Editing Detroit (section)

==Demographics==
{{Update|part=section|date=May 2025|reason=A lot has changed and turned around recently along with a revised estimate of first population increase in decades.}}[[File:Detroit City population pyramid in 2021.svg|thumb|Population pyramid of Detroit in 2021]]
{{US Census population
| 1820 = 1422
| 1830 = 2222
| 1840 = 9102
| 1850 = 21019
| 1860 = 45619
| 1870 = 79577
| 1880 = 116340
| 1890 = 205876
| 1900 = 285704
| 1910 = 465766
| 1920 = 993678
| 1930 = 1568662
| 1940 = 1623452
| 1950 = 1849568
| 1960 = 1670144
| 1970 = 1511482
| 1980 = 1203368
| 1990 = 1027974
| 2000 = 951270
| 2010 = 713777
| 2020 = 639111
| estyear = 2024
| estimate = 645705
| align-fn = center
| estref =<ref name="USCensusEst2023">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/detroitcitymichigan/AFN120217 |date=May 16, 2024|title=City and Town Population Totals: 2020–2023|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=May 16, 2024}}</ref>
| footnote = U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref><br />2010–2020<ref name="QuickFacts" />
}}
[[File:Ethnic Origins in Detroit.png|thumb|Ethnic origins in Detroit]]
{{See also|Demographic history of Detroit|Demographics of Metro Detroit}}

In the [[2020 United States census]], the city had 639,111 residents, ranking it the [[List of United States cities by population|27th-most populous city]] in the US.<ref name=CensusCity>{{cite web|url=http://2010.census.gov/2010census/popmap/ipmtext.php?fl=26:2622000 |access-date=March 3, 2012 |title=2010 Census Interactive Population Search |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525104940/http://2010.census.gov/2010census/popmap/ipmtext.php?fl=26%3A2622000 |archive-date=May 25, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="NYT Census">{{cite news|last=Seelye|first=Katherine Q.|title=Detroit Population Down 25 Percent, Census Finds|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/us/23detroit.html|work=The New York Times|date=March 22, 2011|access-date=March 23, 2011}}</ref> Of the large [[shrinking cities]] in the US, Detroit has had the most dramatic decline in the population of the past 70 years (down 1,210,457) and the second-largest percentage decline (down 65.4%). In [[1950 United States census|1950]], Detroit was the fourth-largest city in the US behind New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. While the drop in Detroit's population has been ongoing since 1950, the most dramatic period was the significant 25% decline between the [[2000 United States census|2000]] and 2010 census.<ref name="NYT Census" />

Detroit's 639,111 residents represent 269,445 households, and 162,924 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|5144.3|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|people&nbsp;|people}}. There were 349,170 housing units at an average density of {{convert|2516.5|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|units&nbsp;|units}}.  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. The average household size was 2.59, and the average family size was 3.36.

There was a wide distribution of age in the city, with 31.1% under the age of 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 29.5% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 10.4% 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.5 males.

===Religion===
According to a 2014 study, 67% of the population of the city identified themselves as Christians, with 49% professing adherence to [[Protestant]] churches, and 16% professing [[Roman Catholic]] beliefs,<ref>[http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/07/29/major-u-s-metropolitan-areas-differ-in-their-religious-profiles/ Major U.S. metropolitan areas differ in their religious profiles], Pew Research Center</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/americas-changing-religious-landscape/ |title=America's Changing Religious Landscape |publisher=[[Pew Research Center]]: Religion & Public Life |date=May 12, 2015}}</ref> while 24% claim [[Irreligion|no religious affiliation]]. Other religions collectively make up about 8% of the population.

===Income and employment===
The loss of industrial and working-class jobs in the city has resulted in high rates of poverty and associated problems.<ref name=time>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1925681,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090927055237/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1925681,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 27, 2009 | title=Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. Is in Motown | last=Huey | first=John | date=September 24, 2009 | magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> From 2000 to 2009, the city's estimated median household income fell from $29,526 to $26,098.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} {{As of|2010}}, the mean income of Detroit is below the overall U.S. average by several thousand dollars. Of every three Detroit residents, one lives in poverty. Luke Bergmann, author of ''Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City'', said in 2010, "Detroit is now one of the poorest big cities in the country".<ref>Bergmann, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=rt-S8Xe1S_wC&dq=%22Detroit+is+now+one+of+the+poorest+big+cities%22&pg=PA39 39]</ref>

