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…
Research and data
Original analysis of public data about relationships and therapy access in Michigan, with methods shown.
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.
West Michigan relationships by the numbers: 19.7% of Michigan’s people, 28.5% of its family therapists
From Grand Rapids' suburbs to the lakeshore and the southern tier: marriage, divorce, families and therapist supply across ten West Michigan counties.
The Upper Peninsula has 16 marriage and family therapists on record for 303,392 residents, and 8 of its 15 counties have none
From Ironwood to the Soo, a county-by-county look at where Upper Peninsula families can find a marriage and family therapist, and where…
In 13 Michigan places, most adults have never married, led by East Lansing at 75.2%
Where Michigan adults who have never married are most and least common, and why singlehood looks different in a college town, a…
Forest Hills is Michigan’s most married place: 75.2% of adults are married, vs 19.3% in East Lansing
A ranking of every Michigan place over 10,000 residents by the share of adults who are married, with the reasons the numbers…
Mid-Michigan relationships by the numbers: 14 counties, 2.44 million people and 177 family therapists
Lansing, Flint, the Tri-Cities and Ann Arbor in one data briefing: marriage, divorce, families with children and where family therapists practice.
Kalamazoo County has 2.29 marriage and family therapists per 10,000 residents, while 29 Michigan counties have none on record
A county-by-county count of marriage and family therapists per 10,000 residents, built from federal provider records and Census population data.
67 of Michigan’s 83 counties have at least one federal mental health professional shortage designation
What a federal mental health shortage designation means, which Michigan counties have one, and how the scores line up with where therapists…
About 1 in 5 Michigan marriage and family therapists with a recorded state license number holds a limited LLMFT license
How many of Michigan's marriage and family therapists are fully licensed, how many hold the limited license, and where each group practices.
29 of Michigan’s 83 counties have no marriage and family therapist on record, home to 643,339 people
If you have searched your county for a family therapist and found nobody, you are not imagining it. Here is the full…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
Michigan’s divorce rate is 2.2 per 1,000 residents, but in Alpena 21.6% of adults are divorced
The official annual divorce rate for Michigan, plus where divorced adults make up the largest and smallest share of the population in…
Alpena and Crawford counties lead Michigan at 16.9% of adults divorced; Washtenaw and Ottawa are lowest at 8.2%
All 83 Michigan counties ranked by the share of adults who are currently divorced, and why older northern counties sit near the…
In East Lansing, 75.2% of adults have never married, more than twice the Michigan share of 34.2%
Seven Michigan university towns compared on never-married adults, median age and renting, and what those numbers do and do not say about…
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