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title="Detroit">Detroit</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Detroit_City_population_pyramid_in_2021.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Detroit_City_population_pyramid_in_2021.svg/350px-Detroit_City_population_pyramid_in_2021.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Detroit_City_population_pyramid_in_2021.svg/525px-Detroit_City_population_pyramid_in_2021.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Detroit_City_population_pyramid_in_2021.svg/700px-Detroit_City_population_pyramid_in_2021.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2693" data-file-height="2057" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Population pyramid of Detroit in 2021</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">639,111 (2020)</td></tr></tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Racial_Divide_Detroit_MI.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Racial_Divide_Detroit_MI.png/300px-Racial_Divide_Detroit_MI.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Racial_Divide_Detroit_MI.png/450px-Racial_Divide_Detroit_MI.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Racial_Divide_Detroit_MI.png/600px-Racial_Divide_Detroit_MI.png 2x" data-file-width="3009" data-file-height="3009" /></a><figcaption>Race and ethnicity in Detroit as of the 2000 census. Each dot is 25 people. The map shows the heavy legacy of historic <a href="/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States" title="Racial segregation in the United States">segregation</a> in American cities.<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#EC004E; color:black;"> </span> White</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#00AAE6; color:black;"> </span> African-American</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#B2FB34; color:black;"> </span> Asian</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FFAE00; color:black;"> </span> Hispanic (of any race)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#80827F; color:black;"> </span> Other</div></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a>'s population began to expand rapidly based on <a href="/wiki/Natural_resource" title="Natural resource">resource</a> extraction from around the <a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes_region" title="Great Lakes region">Great Lakes region</a>, especially <a href="/wiki/Lumber" title="Lumber">lumber</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mineral" title="Mineral">mineral</a> resources. It entered the period of largest and most rapid growth in the early <a href="/wiki/20th_century" title="20th century">20th century</a> and through <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, with the development of the <a href="/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_the_United_States" title="Automotive industry in the United States">automotive industry</a> and related <a href="/wiki/Heavy_industry" title="Heavy industry">heavy industry</a>. Attracting hundreds of thousands of <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Immigration to the United States">immigrants</a> from <a href="/wiki/Southern_Europe" title="Southern Europe">southern</a>, <a href="/wiki/Central_Europe" title="Central Europe">central</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">eastern Europe</a> and from the <a href="/wiki/Near_East" title="Near East">Near East</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Black_Southerners" title="Black Southerners">black</a> and <a href="/wiki/White_Southerners" title="White Southerners">white</a> migrants from the <a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">Southern United States</a>, the city became a <a href="/wiki/Boomtown" title="Boomtown">boomtown</a>. </p><p>Detroit's population increased more than a thousand-fold between 1820 and 1930. Most of the increase occurred during the early decades of the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated3_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This massive population increase was driven by the expansion of the <a href="/wiki/Auto_industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Auto industry">auto industry</a> during the early twentieth century. By 1920, Detroit had become the fourth-largest city in the country, and it held this position for decades.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Postwar suburbanization and industrial restructuring caused massive job loss and population changes in the city. </p> <div class="thumb tright" style=""><div class="thumbinner" style="width:-moz-fit-content; width:fit-content;"><div class="thumbimage noresize" style="width:auto;"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Notice plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width:100%;margin:0;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/60px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/80px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="text-align: left;"><div class="mbox-text-span">Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940" class="extiw" title="phab:T334940">Phabricator</a> and on <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Plans" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:Graph/Plans">MediaWiki.org</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="thumbcaption">Historical census population of Detroit, Michigan<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated3_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-QF_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QF-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2020-census_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020-census-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:DarkViolet; color:white;"> </span> Total</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Tomato; color:black;"> </span> White</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:SteelBlue; color:black;"> </span> African-American</div></div></div></div> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographic_history_of_Detroit&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_years">Early years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographic_history_of_Detroit&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Detroit was founded by Europeans in 1701 when the colonial French established a fort here as a center for trading. The European population numbered 100 French soldiers, farmers and merchants. The first women arrived in September. The fort attracted Native Americans of the region, and bands of various tribes settled nearby, including the Huron. They soon far outnumbered the French. </p><p>Detroit developed as the most important French city between Montreal and New Orleans, two major areas of colonial settlement. Its European population was 800 people in 1765, shortly after France ceded its territory east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain after being defeated in the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a>. By that time, most or all of the Native Americans had moved from the area.