Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Detroit (2024)
Detroit's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these Detroit neighborhoods are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The Detroit neighborhoods at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Detroit Detroit neighborhoods.
Volume, not a safety rate. Detroit neighborhood resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the Detroit neighborhood (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Detroit zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked highest reported volume first
Not the same Detroit neighborhoods as the safest neighborhoods in detroit list.
- 1Warrendale0/100
- 2Downtown2/100
- 3Midtown29/100
- 4Bethune Community31/100
- 5Franklin Park35/100
- 6Dexter-Linwood36/100
- 7Outer Drive-Hayes37/100
- 8Brightmoor37/100
- 9Barton-Mcfarland38/100
- 10Oakman Blvd Community39/100
- 11Regent Park46/100
- 12Morningside46/100
- 13Cornerstone Village46/100
- 14Fitzgerald/Marygrove51/100
- 15Midwest52/100
- 16Nolan55/100
- 17Mapleridge55/100
- 18Claytown55/100
- 19Bagley55/100
- 20Springwells56/100
- 21Schulze56/100
- 22Central Southwest56/100
- 23Greenfield57/100
- 24Farwell59/100
- 25Moross-Morang62/100
- 26Crary/St Marys62/100
- 27Airport Sub62/100
- 28Winship63/100
- 29Warren Ave Community63/100
- 30Holcomb Community63/100
- 31College Park64/100
- 32Elmwood Park65/100
- 33Pulaski66/100
- 34Joy Community67/100
- 35Evergreen-Outer Drive67/100
- 36Plymouth-Hubbell68/100
- 37Yorkshire Woods70/100
- 38Hubbell-Lyndon70/100
- 39Von Steuben71/100
- 40Virginia Park Community71/100
Showing the top 40 of 203 Detroit neighborhoods.
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2024. See the full methodology →