Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan

Property Tax Rate

64.18 mills for an owner-occupied home (principal residence)

The Michigan Treasury's published 2025 rates, per $1,000 of taxable value. A home that is not a principal residence pays 82.18 mills, because it does not get the school-operating exemption.

After a sale. Michigan caps how fast a home's taxable value can rise while the same owner holds it, and resets it to the State Equalized Value (about half of market value) when the home sells. On a $300,000 purchase that is a taxable value near $150,000, so at the median rate the bill is about $9,627 a year if the buyer lives there and about $12,327 if not. The seller's bill is often much lower, so the current bill is not a guide to the next one. A full report projects the bill for a specific address.

School District Outcomes

District at the center of the city: Detroit Public Schools Community District. Check the district of a specific address.

Michigan Department of Education data via MI School Data (2026), student-outcome measures only. Tiers rank each outcome against all Michigan districts, so a higher tier is always the better result (for the dropout rate, a lower rate ranks higher). Some small-district figures are suppressed by the state and are left out here.

Reported Crime

83,996 incidents reported city-wide in the last 12 months

Source: the City of Detroit's open police incident data. This counts incident reports, not distinct events, and each department records them differently, so figures should not be compared between cities. It is a city-wide total; the count within half a mile of a specific address is in a full report.

Wayne County Market Momentum

Source: FRED (Realtor.com series), as of 2026-09-01. County-level — the finest granularity FRED publishes.