Over the last decade, Detroit and Michigan’s Black population dropped in numbers, according to the latest U.S. Census that reveals Black residents have grown as the majority in two Detroit suburbs, the Detroit News reported.
Thanks to a an increase, Black residents are more sprawled throughout Wayne County in places like Harper Woods, and Macomb County in cities like Eastpointe, which elected its first Black female mayor, Monique Owens in 2019.
A lot more African American are also calling Warren, Michigan’s third-largest city, home according to the article.
“Much of this is due to African Americans in Detroit moving to suburban communities with affordable housing and good schools,” Kurt Metzger, a demographer who is Pleasant Ridge’s mayor said in the story. “Here we have communities that border the city and which saw large numbers of African Americans moving in last decade when more than 180,000-plus African Americans left. They have found the suburbs to be welcoming and have continued to move in.”
According to the Census, the Black population ballooned 58 percent from 2010 to 2020 in Harper Woods; 89 percent in Eastpointe; from over 45 percent in 2010 in Harper Woods to 66 percent in 2020, and up over 29 percent in 2010 in Eastpointe to roughly 53 percent Black, according to the article.
Primarily Black suburbs before the recent U.S. Census report included Southfield and Oak Park.
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