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Detroit Drops Below
1,000,000 Population

Detroit has become the first city in US history to have fallen below a population of 1,000,000. Newly released 2000 US Census data shows the city to have a population of 951,270, down 7.5 percent from the 1,027,974 registered in the 1990 census. This is in contrast to other large eastern and midwestern central cities that experienced a population turnaround (such as New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis). Detroit reached its population peak in 1950, at 1,850,000.

Year Population
(000)		 Increase %
1850 21    
1860 46 25 119.0%
1870 80 34 73.9%
1880 116 36 45.0%
1890 206 90 77.6%
1900 286 80 38.8%
1910 466 180 62.9%
1920 994 528 113.3%
1930 1,568 574 57.7%
1940 1,623 55 3.5%
1950 1,850 227 14.0%
1960 1,670 (180) -9.7%
1970 1514 (156) -9.3%
1980 1,203 (311) -20.5%
1990 1,028 (175) -14.5%
2000 951 (77) -7.5%


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