Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R1 zoning in Palmer Park, home to a 297-acre regional park.
Search this neighborhoodPalmer Park is home to roughly 1,400 residents. Within its boundaries are the 297-acre Palmer Park regional park, Pontchartrain Boulevard, Merrill Plaisance Street and Woodward Avenue. The Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the Palmer Park Apartment Buildings are a locally designated historic district.
Zoning is mostly Single-Family Residential (R1), with smaller areas of Medium Density Residential (R5). DDOT buses that stop inside the neighborhood include DDOT Route 4 Woodward, DDOT Route 7 Seven Mile, DDOT Route 23 Hamilton and DDOT Route 32 McNichols.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Palmer Park, 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 Palmer Park 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 Palmer Park 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 Palmer Park 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 Palmer Park to see building permits, safety data, zoning details, and AI-powered neighborhood reports.
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