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Highland Park is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An enclave of Detroit , Highland Park is located roughly 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Downtown Detroit , and is surrounded by Detroit on most sides.
Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) is a school district that serves Detroit, Michigan, and high school students in Highland Park, Michigan.The district, which replaced the original Detroit Public Schools (DPS) in 2016, provides services to approximately 50,000 students, [6] making it the largest school district in the state.
In 2002 Detroit had 771,966 black residents, making up 81.2% of its population and making it the city with the largest African-American population in Michigan. [40] That year it was also, out of all of the U.S. cities with 100,000 or more people, the city with the second highest percentage of black people. [2]
The population was 19,172 at the time of the 2020 census. [3] Highland Township is a western suburb of Metro Detroit and is located about 18 miles (29.0 km) west of the city of Pontiac and about 45 miles (72.4 km) northwest of the city of Detroit. Highland Township was founded by pioneer families in 1835.
Highland Park and Hamtramck, two cities surrounded by Detroit, have a similar split with Highland Park being 93% African American but Hamtramck only 15%. In Wayne County , the city of Dearborn has a large concentration of Arab Americans , mainly Lebanese .
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In 2002 the Michigan city with the highest percentage of Black residents was Highland Park, where 93% of the population is Black. [6] In the 2010 census, African Americans made up 22.8% of the total city and metropolitan area population in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. [needs update]
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