• 713k Detroit’s current population, according to the census figures released today
• 951k Detroit’s population back in 2000 — all told, that’s about a 25 percent drop in just a decade
• half of all counties in Michigan have shrunk — it’s the only state to lose population source

• » Dave Bing, not so happy: The mayor of Detroit (who played a mean game of hoops in his day and created an unintentional Robocop campaign) says that the Census totally under-counted his villa. He says the town has 750,000 people at least. While there were areas with big jumps throughout Michigan, they were mostly in suburbs (Lansing = where it’s at). Da Yoopers had some pretty huge declines of their own — one county lost 13 percent of its population.

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