| Population | Population, Census, April 1, 2010 713,777 | Age and Sex | Persons under 5 years, percent 7.2% | Persons under 18 years, percent 25.0% |
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The 2010 Census reported 308.7 million people in the United States, a 9.7 percent increase from the Census 2000 population of 281.4 million.
| Year Population White | 1990 1,027,974 222,316 | 2000 951,270 116,599 | 2010 713,777 75,758 | 2020 639,111 68,407 |
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The city of Detroit, in the U.S. state of Michigan, has gone through a major economic and demographic decline in recent decades. The population of the city has fallen from a high of 1,850,000 in 1950 to 680,000 in 2015, removing it from the top 20 of US cities by population for the first time since 1850.
The city’s population became the fourth-largest in the nation in 1920 , after only New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia, with the expansion of the auto industry in the early 20th century.
In 2019, California had the highest Hispanic population in the United States, with over 15.57 million people claiming Hispanic heritage. Texas, Florida, New York, and Arizona rounded out the top five states.
The Washington Post reported census costs have doubled over the last two decades: the 2010 Census cost $96 per American household , up from $70 in 2000 and $39 in 1990. The 2020 Census is now expected to cost $15.6 billion – three times more than the 2000 Census.
| Rank City Total African Americans | 1 Detroit, MI 670,226 | 2 Gary, IN 75,282 | 4 Chester, PA 26,429 | 5 Miami Gardens, FL 81,776 |
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| Population | Female persons, percent 52.6% 50.8% | Race and Hispanic Origin | White alone, percent 14.7% 76.3% | Black or African American alone, percent(a) 78.3% 13.4% |
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The fastest shrinking city in the last decade was Pine Bluff, Ark. , southeast of Little Rock, where the population dropped by 12.5 percent between 2010 and 2020. The population is now 41,250, down from 49,000, according to The New York Times.
Detroit, in the 1950s, was THE richest city in the US , and some say it was the richest city in the world.
Originally Answered: Why does Detroit have bad fame? Detroit (which is about 2 hours and 45 minutes from my front door) has a bad reputation because: It never recovered from the race riots which occurred in the city in the 1960s. The racial unrest caused by poverty and police repression caused .
Since the 1960s however, the city has faced a prolonged period of decline which culminated in Detroit becoming the largest US city to ever file for bankruptcy in 2013. Abandoned buildings are now an ever-present feature of the cityscape, with some even going as far as labelling it The Abandoned City.
June 16, 1903 Ford starts the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit; among the 12 initial investors are brothers John and Horace Dodge, who start manufacturing their own Dodge cars in 1915. Ford soon moves his operations to the suburb of Dearborn. ( The company hasn’t built a car in Detroit since 1910 .)
| Racial Composition of Metro Detroit (as of 2010) | Self-identified race Percent of population | Non-Hispanic white 65.18% | Hispanic and Latino (of any race) 6.2% | Black or African American 22.8% |
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Detroit’s top employer is Ford Motor Co. , headquartered in the suburb of Dearborn. One of the country’s “big three” automakers, Ford sells automobiles, trucks and SUVs, as well as commercial vehicles.
