Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R1 zoning in Farwell, home to the 28.6-acre Dorais Park.
Search this neighborhoodFarwell has Warren to the north, Krainz Woods and Pershing to the south, Sherwood to the east and Pershing and Butler to the west, and about 7,000 residents. Inside it are Dorais Park, a 28.6-acre community park, Syracuse Park, a 3.8-acre neighborhood park, Farwell Recreation Center, and the streets East Outer Drive, Mound Road and Ryan Road.
Zoning is mostly Single-Family Residential (R1), with Intensive Industrial (M4) next. DDOT bus routes that stop inside it include DDOT Route 40 Russell, DDOT Route 7 Seven Mile and DDOT Route 17 Eight Mile.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Farwell, 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 Farwell over the past year are alteration permits and residential rehab permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Farwell is mostly Single-Family Residential (R1), 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 Farwell 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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