In the 2018 [[American Community Survey]], median household income in the city was $31,283, compared with the median for Michigan of $56,697.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=0400000US26_1600000US2622000&d=ACS%20Supplemental%20Estimates%20Detailed%20Tables&tid=ACSSE2018.K201902&hidePreview=true|access-date=September 2, 2020|website=data.census.gov|title=Median household income in the past 12 months}}</ref> The median income for a family was $36,842, well below the state median of $72,036.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=0400000US26_1600000US2622000&d=ACS%20Supplemental%20Estimates%20Detailed%20Tables&tid=ACSSE2018.K201904&hidePreview=true|access-date=September 2, 2020|website=data.census.gov|title=Median family income in the past 12 months}}</ref> 33.4% of families had income at or below the federally defined poverty level. Out of the total population, 47.3% of those under the age of 18 and 21.0% of those 65 and older had income at or below the federally defined poverty line.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=0400000US26_1600000US2622000&d=ACS%20Supplemental%20Estimates%20Detailed%20Tables&tid=ACSSE2018.K201701&hidePreview=true|access-date=September 2, 2020|website=data.census.gov|title=Poverty status in the past 12 months by age}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right style="font-size: 90%"
|+ Median income in Detroit (as of July 1, 2019)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US,waynecountymichigan,detroitcitymichigan/PST045219|title=U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: United States; Wayne County, Michigan; Detroit city, Michigan|publisher= U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=September 22, 2021}}</ref>
|-
!Area
!Number<br />of house-<br />holds
![[Household income in the United States#Median income|Median<br />House-<br />hold<br />Income]]
!Per<br />Capita<br />Income
!Percent-<br />age in<br />poverty
|-
|[[Detroit City]]
|263,688
|$30,894 ({{increase}})
|$18,621 ({{increase}})
|35.0% ({{decreasePositive}})
|- style="background:whitesmoke;"
|[[Wayne County, MI]]
|682,282
|$47,301
|$27,282
|19.8%
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
|United States
|120,756,048
|$62,843
|$34,103
|11.4%
|}

