Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R2 zoning in Nortown, home to the 14.4-acre Lipke Park.
Search this neighborhoodNortown has Sherwood and Conner Creek to the north, Grant and Mount Olivet to the south, Conner Creek and Pulaski to the east and Sherwood to the west, and about 3,400 residents. Inside it are Lipke Park, a 14.4-acre community park, and the streets East Outer Drive, East 7 Mile Road, Van Dyke Street and Sherwood Street.
Zoning is a mix, led by Two-Family Residential (R2) and Single-Family Residential (R1). DDOT bus routes that stop inside it include DDOT Route 5 Van Dyke-Lafayette, DDOT Route 40 Russell, DDOT Route 7 Seven Mile and DDOT Route 32 McNichols.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Nortown, 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 Nortown over the past year are alteration permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Nortown is a mix of Two-Family Residential (R2) and 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 Nortown 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 Nortown to see building permits, safety data, zoning details, and AI-powered neighborhood reports.
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