what it protects, and with a median home value a little over $113,000 the honest advice is to spend where it changes the outcome. That usually means repair the failed spots, then overlay or seal, and save a full tear out for a drive whose base has actually failed.
Paving has a $2,500 minimum. As plain arithmetic on those ranges, a 400 square foot single car drive overlaid at $3.50 to $4.20 comes to $1,400 to $1,680, so the minimum is what you would pay; it often makes sense to fold the apron or a parking pad into the same visit. Nothing is final until we have talked by phone and looked at the base in person, and then you get a written number. See the paving range for your drive.
The rural side. A long lane off a former township road, out toward Sycamore State Park on North Diamond Mill Road, is mostly a question of edges and length. Its edges usually meet gravel or grass, and long runs are where paving a gravel drive pays back, because a gravel lane is regraded forever and a paved one is sealed every few years.
Driveways, sidewalks, curb and gutter in the right-of-way go through one form, the Right-of-Way/Excavation Permit from the Public Works Department at 2400 Olive Road, 937-837-1702. The packet posted on the city's site is marked effective 25 August 2015, so the fees below are what it says, and the current amounts get confirmed with Public Works before they go on a quote:
The same form has a box for a floodplain permit. Wolf Creek runs through the city, so a lot near it may need that check as well. Sealing and crack filling that stay on your own side of the sidewalk are not on the permit form.
For a drive that is still in one piece, sealing is the low cost way to slow it down. It is priced per square foot with a $300 minimum, crack filling is part of that price, and the instant price map gives you the exact figure once you trace the drive. Patched drives take sealer well as long as the patches themselves are sound.
Usually with a patch: the crushed section is cut out, the base is checked, and new hot asphalt goes in. Then the whole drive can be sealed so it reads as one surface.
Often, on a lane that is used every day. New asphalt runs $4.20 to $5.50 per square foot online, and length is the main cost, so we look at whether paving the part near the house first makes sense.
Trotwood Public Works, 2400 Olive Road, 937-837-1702. The 2015 packet lists permit hours as weekdays from 8:00 to 3:30.
Trotwood is in our Montgomery County area. Nearby: Huber Heights to the east and Kettering across Dayton to the south.
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Sources: City of Trotwood driveway, sidewalk, curb and gutter page; Trotwood Right-of-Way/Excavation permit packet; Trotwood on Wikipedia; National Weather Service Wilmington, 2019 tornado review; Census ACS 2024 5 year, tables B25035, B25034, B25003, B25024 and B25077, via Census Reporter.
