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.
Key takeaways
- Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties hold 39.0% of Michigan's residents and 38.4% of its MFTs on record (280 of 730).
- Oakland County has 1.24 MFTs per 10,000 residents, fifth among 83 counties; Wayne has 0.42 and Macomb 0.53.
- Married shares range from 64.0% in Beverly Hills to 22.3% in Detroit; 20 of 51 places exceed Michigan's 47.6%.
- Hamtramck has both the region's lowest divorced share (3.8%) and its highest share of households with children (48.7%).
- Twelve Metro Detroit places, including Taylor and St. Clair Shores, have no MFT NPI records listing the city as a practice location.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024), via Census Reporter API
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| Place | % married |
|---|---|
| Beverly Hills | 64% |
| Grosse Pointe Park | 61.6% |
| Troy | 57.8% |
| Novi | 57.4% |
| Birmingham | 57.2% |
| Rochester Hills | 56.9% |
| Grosse Pointe Woods | 56.6% |
| New Baltimore | 53.7% |
| Hamtramck | 53.1% |
| South Lyon | 53% |
| Farmington | 52.9% |
| Livonia | 52.8% |
| Farmington Hills | 52.8% |
| Sterling Heights | 51.8% |
| Flat Rock | 51.5% |
| Berkley | 51.2% |
| Trenton | 51.1% |
| Rochester | 51% |
| Dearborn | 50.4% |
| Allen Park | 49.4% |
| St. Clair Shores | 47.4% |
| Woodhaven | 47.4% |
| Dearborn Heights | 46.9% |
| Garden City | 46.7% |
| Southgate | 46.2% |
| Riverview | 46.1% |
| Wixom | 45.4% |
| Romulus | 43.7% |
| Fraser | 42.7% |
| Clawson | 41.6% |
Metro Detroit at a glance: 3.93 million people and 280 marriage and family therapists
Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties are home to 3,931,937 people, 39.0% of everyone in Michigan. They also account for 280 of the state’s 730 marriage and family therapists (MFTs) found in the federal NPI Registry, or 38.4%: 0.71 MFTs per 10,000 residents, close to the statewide 0.72.
That regional average hides a sharp split. Oakland County has 159 MFTs on record, 1.24 per 10,000 residents and the fifth-highest rate among Michigan’s 83 counties. Wayne County, the state’s most populous, has 74 (0.42 per 10,000), and Macomb has 47 (0.53). Below, those numbers sit beside marriage, divorce and family data for 51 places.
How this report defines Metro Detroit
For this report, Metro Detroit means the three core counties: Wayne, Oakland and Macomb. We do not include Washtenaw, Livingston, Monroe or St. Clair counties, which some definitions of Southeast Michigan add; those appear in our Mid-Michigan briefing. The 51 cities and Census-designated places analyzed here hold 2,592,710 residents, about two-thirds (65.9%) of the three-county total.
| County | Population | Adults married | Adults divorced | Households with children | Median age | MFTs on record | MFTs per 10,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne | 1,772,259 | 38.5% | 11.3% | 28.5% | 37.9 | 74 | 0.42 |
| Oakland | 1,279,825 | 50.5% | 10.5% | 26.4% | 41.3 | 159 | 1.24 |
| Macomb | 879,853 | 47.8% | 11.1% | 27.4% | 41.3 | 47 | 0.53 |
Michigan comparison: 47.6% married, 11.4% divorced, 27.1% of households with children, median age 40.2.
Marriage: from 64.0% in Beverly Hills to 22.3% in Detroit
Picture two Saturday mornings ten miles apart. In Beverly Hills, nearly two of every three adults are married (64.0%), the highest share in the region. In Detroit, 22.3% are, the lowest. Grosse Pointe Park (61.6%), Troy (57.8%), Novi (57.4%), Birmingham (57.2%) and Rochester Hills (56.9%) round out the top of the list.
Twenty of the 51 places are above Michigan’s married share. Half of them are in Oakland County. The rest include Grosse Pointe Park and Grosse Pointe Woods, Hamtramck, Dearborn, Livonia and Allen Park in Wayne County, Downriver’s Flat Rock (51.5%) and Trenton (51.1%), and Macomb’s New Baltimore (53.7%) and Sterling Heights (51.8%). At the county level, Oakland (50.5%) and Macomb (47.8%) sit near or above the state, while Wayne (38.5%) is well below it, a figure that partly reflects Detroit’s 22.3%.