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1773, the population of Detroit was 1,400. By 1778, its population was 2,144 and it was the third largest city in the British <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Quebec_(1763-1791)" class="mw-redirect" title="Province of Quebec (1763-1791)">Province of Quebec</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At this time, the British considered it part of Quebec rather than the Thirteen Colonies. </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> and settlement of the northern boundary between Canada and the United States, Detroit and Michigan became part of US territory. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographic_history_of_Detroit&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the early 20th century from 1910 to 1930, Detroit was among the many cities in the North that attracted immigrants from southern, central, and eastern Europe as well as African American migrants during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)" title="Great Migration (African American)">Great Migration</a>. The promise of lucrative employment opportunities in the burgeoning auto industry in addition to readily available property brought many people to Detroit. They sought a place where they could settle down and live the <a href="/wiki/American_Dream" title="American Dream">American Dream</a>. More than one-fifth of the population of the city was consistently composed of immigrants during the first half of the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From at least 1880 to the 1980s, the greatest number of immigrants and their descendants living in <a href="/wiki/Wayne_County,_Michigan" title="Wayne County, Michigan">Wayne County, Michigan</a> (where Detroit is located) were from central and eastern Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Detroit's population increased from under 500,000 in 1910 to over 1.8 million at the city's peak in 1950, making Detroit the fourth-most populous city in the United States at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The population grew largely because of an influx of European immigrants, in addition to the migration of both black and white Americans to Detroit.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the Great Migration, beginning around 1920, black people left the South in search of better jobs as well as to escape <a href="/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws" title="Jim Crow laws">Jim Crow</a> laws. During the first wave of the Great Migration, thousands of African Americans settled in Detroit, as part of the total of 1.5 million black people who left the South in the first half of the 20th century looking for opportunities in the Northeast and Midwest.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1910, about 6,000 black people lived in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1930, more than 120,000 black people lived in Detroit.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite the large influx of black residents, in 1940, whites still made up 90.4% of the city's population, indicating a similarly large influx of white residents due to the burgeoning job market.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the Great Migration, it was not only black Americans seeking better opportunities throughout the United States. In the 1930s and early 40s, many Native Americans, such as the Creek (<a href="/wiki/Muscogee" title="Muscogee">Muscogee</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> from <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a> settled in Detroit. The federal government encouraged such urban relocation so that Native Americans would have access to jobs and other opportunities. The Hispanic population of Detroit also rapidly increased after 1940, especially in the late 20th century as immigration laws changed. By 2010, the Hispanic population of Detroit was ten times higher than that of 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1940s, the booming defense industries attracted large numbers of workers, who enjoyed the readily available jobs and often higher wages.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The expansion of industry for war production during World War II resulted in Detroit's population growing by 350,000 people from 1940 to 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The defense industries attracted 50,000 black people from the South in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Great_Migration_(African_American)" title="Second Great Migration (African American)">Second Great Migration</a>, along with 300,000 whites mostly from the South.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many industries in Detroit were willing to hire black people for work, particularly during the war when there was a shortage of workers. By 1940, nearly 12% of automotive giant Ford's workers were black.