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Detroit and Michigan

Detroit crime declines in '04

Detroit may be the most segregated metropolitan area in the U.S., but it's lost the title as the most violent city in the U.S.

Here are the 2004 totals (for communities with a population over 10,000):

 

Most Segregated

Apparently, Detroit is the most segregated metropolitan area in the U.S.  "More than 80 percent of Detroit's population is black; in the sprawling suburbs that surround it, less than 4 percent of the population is, according to the most recent surveys by the U.S. Census Bureau. In a region so polarized by skin colors, race is almost inescapable."

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