Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said that the 2020 U.S. Census reduced the population of Auto City by 10%.
On Friday, Dugan issued a statement to the media regarding the discrepancies in the U.S. Census. He stated that he also planned to take legal action behind the earl.
“The Census Bureau seems to undercount Detroit’s population by at least 10%,” Dugan said. “We will seek legal remedies to accurately count the number of people in Detroit.”
Duggan continued to talk with Congressman Rashida Tlaib about the newly released census data and the theory behind his wrong counting of the census.
“The census data released today shows that Detroit has only 254,000 households inhabited,” Dugan said. “DTE reports that nearly 280,000 residential households currently pay for electricity. At least, the census somehow failed to count 25,000 households with electricity.”
“This is exactly what Rep. Tlaib and I predicted on October 28, when we shared with the census staff their stories about how the Detroit community was undervalued, and felt that the count was closed a month before the original plan. Uneasy,” Dugan concluded. .
Demographer Kurt Metzger was interviewed Detroit Free Press About the U.S. Census results. “I can’t imagine any big city without questioning the outcome,” Metzger said. Metzger, who assisted in analyzing Detroit census data, said he expects “there will be thousands of appeals just because of this process.”
As the resident population continues to decline, Detroit’s U.S. Census data is a major problem for the city. The population of Michigan’s largest city fell by 25% between 2000 and 2010.
During the 2020 U.S. Census, residents and officials faced many problems, including the delay in dispatching staff to residents’ homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The former president Donald TrumpThe decision to stop the field operation of the census prematurely and the new rules established to protect the privacy of interviewees.
Although the population of Detroit has decreased, the population of Michigan has increased by 2%, bringing the state’s population to more than 10 million. Other counties in Michigan, such as Washtenaw County, grew by 8%.
Detroit mayoral candidate Anthony Adams competed with Duggan in the November mayoral election. Detroit Free Press Due to affordability, former residents of Detroit are moving to other cities.
Adams said: “People are starting to move into cities that have never moved before.” “They moved to other areas, partly because housing is cheaper. The focus should be on stabilizing the people who live here… and providing them with resources… The resources necessary to maintain the city’s existing population. Detroit,” Adams concluded.
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