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While there may have been many jobs available to new immigrants to the city, the rapidly growing population created a significant housing crisis in Detroit. Most black residents who moved to Detroit settled in the neighborhoods of Black Bottom or Paradise Valley, on the East side of Detroit. These choices in housing were largely dictated by <a href="/wiki/Restrictive_covenants" class="mw-redirect" title="Restrictive covenants">restrictive covenants</a> that prevented black people from purchasing homes in white neighborhoods. In addition to restrictive covenants, neighborhoods of Detroit experienced <a href="/wiki/Redlining" title="Redlining">redlining</a>, which prevented anyone who lived in a redlined district from getting a loan or mortgage for their house from the FHA (the HOLC would lend to residents of redlined districts).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Real estate agents also often refused to show houses in white neighborhoods to black people, and white residents formed homeowners associations to prevent black residents moving in. In addition, the city council used the construction of highways in Detroit as a tool for slum removal. Much of Paradise Valley and Black Bottom was bulldozed to make room for <a href="/wiki/Interstate_375_(Michigan)" title="Interstate 375 (Michigan)">I-375</a>. This further constricted the already tight housing market for black migrants, exacerbating the housing crisis. Despite the lack of housing, black people continued to move to Detroit, and by 1960, almost 30% of the population of Detroit was black.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The white population of the city peaked in 1950 and then steadily declined due to <a href="/wiki/White_flight" title="White flight">white flight</a> and net emigration through 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The white population fell 95% between the 1950 and 2010 censuses, as whites who often still worked in the city moved to the surrounding suburbs. Many of these white residents were moving out of the city to avoid black Detroiters who were now able to buy houses in white neighborhoods after landmark civil rights cases such as <a href="/wiki/Shelley_v._Kraemer" title="Shelley v. Kraemer">Shelley v. Kraemer</a> began to lower barriers to home ownership.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, the industrial boom of the postwar period had begun to decline by the 1950s and '60s. In 1950, 56% of all automobile-manufacturing employment in the United States was in Michigan, but by 1960, that had fallen to 40%.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of the factories that had employed thousands of Detroiters were forced to lay off workers, leading to Detroiters moving elsewhere for work. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965" title="Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965">Major changes to US immigration law in 1965</a> resulted in a large influx of Middle Eastern residents. The Middle Eastern population in Detroit rose from 70,000 in 1974 to 92,000 in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot" title="1967 Detroit riot">Detroit riot of 1967</a>, a result of years of segregation in Detroit, only exacerbated the phenomenon of white flight. One of the major consequences of white flight was the commercial vacuum that it created. The city lost a great deal of tax revenue, and many neighborhoods lost valuable commercial centers and markets, contributing to a vicious cycle of <a href="/wiki/Disinvestment" title="Disinvestment">disinvestment</a> and population decline.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1980, not only did black people make up over 60% of the population, but the population of Detroit as a whole had decreased by 35% since its height in 1950.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This trend of population decline did not change in the following 30 years, and by 2010, the population of Detroit had decreased by about 60%.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The black population of Detroit peaked at over 3/4 of a million between 1980 and 2000, and then black flight began, and between 2000 and 2020 over 1/3 of all black and white residents left Detroit for the surrounding suburbs. While Detroit had been in the top ten most populous cities in the United States between 1910 and 2000, given its population decline after 2000 Detroit ranked as the 18th-most populous city in the United States in 2010, and the 28th-most populous city in the United States in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an apparent turn-around, the <i><a href="/wiki/Detroit_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Detroit News">Detroit News</a></i> reported in its September 17, 2015, edition that the white population of the city was rising, with a reported increase in white residents from 2013 to 2014 of nearly 8,000. 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. Though this was a small amount relative to Detroit's overall population, it was the first measurable population growth in decades.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Table">Table</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographic_history_of_Detroit&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Table"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Demographic history profile of <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a>, Between 1820 and 2020<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated3_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-immigrants_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-immigrants-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-QF_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QF-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2020-census_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020-census-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Population </th> <th><a href="/wiki/White_American" class="mw-redirect" title="White American">White</a> </th> <th>% White </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_Whites" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Hispanic Whites">Non-Hispanic White</a> </th> <th>% Non-Hispanic White </th> <th><a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">Black</a> </th> <th>% Black </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Asian_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian American">Asian</a> </th> <th>% Asian </th> <th>Other or<br />Mixed </th> <th>% O/M </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic/ Latino</a> </th> <th>% Hispanic/ Latino </th> <th>Foreign<br />Born </th> <th>% FB </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1820 </th> <td>1,422</td> <td>1,355</td> <td>95.29</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>67</td> <td>4.71</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1830 </th> <td>2,222</td> <td>2,096</td> <td>94.33</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>126</td> <td>5.68</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1840 </th> <td>9,102</td> <td>8,909</td> <td>97.88</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>193</td> <td>2.12</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1850 </th> <td>21,019</td> <td>20,432</td> <td>97.21</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>587</td> <td>2.79</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>9,927</td> <td>47.23 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1860 </th> <td>45,619</td> <td>44,216</td> <td>96.92</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>1,403</td> <td>3.08</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1870 </th> <td>79,577</td> <td>77,338</td> <td>97.19</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>2,235</td> <td>2.81</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>4</td> <td>0</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>35,381</td> <td>44.46 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1880 </th> <td>116,340</td> <td>113,475</td> <td>97.54</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>2,821</td> <td>2.42</td> <td>10</td> <td>0</td> <td>34</td> <td>0.04</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>45,645</td> <td>39.23 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1890 </th> <td>205,876</td> <td>202,422</td> <td>98.32</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>3,431</td> <td>1.67</td> <td>12</td> <td>0.01</td> <td>11</td> <td>0</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>81,709</td> <td>39.69 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1900 </th> <td>285,704</td> <td>281,575</td> <td>98.55</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>4,111</td> <td>1.44</td> <td>4</td> <td>0</td> <td>14</td> <td>0.01</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>96,503</td> <td>33.78 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1910 </th> <td>465,766</td> <td>459,926</td> <td>98.75</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>5,741</td> <td>1.23</td> <td>58</td> <td>0.01</td> <td>41</td> <td>0.01</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>157,534</td> <td>33.82 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1920 </th> <td>993,678</td> <td>952,065</td> <td>95.81</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>40,838</td> <td>4.11</td> <td>620</td> <td>0.06</td> <td>155</td> <td>0.02</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>290,884</td> <td>29.27 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1930 </th> <td>1,568,662</td> <td>1,446,656</td> <td>92.22</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>120,066</td> <td>7.65</td> <td>1,590</td> <td>0.10</td> <td>350</td> <td>0.03</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>405,882</td> <td>25.87 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1940 </th> <td>1,623,452</td> <td>1,472,662</td> <td>90.71</td> <td>1,467,506</td> <td>90.39</td> <td>149,119</td> <td>9.19</td> <td>1,237</td> <td>0.08</td> <td>434</td> <td>0.02</td> <td>5,156</td> <td>0.32</td> <td>322,688</td> <td>19.88 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1950 </th> <td>1,849,568</td> <td>1,545,847</td> <td>83.58</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>300,506</td> <td>16.25</td> <td>1,734</td> <td>0.09</td> <td>1,481</td> <td>0.08</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>278,260</td> <td>15.04 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1960 </th> <td>1,670,144</td> <td>1,182,970</td> <td>70.83</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>482,223</td> <td>28.87</td> <td>2,780</td> <td>0.17</td> <td>2,171</td> <td>0.13</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>201,713</td> <td>12.08 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1970 </th> <td>1,511,482</td> <td>838,877</td> <td>55.50</td> <td>815,823</td> <td>53.98</td> <td>660,428</td> <td>43.69</td> <td>4,478</td> <td>0.30</td> <td>7,699</td> <td>0.51</td> <td>27,038</td> <td>1.79</td> <td>119,347</td> <td>7.90 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1980 </th> <td>1,203,339</td> <td>413,730</td> <td>34.38</td> <td>402,077</td> <td>33.41</td> <td>758,939</td> <td>63.07</td> <td>6,621</td> <td>0.55</td> <td>24,049</td> <td>2.00</td> <td>28,970</td> <td>2.41</td> <td>68,303</td> <td>5.68 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">1990 </th> <td>1,027,974</td> <td>222,316</td> <td>21.63</td> <td>212,278</td> <td>20.65</td> <td>777,916</td> <td>75.67</td> <td>8,461</td> <td>0.82</td> <td>19,281</td> <td>1.88</td> <td>28,473</td> <td>2.77</td> <td>34,490</td> <td>3.36 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">2000 </th> <td>951,270</td> <td>116,599</td> <td>12.26</td> <td>99,921</td> <td>10.50</td> <td>775,772</td> <td>81.55</td> <td>9,519</td> <td>1.00</td> <td>49,380</td> <td>5.19</td> <td>47,167</td> <td>4.96</td> <td>45,541</td> <td>4.79 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">2010 </th> <td>713,777</td> <td>75,758</td> <td>10.61</td> <td>55,604</td> <td>7.79</td> <td>590,226</td> <td>82.69</td> <td>7,559</td> <td>1.06</td> <td>40,234</td> <td>5.64</td> <td>48,679</td> <td>6.82</td> <td>36,000</td> <td>5.1 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right;"> <th style="text-align:left;">2020 </th> <td>639,111</td> <td>68,407</td> <td>10.70</td> <td>60,770</td> <td>9.50</td> <td>496,534</td> <td>77.69</td> <td>10,193</td> <td>1.59</td> <td>60,886</td> <td>9.52</td> <td>51,269</td> <td>8.02</td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="float: left; margin-right: 2em; width: 50%; font-size: 95%"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4">Detroit demographics </th></tr> <tr> <th>Self-identified race (2020)<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Detroit City </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Wayne_County,_Michigan" title="Wayne County, Michigan">Wayne County, MI</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td>Total population </td> <td>639,111 </td> <td>1,793,561 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Population, percent change, 2010 to 2020 </td> <td>-10.5% </td> <td>-1.