Detroit Drops Further Down!

Detroit takes a turn down.

Detroit and Baltimore fall behind Memphis as the largest cities with a Black population.

Mayor Mike Duggan slams the noise. He is tired of Republicans and far right need to focus on fixing America's problems and stop bashing his city.

Detroit has now a population of 607,000 down from 639,000. Previously 709,000 in 2010, the largest city in Michigan had seen population decline by 20%. 

Detroit’s population decline has been evident in every census since the city’s peak in 1950, when 1.8 million people lived there. Detroit was home to 639,111 residents in 2020, according to new data released Thursday, a 10.5% decrease since the last count was taken in 2010.

Duggan said he believes the census undercounted the city’s population “by at least 10%” in a statement. Duggan reached his figure by comparing the number of DTE customers with the number of occupied households recorded by the Census.

“At a minimum, the Census somehow failed to count 25,000 occupied houses with running electricity,” Duggan said in a press release. “We will be pursuing our legal remedies to get Detroit an accurate count.”

Census Bureau officials vouched for the accuracy of the count during a Thursday press conference, but civil rights groups and politicians have expressed concern that the COVID-19 pandemic affected the outcome.

Population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau last Thursday show that at 621,056 residents, Memphis has a larger population than Detroit's 620,376 as of July 1, 2022. The most recent census survey data showed both cities were majority-Black cities with Detroit home to a 76% Black population and Memphis to a 63% Black population as of 2021.