Detroit and Flint had double-digit population losses. Suburbs including Novi, Macomb Township and Dearborn had double-digit gains.

Thursday’s release of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 decennial count appeared to confirm the continuation of a decades-long migration of residents from cities to suburbs and away from rural areas like the Upper Peninsula. 

Related: 

• Census 2020: Michigan has a few areas of growth, wide swaths of decline
• Census losses could squeeze northern Michigan, Detroit as redistricting begins
• Census takeaways: West Michigan gains, Detroit & U.P. lose, state more diverse

While 50 of Michigan’s 83 counties lost population, western Michigan continued to grow, as did Oakland, Washtenaw and Livingston counties in southeast Michigan.

How did your community fare? Use this database to track population changes from 2010 to 2020.

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Census 2020: Look up population changes in your Michigan community

by Mike Wilkinson, Bridge Michigan
August 12, 2021

<h1>Census 2020: Look up population changes in your Michigan community</h1> <p class="byline">by Mike Wilkinson, Bridge Michigan <br />August 12, 2021</p> <p>Detroit and Flint had double-digit population losses. Suburbs including Novi, Macomb Township and Dearborn had double-digit gains.</p> <p>Thursday’s release of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 decennial count appeared to confirm the continuation of a decades-long migration of residents from cities to suburbs and away from rural areas like the Upper Peninsula.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Related:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><strong><a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/census-2020-michigan-has-few-areas-growth-wide-swaths-decline">Census 2020: Michigan has a few areas of growth, wide swaths of decline</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/census-losses-could-squeeze-northern-michigan-detroit-redistricting-begins">Census losses could squeeze northern Michigan, Detroit as redistricting begins</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/census-takeaways-west-michigan-gains-detroit-lose-state-more-diverse">Census takeaways: West Michigan gains, Detroit &amp; U.P. lose, state more diverse</a></strong></li> </ul> <p>While 50 of Michigan’s 83 counties lost population, western Michigan continued to grow, as did Oakland, Washtenaw and Livingston counties in southeast Michigan.</p> <div id="om-nyx3rqwgp1v9ugfnp3lg-holder"> </div> <p>How did your community fare? Use this database to track population changes from 2010 to 2020.</p> <div class="region"> <div class="region__content"> <div class="infogram-embed" data-id="b8e27273-3333-4f5b-bec6-aff5b311400f" data-title="Census 2020: Michigan" data-type="interactive">&nbsp;</div> <p>!function(e,i,n,s){var t="InfogramEmbeds",d=e.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];if(window[t]&amp;&amp;window[t].initialized)window[t].process&amp;&amp;window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement("script");o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src="https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js",d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,"infogram-async"); </p> </div> </div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/census-2020-look-population-changes-your-michigan-community/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://bridgemi.com&quot;&gt;Bridge Michigan&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/bridgemi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/cropped-android-chrome-192x192-1.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://bridgemi.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=5256&amp;amp;ga4=G-1E2G9MSHX5&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/census-2020-look-population-changes-your-michigan-community/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bridgemi.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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