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Population density </td> <td>4,606.87/sq mi (1,778.72/km<sup>2</sup>) </td> <td>2,665/sq mi (1,029/km<sup>2</sup>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White alone</a>, percent </td> <td>10.7% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>49.2% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>(<a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_Whites" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Hispanic Whites">White alone, not Hispanic or Latino</a>, percent) </td> <td>9.5% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>47.8% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Black_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black (U.S. Census)">Black or African-American alone</a>, percent </td> <td>77.7% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>37.6% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic or Latino (of any race)</a> </td> <td>7.7% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>6.6% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">American Indian and Alaska Native alone</a>, percent </td> <td>0.5% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>0.4% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian alone</a>, percent </td> <td>0.0% </td> <td>0.0% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian alone</a>, percent </td> <td>1.6% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>3.6% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Multiracial_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Multiracial American">Two or more races</a>, percent </td> <td>4.9% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>6.2% <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Other_races_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Other races (U.S. Census)">Some Other Race</a>, percent </td> <td>4.6%<span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td>3.0%<span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Central_city">Central city</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographic_history_of_Detroit&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Central city"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"7.2 Sq Mi"; a 2013 report created by a coalition of Data Driven Detroit, Downtown Detroit Partnership, Midtown Detroit Inc., and the Detroit Economic Growth Corp.; outlined the demographics of the following communities: <a href="/wiki/Downtown_Detroit" title="Downtown Detroit">Downtown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corktown,_Detroit" title="Corktown, Detroit">Corktown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Market,_Detroit" title="Eastern Market, Detroit">Eastern Market</a>, the eastern riverfront, <a href="/wiki/Lafayette_Park,_Detroit" title="Lafayette Park, Detroit">Lafayette Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Midtown_Detroit" title="Midtown Detroit">Midtown</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="New Center">New Center</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Woodbridge,_Detroit" title="Woodbridge, Detroit">Woodbridge</a>, a total of 7.2 square miles (19 km<sup>2</sup>), according to the <a href="/wiki/2010_U.S._Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 U.S. Census">2010 U.S. Census</a> data. This central area is not as wealthy as comparable central areas in <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>, and other similar cities, yet its residents have more ethnic diversity and are wealthier than other areas of Detroit.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eric Lacy of <i><a href="/wiki/MLive" class="mw-redirect" title="MLive">MLive</a></i> wrote "Consider that data either proof downtown Detroit is on an upswing, other neighborhoods are deteriorating fast or a mixture of both."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Retrieved on June 14, 2015.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographic_history_of_Detroit&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"7.2 SQ MI: Report on Greater Downtown Detroit Second Edition." <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://detroitsevenpointtwo.com/resources/7.2SQ_MI_Book_FINAL_LoRes.pdf">Full report</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150614205603/http://detroitsevenpointtwo.com/resources/7.2SQ_MI_Book_FINAL_LoRes.pdf">Archive</a>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://detroitsevenpointtwo.com/resources/7.2_FastFacts.pdf">Fast Facts</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150614212011/http://detroitsevenpointtwo.com/resources/7.2_FastFacts.pdf">Archive</a>)</li></ul></li> <li>"7.2 SQ MI: Report on Greater Downtown Detroit" (original 2013 document) <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://detroitsevenpointtwo.com/resources/2013-Full-Report.pdf">Full report</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150614211154/http://detroitsevenpointtwo.com/resources/2013-Full-Report.pdf">Archive</a>)</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://detroitsevenpointtwo.com/resources/2013-Fast-Facts.pdf">7.2 SQ MI FAST FACTS</a>" (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150614212443/http://detroitsevenpointtwo.com/resources/2013-Fast-Facts.pdf">Archive</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demographic_history_of_Detroit&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811042531/http://detroitsevenpointtwo.com/">7.2 SQ MI</a> - A series of reports on Greater Downtown Detroit</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150615054213/http://datadrivendetroit.org/projects/7-2-sq-mi-a-report-on-greater-downtown-detroit/">7.2 SQ MI: A Report on Greater Downtown Detroit</a>." 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