Southwest Side
The Southwest Side of Detroit is 2 miles outside of downtown. It is home to popular ethnically diverse neighborhoods, such as Corktown and Mexicantown.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: human settlement in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Also known as: “Detroit/Southwest Side” and “Southwest Detroit”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Western International High School and Detroit Cristo Rey High School.
Western International High School
School
Photo: Notorious4life, Public domain.
Western International High School is a public high school, located across from Clark Park, within southwest Detroit's Mexicantown. Western is operated by the Detroit Public Schools system.
Detroit Cristo Rey High School
School building
Detroit Cristo Rey High School is a private, coeducational, Roman Catholic high school in Detroit, Michigan, in the West Vernor-Junction Historic District. It opened in August 2008 and operates within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit.
Holy Redeemer High School
School building
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holy Redeemer High School was a Roman Catholic secondary school located in Southwest Detroit, at the corner of Junction and Vernor streets, near the Ambassador Bridge to Canada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Delray and Hubbard Farms.
Delray
Neighborhood
Photo: Notorious4life, Public domain.
Delray is a neighborhood in southwest Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan. Its area extends south to the River Rouge, east to the Detroit River, west to Fort Street, and north to Clark Street.
Hubbard Farms
Neighborhood
Hubbard Farms is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan. It is located on one of the old plots which used to be a ribbon farm along the Detroit River.
Detroit Assembly
Quarter
Detroit Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory in Detroit, Michigan on Clark Street, south of Michigan Avenue. It began operations in 1921 and Cadillac bodies were supplied by Fleetwood Metal Body in 1921 after Fisher Body assumed operations.
Southwest Side
- Categories: neighborhood, unincorporated community in the United States, and locality
- Location: City of Detroit, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.31407° or 42° 18′ 51″ northLongitude
-83.10616° or 83° 6′ 22″ westElevation
597 feet (182 metres)Open location code
86JR8V7V+JGOpenStreetMap ID
node 6907851007OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Italian—“Southwest Side” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Detroit/Southwest Side”
- Irish: “Detroit/Southwest Side”
- Italian: “Lato sudovest di Detroit”
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