The population dwindled to less than a 100000 people and left over 5000 homes abandoned. The Flint water crisis was a public health crisis that started in 2014 and lasted until 2019 after the drinking water for the city of Flint Michigan was contaminated with lead and possibly Legionella bacteria. But what caused such a drastic decline to one of Americas brightest automotive centers.
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The city of Flint lost more than 500 residents from 2017 to 2018 going from an estimated population of 96488 to 95943.
The city has lost 6500 residents since the 2010 census counted 102434.
Flint is the largest city and seat of Genesee County Michigan United StatesLocated along the Flint River 66 miles 106 km northwest of Detroit it is a principal city within the region known as Mid Michigan. According to the 2010 census Flint has a population of 102434 making it the seventh largest city in MichiganThe Flint metropolitan area is located entirely within Genesee County. Flint is a city located in Michigan. With a 2020 population of 94762 it is the 7th largest city in Michigan and the 352nd largest city in the United States.
Flint is currently declining at a rate of -041 annually and its population has decreased by -749 since the most recent census which recorded a population of 102434 in 2010.
The Center Square Flint experienced the highest net migration decline 55 percent among the metro areas in Michigan between 2010 and 2018 according to an analysis by 247 Wall St. Over that time period the city recorded a 44 percent drop in its overall population the study found. FLINT MI -- Flints population has dropped below 100000 for the first time since the 1920s according to a new Census estimate issued Thursday May 22. The Census Bureau report says Flints.
The Bureau estimated that 45 percent of Flint residents lived below the poverty line in 2016 up from 42 percent in 2015.
Flint also had the highest rate of childhood poverty with an estimated 58. Flint Michigan was once a thriving industrial city of nearly a quarter million people with most residents employment tied in some way to automobile manufacturing. The population has dwindled to less than 100000 in the aftermath of auto plant closures during the 1980s and the city has demolished over 5000 abandoned houses in the last decade. QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties and for cities and towns with a population of 5000 or more.
The peak population of Flint was in 1960 when its population was 196940.
In 1960 Flint was the 62nd largest city in the US. Now its fallen to the 335th largest city in the US. Flint is currently 515 smaller than it was in 1960. How quickly is Flint shrinking.
Flints population skyrocketed from 13103 in 1900 to 156492 in 1930 according to the US.
Census Bureau partly because of the booming automotive industry in the area. The year 1937 marked the first major strike in the US. Auto industry with the United Auto Workers organizing a sit-in strike in several plants owned by GM. Between 2017 and 2018 the population of Flint MI declined from 97810 to 97161 a -0664 decrease and its median household income grew from 26330 to 27717 a 527 increase.
The city found itself in a precipitous decline.
Flints population has since plummeted to just 100000 people a majority of whom are African-American and about 45 percent of its residents live. Flints population dropped last year by almost 540 residents census figures show. The city faces an ongoing lead-tainted water crisis though the population decline was less than the previous. This GIF shows the rise green and fall purple of Michigan counties from 1950 to 2018.
Wayne County and the UP were the most vulnerable areas to decline like noted in the story map.
In addition the current status of Michigans population is generally decreasing. By contrast Michigans poverty rate was at 162 percent with 74 percent at the below 50 percent level. Blacks make up 184 percent of those living in poverty which amounts to nearly 23000 Flint. Since 1989 the tragedy of Flints decline has been repeated in a number of Midwestern cities plagued with shrinking populations opiate addiction joblessness and a pervasive feeling of.
