Detroit
City in and county seat of Wayne County, and largest city in State of Michigan, United States
- Country
- United States
2
Sources- 1.Stated in archINFORMRetrieved 2018-08-06
- 2.Stated in Global LEI IndexRetrieved 2024-09-17
- United States
- Located in
- Population
- 639,111(April 1, 2020)
1
Sources- 1.Stated in 2020 United States Censusdata.census.gov/cedsci/table?t=Populations%20and%20People&g=0100000US,%241600000&y=2020Retrieved 2022-01-01
- , 680,250(2013)
- , 713,777(April 1, 2010)
2
Sources- 1.Stated in 2010 U.S. Gazetteer FilesRetrieved 2020-07-09
- 2.Stated in 2010 United States Censusdata.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=0100000US%241600000&y=2010&d=DEC%20Redistricting%20Data%20%28PL%2094-171%29Retrieved 2022-05-10
- +19 more
- 639,111(April 1, 2020)
- Area
- 370.028 km²(2016)
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- , 370.0289 km²(April 1, 2010)
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- 370.028 km²(2016)
- Elevation
- 183 m
- Head of government
- Mary Sheffield(since 2026)
- , Mike Duggan(2014–2025)
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Sources- 1.detroitmi.gov/government/mayors-office/mayorRetrieved 2022-09-06
- 2.Stated in c-span.orgRetrieved 2022-09-06
- 3.Stated in The New York Times“New Detroit Mayor Sworn In”nytimes.com/video/us/100000002628879/new-detroit-mayor-sworn-in.htmlRetrieved 2022-09-06
- 4.“It’s official: Mary Sheffield is Detroit’s 76th Mayor, making history as Detroit’s first woman mayor”detroitmi.gov/news/its-official-mary-sheffield-detroits-76th-mayor-making-history-detroits-first-woman-mayorRetrieved 2026-04-08
- , Dave Bing(2009–2013)
- Founded
- 1701
- Postal code
- 48201
- , 48202
- , 48204
- +43 more
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
285 statements · 18% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Motto text
- Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus
- Demonym
- Detroiter applies to part: masculine singular, masculine plural
- Detroiterin applies to part: feminine singular
- Detroiterinnen applies to part: feminine plural
- Detroitčan applies to part: masculine singular
- Detroitčanka applies to part: feminine singular
- Native label
- Detroit
- Détroit
- Social media followers
- 169,619(May 24, 2023) subreddit: detroit
- 34,425(February 6, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 2735086795
- 29,819(January 8, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 2735086795
- 25,890(January 5, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 2735086795
- 22,179(April 25, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 2735086795
- Member of
- Creative Cities Network(since 2015) subject has role: City of Design
- Water as percent of area
- 2.8828%(April 1, 2010)
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- 2.8828%(April 1, 2010)
- Per capita income
- $19,569(December 31, 2020) statement supported by: 2016–2020 American Community Survey
- Number of households
- 270,446(December 31, 2020) statement supported by: 2016–2020 American Community Survey
1
Sources- 1.Stated in 2016–2020 American Community Surveydata.census.gov/cedsci/table?d=ACS%205-Year%20Estimates%20Detailed%20TablesRetrieved 2022-05-05
- 270,446(December 31, 2020) statement supported by: 2016–2020 American Community Survey
- Territory overlaps
- Detroit urban area subject has role: primary place
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- Detroit urban area subject has role: primary place
- Nickname
- Motor City
- The 313
- The D
- Official name
- Detroit
- Hashtag
- Detroit
On other databases
113 identifiers linking Detroit across the web's reference databases
- All the Tropes article IDMotor_City
- ArchINFORM location ID1908
- Armeniapedia ID4116
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinedetroit
- Ballotpedia IDDetroit,_Michigan
- BBC Things ID7bc040a1-898a-49ef-b071-7c9646de8473
- BHCL UUID39d6d5ea-5c74-4fa9-9390-152f67d7c115
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID119406877
- British Museum place IDx55421
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDdetroit
- C-SPAN organization ID13606
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf10226518
- Curlie IDRegional/North_America/United_States/Michigan/Localities/D/Detroit/
- Domain namedetroitmi.gov
- DPLA subject termDetroit (Mich.)
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Detroit
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDdetroit-etats-unis
- Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID0343
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)41fAyg
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)560960
- Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID23852
- Facebook location ID114586701886732
- FactGrid item IDQ235871
- FAST ID1205010
- FES digital collections entity ID345506
- FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)26-22000
- France 24 topic ID (French)detroit
- Freebase ID/m/02dtg
- GeoNames ID4990729
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7013547
- Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)3035-1310
- Giant Bomb Wiki IDLocations/Detroit
- GitLab.com topic IDdetroit
- GND ID4011559-8
- GNIS Feature ID1617959
- Google Maps Customer ID6302372399018525906
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDdetroit-1
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0022235
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDDetroit
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)1950010
- Grove Art Online IDT022469
- Gynopedia IDDetroit
- Harper's tagdetroit
- ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID30396
- IdRef ID068635028
- IMDb keyworddetroit-michigan
- Interlingual Index IDi84452
- J9U entity ID987007559519105171
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID5130
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID (Russian)11416
- Joconde location IDc4b8143c-10d4-4f1b-bf98-86ff2639dd34
- Legal Entity Identifier549300BQRJP7MKKHOY28
- Lex IDDetroit
- Libraries Australia ID35734867
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn79045539
- Libris-URIc9prq5jw1v3fdlj
- LocalWiki IDdetroit
- Museum-digital place ID1939
- MusicBrainz area IDb03ff310-d8e2-45cf-9455-769f76641eb2
- National Library of Brazil ID000084239
- National Library of Lithuania IDLNB:V*143078;=BJ
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX455659
- Natural Atlas ID1903825
- NDL Authority ID00628791
- NE.se IDdetroit
- NL CR AUT IDge129000
- NLA Trove people ID1063440
- NSK (VIAF) ID000072473
- NSK ID981005669255109366
- OBO Gazetteer ID00206807
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning1637375
- Omni topic ID5a43c7a2-7210-427c-8a35-2022218af950
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3892129
- OpenHistoricalMap relation ID2744982
- OpenStreetMap node ID18994998
- OpenStreetMap relation ID134591
- OpenWeatherMap city ID4990729
- PACTOLS thesaurus IDpcrtr7Ukb3pWvx
- PermID5035884391
- Proleksis enciklopedija ID17527
- Quora topic IDDetroit-MI-3
- Reddit topic ID (obsolete)detroit
- RKD thesaurus ID1582
- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID4536
- SELIBR ID142797
- Slovak National Library (VIAF) IDvtls004447329
- SNARC IDQ49861
- SNK ID85053
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri IDgeografico/1206562
- SubredditDetroit