Restaurant Health Inspection Coverage in Michigan

The Safe Plate publishes restaurant health inspection records for Michigan exactly as the government health department that issued them publishes them. We do not inspect restaurants, and we do not verify, score or endorse the records an agency publishes.

Health departments these records come from

Descriptions of each agency's grading system are written by The Safe Plate to explain the records, and are not statements made by the agency.

• Detroit, MI — Issuing agency: Detroit Health Department, Environmental Health Services — What these records include: No letter grade or numeric score. Inspections follow the Michigan Food Law and FDA Food Code. Violations are classified as Priority (direct cause of foodborne illness), Priority Foundation (management systems supporting safe food handling), or Core (general sanitation and facility maintenance), each with an FDA food code section number and inspector description.
• Oakland County, MI — Issuing agency: Oakland County Health Division (Sword Solutions platform) — What these records include: No letter grade or numeric score shown. Only Routine inspections from January 2024 onward are included. Violations are classified as Priority, Priority Foundation, or Core, each with an FDA food code section number and inspector description. Covers all of Oakland County.
• Washtenaw County, MI — Issuing agency: Washtenaw County Health Department (Sword Solutions platform) — What these records include: No letter grade or numeric score shown. Only Routine inspections from January 2024 onward are included. Violations are classified as Priority, Priority Foundation, or Core, each with an FDA food code section number and inspector description. Covers Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Saline, Chelsea and the rest of the county); University of Michigan campus food service is inspected by the University itself and is not included.
• Wayne County, MI (outside Detroit) — Issuing agency: Wayne County local health jurisdictions (Sword Solutions platform) — What these records include: No letter grade or numeric score shown. Only Routine inspections from January 2024 onward are included. Violations are classified as Priority (direct cause of foodborne illness), Priority Foundation (management systems supporting safe food handling), or Core (general sanitation), each with an FDA food code section number and inspector description. Covers Wayne County outside the city of Detroit (Dearborn, Livonia, Westland, Canton, Romulus, Taylor, and other Wayne County municipalities), Detroit itself has its own dedicated source.

Counties covered

Each county below links to the inspection records we publish for it.

• Oakland
• Washtenaw
• Wayne

Cities with their own page

Each city below links to the inspection records we publish for it. We cover more cities than these — a city where only a handful of records have been published is still searchable, it just does not have a page of its own yet.

• Ann Arbor
• Dearborn
• Detroit
• Franklin
• Livonia
• Southgate

Counties not covered

These counties either have no public inspection portal we can use, or one we cannot read programmatically. We show nothing for them rather than guessing.

Genesee, Kent

Checking these records yourself

Every record we show is published by the agency named beside it. Our Data Sources page lists each agency and links to the official portal it publishes on, so you can check any record against the source.

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We republish what the health department published and cannot change an agency's record. If something we show does not match the official source, tell us and we will look into it.

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Restaurant Health Inspection Coverage by State