East Grand Rapids leads Michigan: 50.3% of households have children, nearly double the state’s 27.1%
A ranked look at where Michigan's households with kids live, from Grand Rapids suburbs to Detroit's inner ring to college towns.
Family relationships
Riverview has Michigan’s highest share of widowed adults at 11.2%, nearly double the state’s 5.8%
Where widowed Michiganders live, why older communities rank highest, and what the numbers mean for families supporting someone after a loss.
In Michigan cities, homeownership and marriage rise together: 82 of 101 places fall on the same side of the state line
Owner-occupied homes and married adults cluster in the same Michigan places. Here is the ranking, the exceptions and what the link does…
Beverly Hills and Ann Arbor lead Michigan in working from home, at more than double the state’s 13.5%
Remote work is clustered in Oakland County and university towns. Here is the full ranking, and what a shared home office can…
Nearly half of Hamtramck residents were born abroad: Michigan’s immigrant communities by city
A respectful, data-first look at where Michigan's immigrant families live, from Hamtramck and Troy to Kentwood and Okemos.
Michigan places where most adults hold a degree average 50.6% married, but college towns break the pattern
Do Michigan communities with more college graduates have more married adults? Mostly, yes, but the link is moderate, and college towns show…
In Michigan’s highest-income places, 55.2% of adults are married, vs 31.0% in the lowest-income places
Across Michigan's larger communities, married shares rise with household income. Here is how strong that link is, and why it does not…
Leelanau County is Michigan’s most married at 62.4% of adults; Isabella is least married at 36.9%
Every Michigan county ranked by the share of adults who are married, from the northern lakeshore to the state's university and urban…
Michigan’s median age runs from 21.3 in East Lansing to 48.2 in Trenton: the youngest and oldest cities
Michigan's cities span nearly 27 years in median age. Here is who is youngest, who is oldest, and why two kinds of…
Metro Detroit relationships by the numbers: 51 cities, 3.93 million people and 280 family therapists
A data briefing on marriage, divorce, families with children and family-therapist supply across Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
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