Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R2 zoning in Penrose.
Search this neighborhoodAbout 960 people live in Penrose. Within its boundaries are the 2.9-acre State Fair-Greyling Park neighborhood park, Woodward Avenue and West 7 Mile Road. Two schools on the current Michigan school list are inside: Greenfield Union Elementary-Middle School (kindergarten through grade 8) and The International Vocations and Careers School (grades 10 through 12).
Zoning is mostly Two-Family Residential (R2), about 69 percent of the zoned area, with smaller areas of General Business (B4) and Planned Development (PD). DDOT buses that stop inside the neighborhood include DDOT Route 7 Seven Mile, DDOT Route 4 Woodward and DDOT Route 12 Conant.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Penrose, 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 Penrose 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 Penrose is mostly Two-Family Residential (R2), 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 Penrose 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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