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Metzger, Kurt R. "Metropolitan Detroit’s Diverse Population: A Closer Look What the 2000 Census Has to Tell Us Presentation to the Detroit Orientation Institute." Center for Urban Studies, Wayne State University. April 28, 2003. "Metro Detroit’s Foreign-Born Population." Global Detroit. 2014. (Full report)
As of 2002 72% of Michigan's metropolitan black population resides in the Detroit PMSA. That year, Wayne County had 864,627 black people, making up 42% of its total residents and 85% of the total number of black people in the PMSA. In 2002 Oakland County had the second
In the decade 1990–2000, the highest number of blacks moved into the Detroit suburbs of any decade in the 20th century. In that decade, the black population of Southfield increased by more than 20,000 people. [6] At the same time, the total number of black people in Detroit decreased for the first time in the city's history.
The following is a list of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States with large African American populations. As a result of slavery, more than half of African Americans live in the South. [1] The data is sourced from the 2010 and 2020 United States Censuses.
This list of U.S. cities by black population covers all incorporated cities and Census-designated places with a population over 100,000 and a proportion of black residents over 30% in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and the population in each city that is black or African American.
As of Thursday, the bureau still listed the 2022 population at 620,376 — just a third of the population in 1950, when Detroit was the nation's fifth-largest city.
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.
Contact Frank Witsil: 313-222-5022 or fwitsil@freepress.com. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Detroit Metro Airport gets mobile app for international travelers Show comments