Best PlacesYorkshire Woods, Detroit, MI Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Yorkshire Woods, 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.

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Yorkshire Woods, Detroit ranks 5,963rd of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low disaster risk by a wide margin, and a weak job market ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Yorkshire Woods, Detroit

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Yorkshire Woods, Detroit area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Yorkshire Woods, Detroit's strengths and weaknesses

Top 10%Low disaster risk
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Yorkshire Woods, Detroit with other neighborhoods.

Where Yorkshire Woods, Detroit ranks high

  • Disaster safetyBetter than 94% of neighborhoods
  • Cheap childcare$834 a month, better than 86% of neighborhoods
  • Heat safetyBetter than 80% of neighborhoods
  • Tree shadeBetter than 61% of neighborhoods
  • WalkabilityBetter than 60% of neighborhoods

Where Yorkshire Woods, Detroit ranks low

  • Local economyBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Health outlookBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 2% of neighborhoods
  • Low vacancyBetter than only 4% of neighborhoods
  • QuietBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Yorkshire Woods, Detroit

A household needs to earn about $19,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Yorkshire Woods, Detroit home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $35,032, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$19,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$435
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $63,064 home
Median rent
$1,056
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$322
Property tax$92
Homeowners insurance$21

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 Yorkshire Woods, Detroit's effective rate of 1.76%, 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.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Yorkshire Woods, Detroit

Yorkshire Woods, Detroit runs younger than the country.

Median age
33
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
13%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.7
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1830%
18 to 3426%
35 to 4918%
50 to 6414%
65 and older13%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Yorkshire Woods, Detroit.


Who works in Yorkshire Woods, Detroit, and how

Work in Yorkshire Woods, Detroit centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
11%
below the national average
Unemployment
17.5%
above the national average
Job growth
−7.0%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing24%
Health care & social22%
Transportation & warehousing14%
Education9%
Public administration8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 83%
  • Work from home 11%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 6%

Life in Yorkshire Woods, Detroit

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Yorkshire Woods, Detroit.


What the weather is like in Yorkshire Woods, Detroit, month by month

Yorkshire Woods, Detroit sees roughly 79 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 36, with lows near 21. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
Show the monthly temperatures
MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January36°28°21°
April61°49°38°
July87°76°65°
October66°56°46°

Flying in and out of Yorkshire Woods, Detroit

Detroit Metro Wayne County sits about 25 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 16.3 million passengers in 2025, with 168 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
DTW
Detroit Metro Wayne County, about 25 miles
Airport size
Large hub
18th-busiest in the US, 168 nonstop destinations
Average drive
36 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Yorkshire Woods, Detroit

Schools across Yorkshire Woods, Detroit average a D−, better than 11% of neighborhoods.

Top elementary schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Yorkshire Woods, Detroit school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Yorkshire Woods, 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 Yorkshire Woods, Detroit against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Yorkshire Woods, Detroit

Is Yorkshire Woods, Detroit a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Yorkshire Woods, Detroit ranks 5,963rd of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on low disaster risk, affordable childcare, and heat safety, and lowest on a weak job market and health outcomes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Yorkshire Woods, Detroit expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $63,064. The overall cost of living runs about 16% below the national average. Set against a $35,032 median income, cost of living beats 6% of neighborhoods.

Is Yorkshire Woods, Detroit safe?

Yorkshire Woods, Detroit is safer than 6% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $1,072 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Yorkshire Woods, Detroit. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Yorkshire Woods, 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.

Yorkshire Woods, Detroit detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Yorkshire Woods, Detroit: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Yorkshire Woods, Detroit: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Yorkshire Woods, Detroit: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Yorkshire Woods, Detroit: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Yorkshire Woods, Detroit detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.