Census Recount Shows Detroit Still Big City
Although it took a recount to do it, Detroit made it over the 1 million census hump, and officials say that retaining big-city status gives them something to crow about.
“I guess I can say ‘I told you so,’ ” Mayor Coleman Young said Tuesday. He led a massive “Detroit, Were You Counted?” campaign to locate at least 30,000 uncounted residents after the first count showed 970,000 people.
Falling below 1 million population would have meant losing state and federal dollars. Officials estimated it would cost Detroit about 16% of its annual operating revenue of $1.9 billion.
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