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Demographics of Michigan. Michigan is the third-most populous state in the Midwestern United States, with a population of 10,077,331 according to the 2020 United States census. The vast majority of the state's population lives in the Lower Peninsula, with only 301,609 residing in the Upper Peninsula. Culturally, the Lower Peninsula is more ...
Within the Detroit–Warren–Dearborn Metropolitan Statistical Area (Detroit MSA), there were 4,296,250 people residing. The census reported 70.1% White, 22.8% African-American, 0.3% Native American, 3.3% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.2% from other races, and 2.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.2% of the ...
Demographic history of Detroit. Demographics of Detroit. Population pyramid of Detroit in 2021. Population. 639,111 (2020) Race and ethnicity in Detroit as of the 2000 census. Each dot is 25 people. The map shows the heavy legacy of historic segregation in American cities.
In 2002 Detroit had 771,966 black residents, making up 81.2% of its population and making it the city with the largest African-American population in Michigan. [40] That year it was also, out of all of the U.S. cities with 100,000 or more people, the city with the second highest percentage of black people. [2]
The 2000 census and 2010 American Community Survey inquired about the "ancestry" of residents, while the 2020 census allowed people to enter their "origins". [5] The Census Bureau also classified respondents as either Hispanic or Latino, identifying as an ethnicity, which comprises the minority group in the nation. [2] [3] [4]
Wayne County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of 2020, the United States Census placed its population at 1,793,561, making it the 19th-most populous county in the United States. [4] The county seat is Detroit. [5] The county was founded in 1796 and organized in 1815. [1]
The table below shows the percentage of free blacks as a percentage of the total black population in various U.S. regions and U.S. states between 1790 and 1860 (the blank areas on the chart below mean that there is no data for those specific regions or states in those specific years). [citation needed]
The Census Bureau implemented a Census Quality Survey, gathering data from about 50,000 households to assess the reporting of race and Hispanic origin in the 2000 census with the purpose of creating a way to make comparisons between the 2000 census with previous census racial data.