Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R1 zoning in McDowell.
Search this neighborhoodAbout 2,800 people live in McDowell. Within its boundaries are the 18.2-acre Van Antwerp Park community park, West Outer Drive, Wyoming Street and West 7 Mile Road, and the schools MacDowell Preparatory Academy and Bates Academy, which both serve kindergarten through grade 8.
Zoning is mostly Single-Family Residential (R1), about 86 percent of the zoned area, with smaller areas of Two-Family Residential (R2) and Local Business and Residential (B2). DDOT buses that stop inside the neighborhood include DDOT Route 54 Wyoming and DDOT Route 7 Seven Mile.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for McDowell, 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 McDowell 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 McDowell 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 McDowell 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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