Master Plan Neighborhood areas in Detroit are statistical divisions created by the City of

Detroit Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at th ...

Planning & Development Department and used for

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purposes by the city and statistical agencies, charities, non-profits, and other local organizations.2009 City Master Plan
City of Detroit Planning & Development Department, accessed 7 October 2011 The city is divided into 55 neighborhood areas which are further grouped into 10 neighborhood clusters. The neighborhood areas are composed of and based on

census tracts A census tract, census area, census district or meshblock is a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census. Sometimes these coincide with the limits of cities, towns or other administrative areas and several tracts commonly exist ...

. The master plan neighborhood areas were created with the adoption of the city's current master plan in July 2009, which was a revision of the 1992 master plan.City of Detroit Master Plan of Policies Revision Executive Summary
, accessed 7 October 2011 While they are formally and officially referred to, and described as "master plan neighborhoods", the statistical divisions would more accurately be described as neighborhood groups, since they generally include multiple

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city neighborhoods. The "neighborhood clusters" would more accurately be described as regions, as they were drawn to roughly cover 100,000 residents apiece.

Master Plan Neighborhood areas

Cluster 1

Cluster 2

Cluster 3

Cluster 4

Cluster 5

Cluster 6

Cluster 7

Cluster 8

Cluster 9

Cluster 10

References

External links

City of Detroit 2009 Master Plan webpage
{{Detroit *Master Plan .02 Detroit, Master Plan