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This was the first measurable increase in Detroit's white population since 1950, when the city was 84% white. Indeed, the 2020 U.S. census showed that the non-Hispanic white population of Detroit increased by 5,000 people between 2010 and 2020.
While the drop in Detroit's population has been ongoing since 1950, the most dramatic period was the significant 25% decline between the 2000 and 2010 census. [163] Detroit's 639,111 residents represent 269,445 households, and 162,924 families residing in the city. The population density was 5,144.3 people per square mile (1,986.2 people/km 2).
According to the United States Census Bureau, as of July 2018, approximately 79.1% of those residing in the City of Detroit proper are African American. [2] Most but not all of the suburban cities are still predominantly white. In the 2000s, 115 of the 185 cities and townships in Metro Detroit were over 95% white.
The city sued the Census Bureau in 2022, claiming it missed thousands of residents in its 2021 population estimates. Detroit protested against the Census Bureau's reported population figures in ...
Officials were upset after the 2020 decennial census revealed a population decline of 10.5% in Detroit, numbers that Kurt Metzger, founder of Data Driven Detroit, called "abysmal and problematic ...
The lawsuit followed the city’s appeal of the 2020 census data that showed Detroit with 639,111 residents, while estimates from 2019 put the city’s population at 670,052 residents. Detroit was among several large cities to file a challenge of their 2020 census figures, following a national head count in which the Census Bureau acknowledged ...
Detroit — a majority Black metropolitan city of more than half a million residents — became the largest U.S. city to challenge the national headcount of the 2020 census, with local officials ...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.