Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R2 zoning in Dexter-Linwood, home to Sacred Heart Seminary.
Search this neighborhoodAbout 7,900 people live in Dexter-Linwood. Oakman Blvd Community lies to its north, Boston Edison and Jamison to the south, Highland Park and Gateway Community to the east, and Nardin Park and Russell Woods to the west. Inside it are Sidney Barthwell Park, a 5.9-acre neighborhood park, Central High School, and Sacred Heart Seminary, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Three locally designated historic districts also fall inside it.
Zoning is a mix of Two-Family Residential (R2) and Medium Density Residential (R5), with areas of Single-Family Residential (R1) and Low Density Residential (R3). DDOT Route 38 Plymouth, DDOT Route 29 Linwood, DDOT Route 18 Fenkell and DDOT Route 15 Chicago-Davison serve Dexter-Linwood, with stops inside its outline.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Dexter-Linwood, counted by the neighborhood the department tags each report with. The feed leaves out hit-and-run traffic accidents, runaway and found-property records, recovered-vehicle records and unfounded cases, and reports taken by the Hamtramck, Highland Park, Dearborn and Grosse Pointe police departments are not in it. CivicScout does not have traffic crash data for Detroit.
View safety data →The most common permit types issued in Dexter-Linwood over the past year are alteration permits and change of use permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Dexter-Linwood is a mix of Two-Family Residential (R2) and Medium Density Residential (R5), by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →A CivicScout report for any Dexter-Linwood address combines permits, police incidents, 311 requests, food inspections, parks and zoning within a half mile. Police incidents and permits on the neighborhood page follow the official neighborhood outline; the other layers use the area around the neighborhood center.
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