Editing Livonia, Michigan (section)

===2000 census===
As of the census<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> of 2000, there were 100,545 people, 38,089 households, and 28,071 families living in the city. The population density was {{convert|2,815.0|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 38,658 housing units at an average density of {{convert|1,082.3|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the city was 95.45% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.95% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.22% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 1.94% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.01% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.32% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.11% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] people of any race were 1.72% of the population. 16.3% were of [[Polish people|Polish]], 15.9% [[Germans|German]], 11.2% [[Irish people|Irish]], 8.6% [[Italians|Italian]] and 8.5% [[English people|English]] ancestry according to [[Census 2000]]. Livonia has a substantial [[History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro Detroit|Middle Eastern]] population, mostly [[Arab Americans|Arab]], and trace their ancestry to the [[Levant]] region, mainly from [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], [[Palestine]], and [[Lebanon]], and are of the [[Christianity in the Middle East|Christian faith]]. The Arab-American community has few churches in the city, Mainly Saint Mary's Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church. The community settled in Livonia in the late 1960s and has since continued a steady growth.

There were 38,089 households, out of which 32.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.8% were married couples living together, 8.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.3% were non-families. Of all households, 22.9% were made up of individuals, and 11.1% had someone living alone who was 65&nbsp;years of age or older. The average household size was 2.59 and the average family size was 3.07.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 23.8% under the age of 18, 6.3% was from 18 to 24, 28.7% was from 25 to 44, 24.3% was from 45 to 64, and 16.9% was 65&nbsp;years of age or older. The median age was 40&nbsp;years. For every 100 females, there were 94.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.8 males.

As of 2000, Livonia was the city in the United States with over 100,000 people that had the highest percentage of non-Hispanic white people.<ref name=SelectedCommSchp1>"[http://www.cus.wayne.edu/content/publications/CENSUS_FACT_SHEET_3.pdf Race and Ethnicity in the Tri-County Area: Selected Communities and School Districts]." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131110203515/http://www.cus.wayne.edu/content/publications/CENSUS_FACT_SHEET_3.pdf Archive]) ''From a Child's Perspective: Detroit Metropolitan Census 2000 Fact Sheets Series''. [[Wayne State University]]. June 2002. Volume 2, Issue 2. p. 1. Retrieved on November 10, 2013.</ref>