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Mayor Sees Ray of Hope in Population Drop

DETROIT-Mayor Dennis Archer isn't happy his city's population dipped into six figures. However, the last census showed a percentage decline in single digits for the first time in three decades.

By Robert Carr | Updated on April 03, 2001

DETROIT-After years of double-digit declines, the city experienced its lowest drop in population in 40-years. However, the city resident count dropped below one million, which could end some Federal programs that are based on population count.

The US Census Bureau pegs the city’s population at 951,270, down 7.5% from the 1,027,974 reported in the 1990 census when the city experienced a 14.6% drop from 1980. In 1980, the city saw a 20.5% drop in population from the 1970 census.

“While I am disappointed the population numbers released by the Census Bureau indicate our city’s population is just below one million people, I am encouraged that the rate of decline is about half of what it was in 1990,” says Mayor Dennis Archer. “Couple this fact with the more than 100 residential housing developments and $13 billion in economic development activity occurring in the city limits and I believe that by the 2010 census the decline will have been reversed altogether.

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