Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Detroit's population drops to lowest level in 100 years

Detroit's population dropped 25 percent over the last decade to its lowest level in a century, according to U.S. Census figures released on Tuesday. The city's population fell to 713,777 last year from 951,270 in 2000 when the last census was taken as the region suffered from a struggling automotive industry, plant closures and job losses. In the same period, the state of Michigan's population dropped 0.6 percent to 9.88 million.
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Chicago lost 7%, Cleveland 17%. But Detroit is back to the size it was before the creation of the automobile industry.

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