Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R2 zoning in Mexicantown, along West Vernor Highway.
Search this neighborhoodMexicantown is bordered by Central Southwest to the north, Hubbard Farms and West Side Industrial to the south, West Side Industrial to the east and Hubbard Farms to the west. It has about 550 residents. West Grand Boulevard, the West Fisher Freeway and West Vernor Highway run through it. The Boulevard House / El Museo del Norte, Covenant High School Southwest, a school serving grades 9 through 12, and Deliverance Center are inside the outline.
Zoning is a mix: Two-Family Residential (R2) and Low Density Residential (R3) each cover about 29 percent of the zoned land, with Medium Density Residential (R5) and General Business (B4) at about 16 percent each. DDOT Route 27 Joy and DDOT Route 1 Vernor stop inside the neighborhood. Few people live inside the outline, so this page shows reported-incident counts and no per-resident rate.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Mexicantown, 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 →Few building permits were issued in Mexicantown over the past year in the City of Detroit's permit data (fewer than five).
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Mexicantown is a mix of Two-Family Residential (R2) and Low Density Residential (R3), 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 Mexicantown 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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