Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R1 zoning in Palmer Woods, a National Register historic district.
Search this neighborhoodPalmer Woods is bordered by Green Acres to the north, Palmer Park and Detroit Golf to the south, Penrose to the east and Sherwood Forest to the west. It has about 680 residents. The Palmer Woods Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the Turkel-Benbow House is a locally designated historic district. Woodward-7 Mile Park and West 7 Mile Road are inside the outline.
Zoning is mostly Single-Family Residential (R1), by area. DDOT Route 7 Seven Mile and DDOT Route 4 Woodward 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 Palmer Woods, 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 Palmer Woods over the past year are alteration permits and correct violation permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Palmer Woods 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 Woods 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 Woods to see building permits, safety data, zoning details, and AI-powered neighborhood reports.
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