===Race and ethnicity===
{{see also|Ethnic groups in Metro Detroit}}

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsed collapsible" style="font-size: 90%"
|-
|-
! Historical Racial Composition
! 2020<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|title=Detroit (city), Michigan|url=https://data.indystar.com/census/total-population/total-population-change/detroit-city-wayne-county-michigan/060-2616322000/|url-status=live|work=Data IndyStar|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124224913/https://data.indystar.com/census/total-population/total-population-change/detroit-city-wayne-county-michigan/060-2616322000/ |archive-date=November 24, 2021 }}</ref>
! 2010<ref>{{cite web|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/2622000.html |title=Detroit (city), Michigan |work=State & County QuickFacts |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715161518/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/2622000.html |archive-date=July 15, 2006 }}</ref>
! 1990<ref name="census1">{{cite web|title=Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Cities and Other Places: Earliest Census to 1990 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812191959/http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |archive-date=August 12, 2012 }}</ref>
! 1970<ref name="census1"/> 
! 1950<ref name="census1"/> 
! 1940<ref name="census1"/> 
! 1930<ref name="census1"/> 
! 1920<ref name="census1"/> 
! 1910<ref name="census1"/>
|-
| [[White American|White]] || 14.7% || 10.6% || 21.6% || 55.5% || 83.6% || 90.7% || 92.2% || 95.8% || 98.7%
|-
|&nbsp;—Non-Hispanic || 10.1% || 7.8% ||  20.7% ||  54.0%{{efn|name="fifteen"|From 15% sample}} || {{n/a}} || 90.4% || {{n/a}} || {{n/a}} || {{n/a}}
|-
| [[African American|Black or African American]] || 77.7% || 82.7% || 75.7% || 43.7% || 16.2% || 9.2% || 7.7% || 4.1% || 1.2%
|-
| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (of any race) || 8.0% || 6.8% ||  2.8% || 1.8%{{efn|name="fifteen"}} || {{n/a}} || 0.3% || {{n/a}} || {{n/a}} || {{n/a}}
|-
| [[Asian American|Asian]] || 1.6% || 1.1% ||  0.8% || 0.3% || 0.1% || 0.1% || 0.1% || 0.1% || {{n/a}}
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Detroit, Michigan – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 1960<ref>{{Cite web |title=37722966v1p24ch3.pdf |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1960/population-volume-1/37722966v1p24ch3.pdf |access-date=October 10, 2024}}</ref>
!Pop 1970<ref>{{Cite web |title=00496492v1p3.pdf |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1970/population-volume-1/1970a_mi-01.pdf |access-date=October 10, 2024}}</ref>
!Pop 1980<ref>{{Cite web |title=1980 census of population. Characteristics of the population. |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1980/volume-1/michigan/1980censusofpopu80124uns_bw.pdf |access-date=October 9, 2024}}</ref>
!Pop 1990<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michigan: 1990 |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1990/cp-1/cp-1-24.pdf |access-date=September 12, 2024}}</ref>
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Detroit city, Michigan|url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=160XX00US2622000&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Detroit city, Michigan|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2622000&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Detroit city, Michigan|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2622000&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 1960
!% 1970
!% 1980
!% 1990
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|1,182,970
|838,877
|402,077
|212,278
|99,921
|55,604
|style='background: #ffffe6; |60,770
|70.83%
|55.50%
|33.41%
|20.65%
|10.50%
|7.79%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |10.10%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|482,223
|660,428
|754,274
|774,529
|771,966
|586,573
|style='background: #ffffe6; |493,212
|28.87%
|43.69%
|62.68%
|75.35%
|81.15%
|82.18%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |77.17%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|N/A
|N/A
|3,420
|3,305
|2,572
|1,927
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,399
|N/A
|N/A
|0.28%
|0.32%
|0.27%
|0.27%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.22%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|4,206
|7,392
|6,353
|8,085
|9,135
|7,436
|style='background: #ffffe6; |10,085
|0.25%
|0.49%
|0.53%
|0.79%
|0.96%
|1.04%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.58%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] or [[Native Hawaiian]] alone (NH)
|N/A
|N/A
|268
|N/A
|169
|82
|style='background: #ffffe6; |111
|N/A
|N/A
|0.02%
|N/A
|0.02%
|0.01%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.02%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other race]] alone (NH)
|745
|4,785
|8,006
|1,304
|1,676
|994
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3,066
|0.04%
|0.32%
|0.67%
|0.13%
|0.18%
|0.14%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.48%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed race or Multiracial]] (NH)
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|18,664
|12,482
|style='background: #ffffe6; |19,199
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|1.96%
|1.75%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.00%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|N/A
|N/A
|28,970
|28,473
|47,167
|48,679
|style='background: #ffffe6; |51,269
|N/A
|N/A
|2.41%
|2.77%
|4.96%
|6.82%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |8.02%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''1,670,144'''
|'''1,511,482'''
|'''1,203,368'''
|'''1,027,974'''
|'''951,270'''
|'''713,777'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''639,111'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

[[File:FischerDetroit2010Census.png|thumb|Map of racial distribution in Detroit, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=#ff0000|White}} {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=#0000ff|Black}} {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=#00ffaa|Asian}} {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=#ffa600|Hispanic}} {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=#ffff07|Other}}]]

Beginning with the rise of the automobile industry, Detroit's population increased more than sixfold during the first half of the 20th century as an influx of European, Middle Eastern ([[Lebanese Americans|Lebanese]], [[Assyrian Americans|Assyrian]]), and Southern migrants brought their families to the city.<ref name="autogenerated1">Baulch, Vivian M. (September 4, 1999). [http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=109 Michigan's greatest treasure – Its people] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20070731040800/http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=109 |date=July 31, 2007 }}. Michigan History, ''The Detroit News''. Retrieved on October 22, 2007.</ref> With this economic boom following World War I, the African American population grew from a mere 6,000 in 1910<ref>[http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=70&CFID=15600792&CFTOKEN=21169095 Vivian M. Baulch], {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120710201644/http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=70&CFID=15600792&CFTOKEN=21169095|date=July 10, 2012}} "How Detroit got its first black hospital", ''The Detroit News'', November 28, 1995.</ref> to more than 120,000 by 1930.<ref>"[http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmcities1.html Important Cities in Black History]". Infoplease.com.</ref> Perhaps one of the most overt examples of neighborhood discrimination occurred in 1925 when African American physician [[Ossian Sweet]] found his home surrounded by an angry mob of his hostile white neighbors violently protesting his new move into a traditionally white neighborhood. Sweet and ten of his family members and friends were put on trial for murder as one of the mob members throwing rocks at the newly purchased house was shot and killed by someone firing out of a second-floor window.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit|last=Sugrue|first=Thomas J.|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0-691-16255-3|location=Princeton, NJ|page=24}}</ref>

