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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.16 square miles (13.36 km 2), all of it land. [12]Oak Park is adjacent to the cities of Detroit to the south, Southfield to the west, Pleasant Ridge, Ferndale, and Royal Oak Township to the east, Huntington Woods to the northeast, and Berkley to the north.
Website. www.oakgov.com. Oakland County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a principal county of the Detroit metropolitan area, containing the bulk of Detroit's northern suburbs. Its seat of government is Pontiac, [a] and its largest city is Troy. [4]
Of the more than 240,000 suburban blacks in Metro Detroit, 44% lived in Inkster, Oak Park, Pontiac, and Southfield. [3] Highland Park and Hamtramck , two cities surrounded by Detroit, have a similar split with Highland Park being 93% African American but Hamtramck only 15%.
The Detroit region is a ten-county Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with a population of 5,325,219—making it the 12th-largest CSA in the United States as enumerated by the 2020 Census. [ 53 ] The Detroit–Windsor area, a commercial link straddling the Canada-U.S. border , has a total population of about 5,700,000.
In 2010 the four Metro Detroit counties had at least 200,000 people of Middle Eastern origin. Bobby Ghosh of TIME said that some estimates gave much larger numbers. [4] From 1990 to 2000 the percentage of people speaking Arabic in the home increased by 106% in Wayne County, 99.5% in Macomb County, and 41% in Oakland County.
In the 1940s the 12th Street/Linwood/Dexter area housed the Jewish community in Detroit. The community at one point moved to the Livernois-Seven Mile area. It later relocated to the Oakland County municipalities of Oak Park, Southfield, and West Bloomfield. [1] The post-World War II Jewish community began to suburbanize.
A 2013 report by the Global Detroit and Data Driven Detroit stated that of the immigrant ethnic groups to Metro Detroit, the largest segment is the Indian population. [57] As of 2012, the Indian populations of Farmington Hills and Troy are among the twenty largest Indian communities in the United States.
Corktown. Roughly bounded by Lodge Freeway, Porter, Trumbull, Bagley, Rosa Parks Boulevard, and Michigan Ave. 42°19′46″N 83°4′27″W / 42.32944°N 83.07417°W / 42.32944; -83.07417 (Corktown Historic District) Corktown is the oldest surviving neighborhood in Detroit, dating to the 1850s.