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Of the 269,445 households, 34.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 21.5% were married couples living together, 31.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 39.5% were non-families, 34.0% were made up of individuals, and 3.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
1815 - October 24: territorial governing council enacts the charter for the City of Detroit to be governed by a five-person board of trustees. [1] 1817 Catholepistemiad (University of Michigan) established. [5] Detroit Book Store in business. [7] 1818 Walk-in-the-Water Great Lakes passenger steamboat begins operating. [5] Detroit Mechanics ...
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The Detroit News reported that more than half of Detroit property owners did not pay taxes in 2012, at a loss to the city of $131 million (equal to 12% of the city's general fund budget). The first comprehensive analysis of the city's tens of thousands of abandoned and dilapidated buildings took place in the spring of 2014.
In October 2019 a local activist submitted petitions to make District 4 Detroit's second CAC. [6] [7] Members were elected to it in the 2020 general election. [8] In 2022 District 5 residents elected their first Community Advisory Council as well. [9] [10] Municipal elections for Mayor, City Council, City Clerk and Community Advisory Council ...
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. [9] The population grew largely because of an influx of European immigrants, in addition to the migration of both black and white Americans to Detroit. [10]
Detroit City FC is an American soccer club that competes in the USL Championship, the second division of American soccer.Established in 2012 as an amateur club, the first eight years were spent in the semi-professional National Premier Soccer League, followed by a move to professional soccer with a two-year stint in the third tier National Independent Soccer Association.
Although it is unclear when Chinese immigrants first arrived in Detroit, as newspapers in the 1800s did not differentiate between the different cultures of East Asia, it is known that in 1874, 14 Chinese washermen lived in the city. [6] In 1905, Detroit's first two Cantonese chop suey restaurants opened near the Detroit River. [7]