Motor City Population Plummets To Lowest Level Since 1910

Detroits population plunged 25 percent in the past decade to 713,777, the lowest level since 1910, four years before Henry Ford offered $5 a day to autoworkers, sparking a boom that quadrupled Detroit’s size in the first half of the 20th Century.

Census figures released to the Free Press -- by a government source who asked not be identified because the data has not been released publicly -- show the city lost 238,270 — on average, one resident every 22 minutes between 2001 and 2010.

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Hoorayforpeepee - 3/22/2011 2:48:52 PM

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I read a fantastic article on this a little while back where the writer explained the way communities have been starting to format around Detroit, almost a third of the city is completely abandoned now.

Decay is not good, but Detroit is a city with allot of spirit, let's hope it rises up from it's ashes

BondMI6 - 3/22/2011 2:56:37 PM

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I guess the new tagline for Chrysler should read-

"Exported from Detroit."

Hoorayforpeepee - 3/22/2011 4:15:14 PM

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I loled

delan - 3/22/2011 6:54:44 PM

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They need a "Guiliani" to go clean the place up. Seriously!

tecnopolis - 3/23/2011 2:33:16 AM

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....or Umbrella Corporation.