The Changing Racial Composition of Wayne County and Detroit

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Figure 1 delimits the study region of Detroit City and surrounding entities. There shows the percentage of each tract that was Hispanic for 1990 and 2000, while Figure 4 displays the change in number of Hispanics during the 1990s. Only one tract was at least 50% Hispanic in 1990. Increased immigration and internal migration from other regions of the country created high population densities in this area, and the Hispanic population spread out to surrounding tracts during the 1990s. Tracts with at least 25% Hispanic population form a contiguous one. By 2000, these 20 tracts consisted of a core of 12 tracts where the Hispanic population ranged from 50.0 to 77.1% (Figure 3). A further nine tracts had Hispanic population ranges from 25.0 to 49.9%.

Several tracts to the Southwest had between 5.0 and 24.9% Hispanic population. These tracts are outside the city limits of Detroit and represent Hispanic suburbanization. The suburb of Dearborn is blocking expansion of the Hispanic population and channeling it along the less desirable industrial area along the river. Dearborn has traditionally been a non-Hispanic white community with strong antagonism toward the black population (Farley et al. 1994), and it is possible that they would also be antagonistic toward the Hispanic population. Table 1 displays the change in population for non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, and Hispanics between 1990 and 2000 for Wayne County and Detroit City. Wayne County's non-Hispanic white population declined by 13.2% between 1990 and 2000, while Detroit's non-Hispanic white population declined by 52.9%. Thus, whereas 56% of Wayne County's population was non-Hispanic white in 1990, by 2000, it had declined to 49.9%, while city proportions declined from 20.7% non-Hispanic white to 10.5% by 2000.

Wayne County's non-Hispanic black population increased by 2.3% while Detroit's declined by 0.3% -representing increased suburbanization of the non-Hispanic black population as well as outmigration to other regions of the country, likely a result of deindustrialization. These county and city trends in non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black populations are too coarse for further evaluation but they do show that Detroit and Wayne County have been declining in overall population. In contrast to the slow growth or decline of the non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black populations, Wayne County and Detroit's Hispanic population grew by 52.9% and 65.7%, respectively, which kept the total population of these two entities from even greater declines during the 1990s.