Best PlacesThe Eye, Detroit, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around The Eye, Detroit, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
The Eye, Detroit ranks 5,789th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. Car insurance costs pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on heat safety.
The best neighborhoods in The Eye, Detroit
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
The Eye, Detroit's strengths and weaknesses
Where The Eye, Detroit ranks high
- Heat safetyBetter than 89% of neighborhoods
- Tree shadeBetter than 88% of neighborhoods
- Cheap childcare$834 a month, better than 86% of neighborhoods
- Disaster safetyBetter than 84% of neighborhoods
- Voter turnoutBetter than 72% of neighborhoods
Where The Eye, Detroit ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 2% of neighborhoods
- Low property taxBetter than only 3% of neighborhoods
- Local economyBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods
- Crime safetyBetter than only 6% of neighborhoods
- School gradeD−, better than only 8% of neighborhoods
What it costs to buy a home in The Eye, Detroit
A household needs to earn about $25,000 a year to comfortably buy the median The Eye, Detroit home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $49,543, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses The Eye, Detroit's effective rate of 2.04%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 2 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in The Eye, Detroit
The Eye, Detroit runs younger than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for The Eye, Detroit.
Who works in The Eye, Detroit, and how
Work in The Eye, Detroit centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 88%
- Work from home 6%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in The Eye, Detroit
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across The Eye, Detroit.
What the weather is like in The Eye, Detroit, month by month
The Eye, Detroit sees roughly 63 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 34, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34° | 28° | 23° |
| April | 59° | 48° | 40° |
| July | 85° | 75° | 66° |
| October | 65° | 55° | 47° |
Flying in and out of The Eye, Detroit
Detroit Metro Wayne County sits about 15 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 16.3 million passengers in 2025, with 168 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around The Eye, Detroit
Schools across The Eye, Detroit average a D−, better than 8% of neighborhoods.
Top elementary schools
- Charles Wright Academy Of Arts And ScienceF · 10% proficient
- Beech ElementaryF · 8% proficient
Top middle schools
- Hilbert Middle SchoolD− · 14% proficient
Top high schools
- Communication And Media Arts High SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
- Redford Union High SchoolD− · 17% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every The Eye, Detroit school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
The Eye, Detroit measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare The Eye, Detroit against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.
Common questions about living in The Eye, Detroit
Is The Eye, Detroit a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, The Eye, Detroit ranks 5,789th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on heat safety, tree cover, and affordable childcare, and lowest on car insurance costs and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is The Eye, Detroit expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $82,726. The overall cost of living runs about 15% below the national average. Set against a $49,543 median income, cost of living beats 21% of neighborhoods.
Is The Eye, Detroit safe?
The Eye, Detroit is safer than 6% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $1,074 per resident a year.
Compare The Eye, Detroit with other neighborhoods
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to The Eye, Detroit. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in The Eye, Detroit represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
The Eye, Detroit detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for The Eye, Detroit: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in The Eye, Detroit: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of The Eye, Detroit: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in The Eye, Detroit: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
The Eye, Detroit detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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