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Michigan 2020 population distribution. Michigan is the third-most populous state in the Midwestern United States, with a population of 10,077,331 according to the 2020 United States census. The vast majority of the state's population lives in the Lower Peninsula, with only 301,609 residing in the Upper Peninsula.
In total, 8.89% (830,281) of Michigan's population age five and older spoke a mother language other than English. [84] Since 2021, 90.1% of residents aged five and older spoke only English at home, and Spanish was the second-most spoken language with 2.9% of the population speaking it. [85]
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With a population of 10.14 million and an area of 96,716 sq mi (250,490 km 2), Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by total area east of the Mississippi River. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit.
The Upper Peninsula remains a predominantly rural region. As of the 2020 census the region had a population of 301,608, just more than 3% of Michigan's total population and a decline of 3.2% from 2010. [2] According to the 2010 census, 103,211 people live in the 12 towns of at least 4,000 people, covering 96.5 square miles (250 km 2).
It had a population of 198,893 at the 2020 census, [5] making it the second-most populous city in Michigan, after Detroit. Grand Rapids is the central city of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area , which has a population of 1.16 million and a combined statistical area population of 1.5 million.
The largest municipality by population in Michigan is Detroit with 639,111 residents; [1] the smallest municipality by population is Pointe Aux Barques Township with 15 residents. [3] The largest municipality by land area is McMillan Township which spans 588.78 sq mi (1,524.9 km 2 ), while Ahmeek is the smallest at 0.07 sq mi (0.18 km 2 ).
The University of Michigan was established in Ann Arbor in 1837, [10] and the city's population grew at a rapid rate in the early to mid-20th century. A college town, Ann Arbor is currently home to the University of Michigan, which significantly shapes the city's economy, employing about 30,000 workers which includes about 12,000 in its medical ...