Editing Southfield, Michigan (section)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1960= 31531
|1970= 69298
|1980= 75608
|1990= 75745
|2000= 78322
|2010= 71758
|2020= 76618
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|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.html|title=Decennial Census by Decade|publisher=[[US Census Bureau]]|access-date=}}</ref><br> 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2/> 2020<ref name=2020CensusP2/>
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===2020 Census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Southfield city, 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 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) – Southfield city, Michigan|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=1600000US2674900&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) – Southfield city, Michigan|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=1600000US2674900&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|17,537
|style='background: #ffffe6; |16,126
|24.45%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |21.05%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|50,181
|style='background: #ffffe6; |53,713
|69.95%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |70.10%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|135
|style='background: #ffffe6; |132
|0.19%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.17%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|1,217
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,790
|1.70%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.34%
|-
|[[Native Hawaiian]] or [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|16
|style='background: #ffffe6; |33
|0.02%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.04%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other race]] alone (NH)
|154
|style='background: #ffffe6; |535
|0.21%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.70%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed race or Multiracial]] (NH)
|1,542
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2,580
|2.15%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.37%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|957
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,709
|1.33%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.23%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''71,739'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''76,618'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

===2010 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name ="wwwcensusgov">{{cite web|title=U.S. Census website|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2012-11-25}}</ref> of 2010, there were 71,739 people, 31,778 households, and 18,178 families residing in the city. The [[population density]] was {{convert|2730.8|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|1}}. There were 35,986 housing units at an average density of {{convert|1369.9|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|units&nbsp;|units|}}. The racial makeup of the city was 70.3% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 24.9% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.2% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 1.7% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.4% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 2.4% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 1.3% of the population.

There were 31,778 households, of which 26.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 33.5% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 19.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.4% had a male householder with no wife present, and 42.8% were non-families. 37.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.22 and the average family size was 2.96.

The median age in the city was 42. 20.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.7% were from 25 to 44; 29.2% were from 45 to 64; and 16.9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 44.7% male and 55.3% female.

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, there were 78,296 people, 33,987 households, and 19,780 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|2,984.6|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 35,698 housing units at an average density of {{convert|1,360.8|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|units&nbsp;|units|}}. The racial makeup of the city was 54.22% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 38.83% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 3.09% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.20% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.03% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.64% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 2.99% from two or more races. 1.19% of the population were [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race.

Of the city's 33,987 households, 25.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.2% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 14.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.8% were non-families. 36.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 3.01.

The age distribution in the city's population was spread out, with 21.6% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 30.6% from 25 to 44, 24.8% from 45 to 64, and 15.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38. For every 100 females there were 84.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 80.9 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $51,802, and the median income for a family was $64,543. Males had a median income of $48,341 versus $37,949 for females. The per capita income for the city was $28,096. About 5.8% of families and 7.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.2% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those age 65 or over.

===Socioeconomic status===
The most common occupations for people in Southfield are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Southfield is a city of sales and office workers, professionals and managers. A relatively large number of people living in Southfield work in office and administrative support (16.00%), sales jobs (10.93%), and management occupations (9.72%). Southfield's populace is very well-educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation. Whereas 21.84% of the average community's adult population holds a 4-year degree or higher, 38.73% of Southfield's adults have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. Southfield's per capita income in 2010 was $28,995.<ref>Williams, Corey. "[http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mi/southfield/#description 'Neighborhood profile'].</ref>

===Ethnic groups===

====African Americans====
{{see also|History of the African Americans in Detroit}}
In 2002 Southfield had 42,259 black people, the second-largest black population in [[Metro Detroit]] and third-largest in Michigan.<ref name=MetzgerBoozaAAp8>Metzger, Kurt and Jason Booza. "[http://www.cus.wayne.edu/content/publications/AAwork8.pdf African Americans in the United States, Michigan and Metropolitan Detroit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109072805/http://www.cus.wayne.edu/content/publications/AAwork8.pdf |date=November 9, 2013 }}." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131109072805/http://www.cus.wayne.edu/content/publications/AAwork8.pdf Archive]) Center for Urban Studies, [[Wayne State University]]. February 2002. Working Paper Series, No. 8. p. 8. Retrieved on November 9, 2013.</ref>

As of 2011, many African Americans from Detroit were moving into Southfield and other suburbs of Oakland and Macomb counties. Tensions have occurred between existing middle-class blacks in Southfield and incoming Detroiters.<ref>Dawsey, Darrell. "[http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/02/housing_crisis_in_metro_detroi.html Housing crisis in metro Detroit creating black class tensions in Southfield]." ''[[MLive.com]]''. February 28, 2011. Retrieved on February 18, 2014.</ref>

====Chaldean Catholic Assyrians====
{{see also|History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro Detroit}}
As of 2001 many [[Assyrian people|Chaldo-Assyrians]] live in Southfield; they are descended from the ancient [[Nineveh]] region of the Assyrian homeland in North Iraq. The Chaldean Federation of America, an umbrella organization for most regional Chaldean groups, is in Southfield. As of that year, the largest Chaldean church, by number of congregants, was based here. The city also had the area's sole Chaldean retirement home.<ref>Smith, Natalie Jill. "Ethnicity, Reciprocity, Reputation and Punishment: An Ethnoexperimental Study of Cooperation among the Chaldeans and [[Hmong people|Hmong]] of Detroit (Michigan)" (PhD dissertation). [[University of California, Los Angeles]], 2001. p. 41. UMI Number: 3024065.</ref>

Southfield is also home to the Detroit area's Consulate-General of [[Iraq]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Consulate General – Detroit {{!}} Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Washington, D.C. |url=https://www.iraqiembassy.us/page/consulate-general-detroit |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=www.iraqiembassy.us}}</ref>

==== Jewish Americans ====
{{See also|History of the Jews in Metro Detroit}}
Since the rapid suburbanization of the 1950s and 1960s, many Jewish Americans from Northwest Detroit (particularly the Dexter-Davison neighborhood) moved to Southfield and other inner-ring suburbs such as [[Oak Park, Michigan|Oak Park]] and [[Huntington Woods, Michigan|Huntington Woods]]. [[Congregation Shaarey Zedek]] moved from Detroit to Southfield in 1962 to a modernist synagogue building designed by [[Percival Goodman]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-31 |title=Our History {{!}} Congregation Shaarey Zedek - Southfield, MI Conservative Synagogue |url=https://www.shaareyzedek.org/welcome/our-history/ |access-date=2023-05-12 |language=en-US}}</ref> The city was also previously home to Congregation Beth Achim on 12 Mile Road until its merger with Congregation Adat Shalom. The building was later purchased and demolished by a Jewish day school.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Headapohl |first=Jackie |title=History of Beth Achim Synagogue {{!}} The Detroit Jewish News |url=https://thejewishnews.com/2017/03/09/history-beth-achim-synagogue/ |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=thejewishnews.com/ |date=March 9, 2017 |language=en-US}}</ref> Though much of the Conservative and Reform Jewish population has since spread out to suburbs such as [[West Bloomfield Township, Michigan|West Bloomfield]] and [[Farmington Hills, Michigan|Farmington Hills]], the city maintains a thriving [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] and [[Lubavitch]] community. It is also home to [[Farber Hebrew Day School – Yeshivat Akiva]], a kosher grocery store, and many independent synagogues.