Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R1 zoning in Garden Homes.
Search this neighborhoodGarden Homes is bordered by Royal Oak Township and Ferndale to the north, Oak Grove District 2 to the south, Green Acres to the east and Pembroke and McDowell to the west, and has about 3,000 residents. Within its boundaries are Pembroke Avenue and Joe Louis Park, plus the Johnson Recreation Center. William E. Higginbotham Elementary School is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and Johnson Recreation Center and Joe Louis Playfield and the William E. Higginbotham School are locally designated historic districts.
Zoning is mostly Single-Family Residential (R1), with smaller areas of General Business (B4) and Restricted Industrial (M2). DDOT buses that stop inside the neighborhood include DDOT Route 54 Wyoming and DDOT Route 17 Eight Mile.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Garden Homes, 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 Garden Homes over the past year are alteration permits and change of occupancy/use permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Garden Homes 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 Garden Homes 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.
Search an address →Search an address in Garden Homes to see building permits, safety data, zoning details, and AI-powered neighborhood reports.
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