Explore Detroit building permits, police incident data, and R6 zoning in Wayne State, the Wayne State University campus.
Search this neighborhoodWayne State lies between Tech Town and Elijah McCoy to the north and Midtown and Jeffries to the south, with Woodbridge to the west and Cultural Center to the east. Wayne State University, the Main Library, the Detroit Historical Museum and the Reuther Library are inside it, along with National Register of Historic Places entries such as the Maccabees Building, the Cultural Center Historic District and the East Ferry Avenue Historic District. Cass Avenue and Woodward Avenue run through the area.
Zoning is mostly High Density Residential (R6), about 69 percent of sampled parcels, with Planned Development (PD) at 13 percent. DDOT Route 8 Warren, DDOT Route 16 Dexter, DDOT Route 23 Hamilton and DDOT Route 42 Mid-City Loop stop inside, and there is a Ferry Street streetcar stop.
CivicScout tracks Detroit Police Department incidents that carry a location for Wayne State, 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 Wayne State 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 Wayne State is mostly High Density Residential (R6), 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 Wayne State 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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