The staggering loss over the past decade surprised even demographers who track Detroit’s out-migration patterns. It has been the most segregated city in the country and it is still pretty segregated, but not as much.' 'Detroit has suffered the biggest loss of blacks the city has shown, and that’s tied to the foreclosures in the city’s housing.
The ones who stay in the area want to move to the suburbs, 'They're going to the Sun Belt and particularly the South. This was also thought to be a trend in Detroit.ĭemographer at Brookings Institution William Frey, who analysed the data, said: 'In the northern cities, a lot of young blacks who might have grown up in cities are leaving maybe the entire region.
Trashed and burned: Gutted and vacant houses line the streets of Detroit, as census figures show the population has plummeted by 25 per cent in ten years
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