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Table 38. Rank<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> Subcommunities by Percentage Change <strong>in</strong> the Population
60+, 1990 - 2000
Number Percent Number Percent
Cerveny 615 28.6 Ketter<strong>in</strong>g/ Butzel -2,224 -27.8
Palmer Park 286 19.0 St. Jean -1,318 -28.8
Grandmont 228 11.1 Persh<strong>in</strong>g -1,855 -29.8
Harmony Village 354 7.3 Tireman -1,723 -31.0
Bagley 131 3.1 Airport -1,281 -31.1
Greenfield 74 2.0 Durfee -2,093 -31.7
Pembroke 44 0.9 Cody/ Rouge -2,300 -32.6
Mackenzie -105 -1.7 Vernor -2,145 -32.8
Rosedale Park -61 -3.5 Brightmoor -683 -32.9
Evergreen -154 -4.1 F<strong>in</strong>ney -1,655 -33.5
Downtown -360 -8.4 Rosa Parks -2,343 -34.2
Belle Isle -307 -8.8 Chadsey/ Condon -2,393 -37.3
Connor -283 -10.9 University -1,588 -37.8
Mack -436 -19.3 Central -1,960 -38.5
Redford -642 -19.3 Chene -1,263 -42.1
Boynton -543 -19.6 Osborn -2,030 -46.3
Brooks -913 -21.3 Denby -1,559 -47.0
W<strong>in</strong>terhalter -1,001 -21.5 Burbank -1,772 -49.5
State Fair/ Nolan -1,645 -22.6 Jeffries -1,225 -51.5
McNichols -691 -25.6
Table 39 addresses the second factor <strong>in</strong> the fund<strong>in</strong>g formula – percent m<strong>in</strong>ority seniors.
Twenty-five subcommunities have m<strong>in</strong>ority shares <strong>of</strong> 80 percent or more. There is a
geographic pattern to those that have the low shares <strong>of</strong> m<strong>in</strong>orities, <strong>in</strong> that they tend to be
located on the outer edges <strong>of</strong> the city. Population trends have shown that <strong>Detroit</strong>’s large
African-American population first located <strong>in</strong> the central corridor <strong>of</strong> the city – just east <strong>of</strong>
Woodward Ave. As the city has lost population – primarily whites – over the last 50
years, the African-American population has moved east and west. As <strong>of</strong> the 2000
Census, there was no subcommunity with a majority white population. It is the
subcommunities such as Brightmoor, F<strong>in</strong>ney, Redford and Cody/Rouge that have seen
their total populations turn to majority m<strong>in</strong>ority. The decreas<strong>in</strong>g numbers <strong>of</strong> whites that
have rema<strong>in</strong>ed tend to be older, long-time, residents who elect to stay for a variety <strong>of</strong>
reasons. It is the younger white families with weaker neighborhood ties and sufficient
resources that have left the city.
The last subcommunity tables address the issue <strong>of</strong> poverty. The subcommunities
distributed evenly around the city’s rate <strong>of</strong> 17.8 percent, with n<strong>in</strong>eteen above and 19
below and Brooks right at the city average. By far the highest poverty rate (45.6 percent)
was <strong>in</strong> the University subcommunity, which has freeways (Lodge, I-94 and I-75/375) as
its boundaries on all sides. Three southeast subcommunities (St. Jean, Ketter<strong>in</strong>g/Butzel
and Mack) that all share I-94 as their northern boundaries and the Jeffries subcommunity
round out the top five. On the low end are the well-to-do subcommunities <strong>of</strong> Palmer
Park, Pembroke and Bagley that lay next to one another, between Woodward Ave. (E),
the Lodge Fwy. (W), Eight Mile Rd. (N) and Six Mile (McNichols) Rd. (S).
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