Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R1 zoning in Joy Community, home to the 36.7-acre Stoepel No. 2 Park.
Search this neighborhoodJoy Community borders Plymouth-I96 to the north, Garden View and Warren Ave Community to the south, We Care Community and Plymouth-Hubbell to the east and Franklin Park to the west. About 4,500 residents live here. Stoepel No. 2 Park is a 36.7-acre community park, and Fitzpatrick-Southfield Park is a 6.7-acre neighborhood park. West Chicago Street, Southfield Road, Plymouth Road and Joy Road are among the neighborhood's longest streets.
Zoning is mostly Single-Family Residential (R1), with Two-Family Residential (R2) and General Business (B4) in smaller areas. DDOT Route 15 Chicago-Davison, Route 27 Joy, Route 38 Plymouth and Route 10 Greenfield are among the bus routes that stop inside it.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Joy Community, 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 Joy Community 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 Joy Community 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 Joy Community 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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