Detroit has a relatively large Mexican-American population. In the early 20th century, thousands of Mexicans came to Detroit to work in agricultural, automotive, and steel jobs. During the [[Mexican Repatriation]] of the 1930s many Mexicans in Detroit were willingly repatriated or forced to repatriate. By the 1940s much of the Mexican community began to settle what is now [[Mexicantown, Detroit|Mexicantown]].<ref>{{cite web|date=July 29, 2020|title=INS Records for 1930s Mexican Repatriations {{!}} USCIS|url=https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/our-history/history-office-and-library/featured-stories-from-the-uscis-history-office-and-library/ins-records-for-1930s-mexican-repatriations|access-date=December 19, 2021|website=www.uscis.gov|language=en}}</ref> Immigration from [[Jalisco]] significantly increased the Latino population in the 1990s. By 2010 Detroit had 48,679 Hispanics, including 36,452 Mexicans: a 70% increase from 1990.<ref name="Denvir">Denvir, Daniel. [http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/09/paradox-mexicantown-detroits-uncomfortable-relationship-immigrants-it-desperately-needs/3357/ "The Paradox of Mexicantown: Detroit's Uncomfortable Relationship With the Immigrants it Desperately Needs"]. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120926112415/http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/09/paradox-mexicantown-detroits-uncomfortable-relationship-immigrants-it-desperately-needs/3357/ Archive]) ''[[The Atlantic]] Cities''. September 24, 2012. Retrieved on January 15, 2013.</ref> Per the 2023 [[American Community Survey]] five-year estimates, the [[Mexican American]] population was 35,273 comprising over 75% of the Latino population with [[Stateside Puerto Ricans|Puerto Ricans]] as the next largest group at 5,887.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=B03001&g=160XX00US2622000|title=B03001 Hispanic or Latino Origin by Specific Origin – 2023 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates – Detroit city, Michigan|date=July 1, 2023 |publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]] |access-date=December 10, 2024}}</ref>

[[File:DetroitGreektown.jpg|thumb|[[Greektown Historic District]] in Detroit]]
After World War II, many people from [[Appalachia]] also settled in Detroit. Appalachians formed communities and their children acquired southern accents.<ref>Detroitblogger John. [http://www2.metrotimes.com/culture/story.asp?id=15003 "Southland"]. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20100808110544/http://www.metrotimes.com/culture/story.asp?id=15003 Archive]) ''[[Metro Times]]''. April 28, 2010. Retrieved on May 12, 2012.</ref> Many Lithuanians also settled in Detroit during the World War II era, especially on the city's Southwest side in the [[West Vernor-Junction Historic District|West Vernor]] area,<ref>{{cite book |title= Lithuanians in Michigan|last=Grazulis|first=Marius K.|publisher=Michigan State University Press|year=2009|jstor=10.14321/j.ctt7ztcn0|isbn=9780870138133}}</ref> where the renovated Lithuanian Hall reopened in 2006.<ref>(November 28, 2006). [http://www.modeldmedia.com/inthenews/lithuanian73.aspx Southwest Detroit's Lithuanian Hall to reopen after $2 million renovation], Modeldmedia.com</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Bello|first= Marisol|url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061128/NEWS99/61128041 |title=Lithuanian center to reopen Thursday|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102232216/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061128/NEWS99/61128041 |archive-date=November 2, 2013 |work=[[Detroit Free Press]]|date= November 28, 2006}}</ref>

