Editing Detroit (section)

===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>

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|+ 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>
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!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%
|}