Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R1 zoning in Joy-Schaefer, where Joy Road and Schaefer Highway run through.
Search this neighborhoodJoy-Schaefer borders We Care Community to the north, Dearborn to the south, Aviation Sub to the east and Fiskhorn to the west. About 1,100 residents live here. Belton-Mark Twain Park is a 4.2-acre neighborhood park and Wolf Park a 0.7-acre mini park. Schaefer Highway and Joy Road are the neighborhood's longest streets.
Zoning is a mix of Single-Family Residential (R1) and Intensive Industrial (M4), with General Business (B4) and Restricted Industrial (M2) in smaller areas. DDOT Route 41 Schaefer, Route 27 Joy and Route 47 Tireman stop inside the neighborhood.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Joy-Schaefer, 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-Schaefer 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 Joy-Schaefer is a mix of Single-Family Residential (R1) and Intensive Industrial (M4), 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-Schaefer 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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