While African Americans in 2020 comprised 13.5% of Michigan's population, they made up nearly 77.2% of Detroit's population. The next largest population groups were non-Hispanic whites, at 10.1%, and Hispanics, at 8.0%.<ref name=2020CensusP2/> In 2001, 103,000 Jews, or about 1.9% of the population, were living in the Detroit area.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_05142.html|title=Detroit|publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org|access-date=March 29, 2013}}</ref> According to the 2010 census, segregation in Detroit decreased in absolute and relative terms and in the first decade of the 21st century, about two-thirds of the total black population in the metropolitan area resided within the city limits of Detroit.<ref name="Wisely">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2011-03-22-michigan-census_N.htm|title=Motor City population declines 25%|author1=Wisely, John|date=March 24, 2011|newspaper=USA Today|access-date=June 20, 2011|author2=Spangler, Todd}}</ref><ref>Towbridge, Gordon. [http://www.s4.brown.edu/cen2000/othersay/detroitnews/Stories/Racial%20divide%20widest%20in%20U_S_%20-%2001-14-02.pdf "Racial divide widest in U.S."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100618153840/http://www.s4.brown.edu/cen2000/othersay/detroitnews/Stories/Racial%20divide%20widest%20in%20U_S_%20-%2001-14-02.pdf |date=June 18, 2010 }} ''[[The Detroit News]]''. January 14, 2002. Retrieved on March 30, 2009.</ref> The number of integrated neighborhoods increased from 100 in 2000 to 204 in 2010. After being ranked the most segregated metropolitan area in the United States in 2000, Detroit was ranked fourth most-segregated in 2010.<ref name="Wilkinson">{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/detroit/metro-detroit-no-longer-most-segregated-143407993.html|title=Metro Detroit no longer most segregated|last=Wilkinson|first=Mike|date=March 29, 2011|newspaper=Yahoo News|access-date=July 27, 2012}}</ref> A 2011 op-ed in ''[[The New York Times]]'' attributed the decreased segregation rating to the overall exodus from the city, cautioning that these areas may soon become more segregated. [[File:Chaldean Sacred Heart Church & Chaldean Center of America.JPG|thumb|[[Chaldean Town]], a historically Assyrian neighborhood in Detroit]]

There are four areas of Detroit with significant Asian and Asian American populations. Northeast Detroit has a large population of [[Hmong Americans|Hmong]]<ref name="Chou">{{cite news|last=Chou|first=Kimberly|url=http://www.michigandaily.com/content/growing-hmong-detroit |title= Growing up Hmong in Detroit |newspaper=[[The Michigan Daily]]|date=December 7, 2006 |access-date=December 31, 2012}}</ref> with a smaller group of [[Laotian Americans|Lao]] people. A portion of Detroit next to eastern [[Hamtramck, Michigan|Hamtramck]] includes [[Bangladeshi Americans]], [[Indian Americans]], and [[Pakistani Americans]]; nearly all of the Bangladeshi population in Detroit lives in that area. The area north of downtown has transient Asian national origin residents who are university students or hospital workers. Few of them have permanent residency after schooling ends. They are mostly Chinese and Indian but the population also includes Filipinos, Koreans, and Pakistanis. In Southwest and western Detroit there are smaller, scattered Asian communities.<ref name=MetzgerBoozap8>{{cite web|last1=Metzger|first1= Kurt|first2= Jason|last2= Booza|url=http://www.cus.wayne.edu/content/publications/Asians7.pdf |title= Asians in the United States, Michigan and Metropolitan Detroit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109050601/http://www.cus.wayne.edu/content/publications/Asians7.pdf |archive-date=November 9, 2013 |website= Center for Urban Studies|publisher= [[Wayne State University]]|date= January 2002 |format=Working Paper Series, No. 7. p. 8}}</ref><ref name= "Archambault">Archambault, Dennis. [http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/asianyouth70.aspx "Young and Asian in Detroit"]. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20061117093047/http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/asianyouth70.aspx Archive]) ''Model D Media''. Issue Media Group, LLC. Tuesday November 14, 2006. Retrieved on November 5, 2012.</ref>

=== Crime ===
{{Further|Crime in Detroit|Detroit Police Department}}
{{Infobox UCR
|city_name=Detroit
|year=2019
|violent_crime=1,965.3
|homicide=41.4 {{decreasePositive}}
|forcible_rape=143.4 {{increaseNegative}}
|robbery=353.3 {{decreasePositive}}
|aggravated_assault=1,425.8 {{increaseNegative}}
|property_crime=4,299.7
|burglary=1,027.1 {{decreasePositive}}
|larceny_theft=2,235.5 {{increaseNegative}}
|motor_vehicle_theft=1,037.0 {{increaseNegative}}
|source_url=https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-6
|source_name=FBI 2019 UCR data
}}

