Demographic Profile of Senior in Wayne County, Michigan

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While the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging utilizes, as their poverty component, persons 60 years and over below 150% of poverty, the standard tabulations for the 2000 Census, unlike previous censuses, did not provide for such a tabulation. Rather, the data tables as produced only allowed calculations to be made for persons 55 years and over or 65 years and over. Michigan was forced to request, and pay for, a special tabulation. 6 The results of this tabulation are shown in Table 10. Table 10. Share of State’s 60+ Population Below 150% of Poverty, 1999 Region Special Tabulation Total ST Share Wayne County 64,852 24.5 1-A 42,530 16.1 1-C 22,322 8.4 This calculation resulted in an increase in Region 1-C’s share of the State, relative to the previous calculation of “less than poverty” (8.4 vs. 8.1 percent), and a large decrease of 4.3 percentage points in Region 1-A’s share, from 20.4 to 16.1 percent. The result was a four-percentage point decrease, from 28.5 to 24.5 percent, in Wayne County’s share of the State. One more assessment of poverty and the elderly is to look at how the number of persons 65 years and over, both in poverty and at less than 150% of poverty, distribute across the county. Such an analysis provides a picture of need and whether that need is distributed evenly across the county or concentrated in several areas. Table 11 provides an overall summary of this distribution. The first point to be made is that Region 1-A accounts for 71 percent of the poor elderly (65+ below poverty) and a slightly lower 65 percent of those below 150% of poverty. This drop in share as one increases the income threshold indicates that Region 1-A’s elderly tend to be more economically deficient than those in Region 1-C. Detroit, as would be predicted, leads all other communities in the county and accounts for 65 percent of the poor elderly of the county (60 percent at the 150% threshold). Region 1-C provides the next four communities in numbers of persons below 150%, though their combined share of the total – 14 percent – is less than one quarter that of Detroit. Elderly poverty is shown to be more geographically concentrated than the general population 65 years and over, as the top 6 cities (Detroit through Highland Park), while containing 62.5 percent of the county’s elderly, house 80 percent of the poor and 76 percent of those below 150 percent of poverty. 6 The special tabulation only provided counts of total persons 60+ at or below 150% of poverty by region. While such counts allow us to calculate each region’s share of the State total, as well as the share for Wayne County by summing Regions 1-A and 1-C, there is not enough information provided to allow for the calculation of a rate within a particular region – such as the percent of persons 60+ in Region 1-A that fall below 150% of poverty. Demographic Summary for Wayne County 8
Table 11. Share of Wayne County’s Elderly (65+) in Poverty and Below 150% of Poverty by Region and Community, 1999* Region/Community Total In Poverty Share of Wayne Below 150% Share of Wayne Wayne County 240,778 27,267 51,079 1-A 110,917 19,299 70.8 33,004 64.6 1-C 129,861 7,968 29.2 18,075 35.4 Detroit city 95,695 17,762 65.1 30,423 59.6 Dearborn city 15,134 1,150 4.2 2,579 5.0 Livonia city 16,018 835 3.1 1,793 3.5 Westland city 10,884 752 2.8 1,671 3.3 Dearborn Heights city 10,550 501 1.8 1,105 2.2 Highland Park city 2,279 701 2.6 1,046 2.0 Taylor city 6,823 442 1.6 970 1.9 Redford township 7,602 396 1.5 935 1.8 Southgate city 4,846 410 1.5 904 1.8 Hamtramck city 2,606 471 1.7 828 1.6 Inkster city 3,142 422 1.5 783 1.5 Lincoln Park city 5,590 262 1.0 729 1.4 Wyandotte city 4,408 175 0.6 638 1.2 Garden City city 4,068 266 1.0 586 1.1 Allen Park city 5,901 265 1.0 574 1.1 * Table includes those communities with at least 500 elderly below 150% of poverty. Living Arrangements One final variable was assessed that has a significant impact on the daily lives of the elderly. That variable deals with the living arrangements of the elderly – specifically the share that live alone. Such a living arrangement often leads to loneliness and a lack of interaction with others. If recreational and health-related services are not located in the neighborhood, and one has no vehicle available, or one that is unreliable, or if one has difficulty performing activities of daily living, it requires strong connections with others to be able to maintain a quality of life. Table 12. Share of Persons 60 Years and Over Living Alone, 2000 Region Total Households With 1 or more persons 60+ Percent of Total Households 60+ Living alone Percent of 60+ State Share State of Michigan 3,785,661 1,099,509 29.0 417,430 38.0 Wayne County 768,440 232,192 30.2 91,022 39.2 21.8 1-A 375,509 111,602 29.7 43,714 39.2 10.5 1-C 392,931 120,590 30.7 47,308 39.2 11.3 The analysis of living arrangements across the State showed that the elderly tend to live alone in similar degrees throughout the State. The share is slightly higher in Wayne County (39.2 vs. 38.0 percent) leading to a State share of 21.8 percent (last column), as Demographic Summary for Wayne County 9
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Table 20. Educational Attainment of
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whether these seniors are owning or
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Conclusions and Recommendations Whi
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TABLE 1. GENERAL POPULATION TRENDS
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TABLE 1. GENERAL POPULATION TRENDS
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TABLE 2. LIVING ARRANGEMENT TRENDS
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Appendix B Wayne County Maps
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Number of Persons 60 Years of Age a
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Percent of Population 60 Years and
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Population 60 Years of Age and Over
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