Safest 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 fewest 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 lowest reported volume first
Not the same Detroit neighborhoods as the most dangerous neighborhoods in detroit list.
- 1Arden Park100/100
- 2Joseph Berry Sub100/100
- 3Melvern Hill100/100
- 4Virginia Park100/100
- 5Waterworks Park100/100
- 6Carbon Works99/100
- 7Detroit Golf99/100
- 8Historic Atkinson99/100
- 9Hubbard Richard99/100
- 10Medbury Park99/100
- 11Oakwood Heights99/100
- 12Russell Industrial99/100
- 13Tri-Point99/100
- 14East Canfield98/100
- 15Indian Village98/100
- 16Marina District98/100
- 17Mexicantown98/100
- 18Old Redford98/100
- 19Palmer Woods98/100
- 20Seven Mile Lodge98/100
- 21Tech Town98/100
- 22Minock Park97/100
- 23Rouge Park97/100
- 24Sherwood Forest97/100
- 25Brewster Homes96/100
- 26Cadillac Community96/100
- 27West Outer Drive96/100
- 28West Village96/100
- 29Westwood Park96/100
- 30Castle Rouge95/100
- 31Conant Gardens95/100
- 32Grandmont #195/100
- 33Green Acres95/100
- 34Greenwich95/100
- 35Happy Homes95/100
- 36Hubbard Farms95/100
- 37Lasalle Gardens95/100
- 38Michigan-Martin95/100
- 39Oak Grove District 295/100
- 40South Of Six95/100
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 →