Detroit has gained notoriety for its high amount of crime, having struggled with it for decades. The number of homicides in 1974 was 714.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stevens |first=William K. |date=April 28, 1974 |title=April in Detroit Is Murder |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/28/archives/april-in-detroit-is-murder-statistical-sample-half-a-million.html |access-date=December 5, 2019 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=March 7, 1971 |title=Detroit Reports Rise in Homicides |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/07/archives/detroit-reports-rise-in-homicides-126-murders-in-2-months-up-from.html |access-date=December 5, 2019 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The homicide rate in 2022 was the third highest in the nation at 50.0 per 100,000.<ref>{{cite web |title=2022 Homicide Statistics for 24 U.S. Cities |url=https://www.rit.edu/liberalarts/sites/rit.edu.liberalarts/files/docs/SOC/CLA_CPSI_2023_WorkingPapers/CPSI%20Working%20Paper%202023.02_2022%20US%20City%20Homicide%20Stats.pdf |access-date=December 24, 2023 |publisher=RIT Center for Public Safety Initiatives}}</ref> Downtown typically has lower crime than national and state averages.<ref name="MIC">Booza, Jason C. (July 23, 2008).[http://thedetroithub.com/site/user/files/2007RealityvsPerceptionsCrimeReport.pdf Reality v. Perceptions: An Analysis of Crime and Safety in Downtown Detroit]. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110428013503/http://thedetroithub.com/site/user/files/2007RealityvsPerceptionsCrimeReport.pdf Archive]) Michigan Metropolitan Information Center, ''[[Wayne State University]] Center for Urban Studies''. Retrieved August 14, 2011.</ref> According to a 2007 analysis, Detroit officials note about 65 to 70 percent of homicides in the city were drug related,<ref name="analysis">{{Cite news |last=Shelton |first=Steve M. |date=January 30, 2008 |title=Top cop urges vigilance against crime |url=http://www.michronicleonline.com/articlelive/articles/2322/1/Top-cop-urges-vigilance-against-crime/Page1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080802131457/http://www.michronicleonline.com/articlelive/articles/2322/1/Top-cop-urges-vigilance-against-crime/Page1.html |archive-date=August 2, 2008 |access-date=December 4, 2019 |work=Michigan Chronicle}}</ref> with the rate of unsolved murders roughly 70%.<ref name="time" />

Although the rate of violent crime dropped 11% in 2008,<ref>{{cite web |date=April 4, 2019 |title=Kym Worthy on reported Detroit crime drop: 'Public knows those numbers aren't true' |url=http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/09/kym_worthy_on_reported_detroit.html |access-date=September 18, 2009 |website=Michigan Live}}</ref> violent crime in Detroit has not declined as much as the national average from 2007 to 2011.<ref name="autogenerated5">{{cite web |year=2012 |title=Offense Analysis, United States, 2007 to 2011 |url=https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-7 |access-date=February 6, 2013 |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation}}</ref> The violent crime rate is one of the highest in the United States. "Neighborhoodscout.com" reported a crime rate of 62.18 per 1,000 residents for property crimes, and 16.73 per 1,000 for violent crimes (compared to national figures of 32 per 1,000 for property crimes and 5 per 1,000 for violent crime in 2008).<ref name="Detroit crime rates and statistics">{{cite web |title=Detroit crime rates and statistics |url=http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mi/detroit/crime/ |access-date=July 1, 2010 |publisher=Neighborhood Scout}}</ref> In 2012, crime in the city was among the reasons for more expensive car insurance.<ref name="car insurance">{{cite web |date=February 19, 2012 |title=Most Expensive Cities for Car Insurance |url=http://education.yahoo.net/auto-insurance/articles/most_expensive_cities_for_car_insurance.htm?kid=1KQVK |access-date=February 19, 2012 |publisher=yahoo.com |quote=I&nbsp;... it has a high crime rate – it scored an 889 on the City-Data.com 2010 crime index,&nbsp;... * Source: Runzheimer International. Average insurance rates are as of August 2011, and based on business driving for a 2012 Chevrolet Malibu LS. Assumes $100,000/$300,000/$50,000 liability limits, collision, and comprehensive with $500 deductibles, 100/300 uninsured motorist coverage, and any mandatory insurance coverage.}}</ref>

Areas of the city adjacent to the Detroit River are also patrolled by the [[United States Border Patrol]].<ref>{{cite web |date=August 21, 2023 |title=Detroit Sector Michigan &#124; U.S. Customs and Border Protection |url=https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/border-patrol-sectors/detroit-sector |website=Cbp.gov}}</ref>

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