Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R2 zoning in Elmwood Park, with the 16.4-acre Elmwood-Central Park.
Search this neighborhoodElmwood Park has about 6,900 residents and lies south of McDougall-Hunt, north of Rivertown, west of Islandview and east of Lafayette Park. Elmwood Park is crossed by East Larned Street, Chene Street and East Lafayette Street. Its parks include Elmwood-Central Park at 16.4 acres and Young Park at 12.4 acres, both community parks, and Dues Park, a 7.1-acre neighborhood park. Elmwood Park Library, Coleman A. Young Recreation Center and Engine 9 fire station are inside, and Sidney D. Miller School is a locally designated historic district.
Zoning is a mix led by Two-Family Residential (R2) and High Density Residential (R6), with Planned Development (PD) also present. Inside Elmwood Park, riders can board DDOT Route 52 Chene, DDOT Route 67 Cadillac-Harper, DDOT Route 5 Van Dyke-Lafayette, and DDOT Route 9 Jefferson.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Elmwood Park, 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 Elmwood Park over the past year are alteration permits and add additional occupancy/use permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Elmwood Park is a mix of Two-Family Residential (R2) and High Density Residential (R6), 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 Elmwood Park 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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