Main articles: History of Detroit and Demographics of Metro 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.
White
African-American
Asian
Hispanic (of any race)
Other
Detroit's population began to expand rapidly based on resource extraction from around the Great Lakes region, especially lumber and mineral resources. It entered the period of largest and most rapid growth in the early 20th century and through World War II, with the development of the auto industry and related heavy industry. Attracting hundreds of thousands of immigrants from southern, central, and eastern Europe and from the Near East, as well as black and white migrants from the South, the city became a boomtown.
The population of Detroit increased more than a thousand-fold between 1820 and 1930. Most of the increase occurred during the early decades of the 20th century.[1] This massive population increase was driven by the expansion of the auto industry during the early twentieth century. By 1920, Detroit had become the fourth-largest city in the country, and it held this position for decades.[2] Postwar suburbanization and industrial restructuring caused massive job loss and population changes in the city.
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Historical census population of Detroit, Michigan[1][3][4]
Total
White
African-American
^ abGibson, Campbell; Kay Jung (February 2005). "Table 23. Michigan - Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Large Cities and Other Places: Earliest Census to 1990" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
^Seelye, Katharine (March 22, 2011). "Detroit Census Confirms a Desertion Like No Other". The New York Times. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
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