Neighborhood-Level Map Sheds Light on Resident Experiences, Backed by Data on Jobs, Schools, Housing, and Healthcare Across Detroit

A new interactive data tool, the Detroit Voices Data Dashboard from the Detroit Regional Chamber and Gallup, allows users to explore how residents’ experiences with jobs, schools, healthcare, and housing vary across Detroit neighborhoods, the city and the broader region. The tool offers local leaders new visibility into where conditions differ most and where resources may be needed.

The interactive tool builds on the Detroit Resident Voices Survey and enables users to compare multiple indicators across neighborhoods, municipalities and counties, providing a clearer picture of how access to opportunity and essential services varies within and across communities.

While results across the tri-county region often align with national averages, outcomes within the city of Detroit, and especially across neighborhoods, differ substantially.

For example, 30% of Detroit city residents are satisfied with local schools, compared with 68% nationally and 65% across the tri-county region. Satisfaction with healthcare availability is also lower in the city (51%) than in the U.S. and region (77% and 73%, respectively). While views on the availability of good jobs are similar between the region (66%) and the nation (65%), just 38% of city residents report being satisfied with their local job market. Housing follows a similar pattern, with 29% of city residents satisfied with the availability of affordable housing compared with about half nationally and regionally.

Differences are even more pronounced at the neighborhood level. Satisfaction with local schools ranges from 12% in Palmer Park to 44% in Winterhalter. Satisfaction with job availability ranges from 24% in Nolan and Mackenzie to 58% in East Riverside and Indian Village. Satisfaction with quality healthcare access spans from 39% in Pershing to 61% in Jeffries and Indian Village.

These gaps highlight how access to core services and opportunities varies widely within the city, even between bordering communities.

For example, neighborhoods with lower levels of community attachment tend to report higher desire to relocate. In Burbank, 58% of residents disagree that their area is the perfect place for them, and 81% say they would like to move. In contrast, in the Central Business District, 53% of residents agree their area is a good fit, and the share of those who want to move drops significantly to just 41%.

This pattern is less pronounced at the municipal level, suggesting that neighborhood-level conditions play a distinct role in shaping residents’ perceptions and intentions.

This example represents one of many possible comparisons, as the tool includes dozens of data points that can be examined across geographies and measures.

By making neighborhood-level comparisons accessible, the tool provides a resource for policymakers, philanthropic organizations and community leaders working to improve conditions across Detroit.

Users can identify where gaps in access to essentials such as jobs, schools or healthcare are greatest, compare patterns across communities, and better target investments or interventions to areas with the greatest need. The ability to examine multiple indicators together also helps stakeholders understand how different factors interact within specific neighborhoods.

The release coincides with the Chamber’s annual Mackinac Policy Conference, where more than 1,500 national, statewide and regional leaders will lead a discussion focused on finding common ground and urge leaders to rise above divisiveness and champion pragmatic solutions that respond to Michiganders’ clear demand for meaningful action and tangible results.

The Detroit Voices Data Dashboard is made possible through support from Ballmer Group, the Gilbert Family Foundation, The Kresge Foundation and The Skillman Foundation.