Divorce: a wide range, with Hamtramck and the Grosse Pointes lowest
The share of adults who are currently divorced ranges from 3.8% in Hamtramck to 17.2% in the city of Wayne. At the low end are Hamtramck, Grosse Pointe Park (4.7%), Troy (6.4%) and Grosse Pointe Woods (7.6%). Twenty-seven of the 51 places are above the state’s 11.4%.
“currently divorced” counts people who divorced and have not remarried. It is a snapshot, not a yearly divorce rate. The CDC’s national figure of 2.4 divorces per 1,000 people (2023, provisional) measures something different, new divorces in a year, and cannot be compared directly. For statewide rankings, see divorce across Michigan’s cities.
Families with children: Hamtramck leads, Ferndale and Royal Oak trail
Hamtramck again stands out: 48.7% of its households include someone under 18, the highest in the region and second in the state. Beverly Hills (37.3%), Dearborn (35.2%), Melvindale (35.1%) and Novi (34.9%) follow. Ferndale (12.6%), Wixom (16.6%), Madison Heights (17.2%) and Royal Oak (17.3%) have the lowest shares. Twenty-four of the 51 places are above the Michigan figure.
Where Metro Detroit’s MFTs practice
By practice city, the largest numbers of MFT NPI records are in Detroit (40), Southfield (37), Troy (33), Royal Oak (23), Farmington Hills (20), and Novi and Rochester Hills (16 each). Twelve places have none on record, including Taylor (62,081 residents), St. Clair Shores (58,140) and Lincoln Park (39,257). Four of the five busiest practice cities are in Oakland County, which fits Oakland’s higher county rate. Our statewide report on therapist density by county places these figures in context.
All 51 Metro Detroit places of 10,000 or more
| Place (by population) | Population | Adults married | Adults divorced | Households with children | MFT NPI records (practice city) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit | 638,530 | 22.3% | 11.7% | 27.8% | 40 |
| Warren | 137,928 | 40.9% | 12.2% | 28.5% | 3 |
| Sterling Heights | 133,573 | 51.8% | 8.6% | 27.1% | 10 |
| Dearborn | 107,423 | 50.4% | 8.8% | 35.2% | 13 |
| Livonia | 93,851 | 52.8% | 11.1% | 24.1% | 15 |
| Troy | 87,898 | 57.8% | 6.4% | 31.5% | 33 |
| Westland | 83,633 | 37.6% | 14.2% | 24.3% | 4 |
| Farmington Hills | 83,515 | 52.8% | 9.6% | 25.2% | 20 |
| Rochester Hills | 77,089 | 56.9% | 8.9% | 30.8% | 16 |
| Southfield | 76,236 | 34.9% | 14.7% | 21.4% | 37 |
| Novi | 66,717 | 57.4% | 8.5% | 34.9% | 16 |
| Pontiac | 62,104 | 25.3% | 14.1% | 27.6% | 3 |
| Taylor | 62,081 | 38.4% | 14.8% | 28.1% | 0 |
| Dearborn Heights | 61,771 | 46.9% | 9.7% | 31.9% | 3 |
| St. Clair Shores | 58,140 | 47.4% | 13.2% | 20.6% | 0 |
| Royal Oak | 57,950 | 39.8% | 11.7% | 17.3% | 23 |
| Roseville | 47,123 | 38.5% | 14.6% | 24.6% | 6 |
| Lincoln Park | 39,257 | 37.4% | 14.7% | 29.6% | 0 |
| Eastpointe | 33,982 | 31.0% | 11.3% | 32.6% | 3 |
| Southgate | 29,366 | 46.2% | 11.6% | 26.3% | 7 |
| Oak Park | 29,318 | 34.7% | 14.3% | 23.0% | 2 |
| Madison Heights | 28,419 | 38.2% | 11.4% | 17.2% | 0 |
| Allen Park | 27,925 | 49.4% | 13.3% | 27.2% | 2 |
| Hamtramck | 27,743 | 53.1% | 3.8% | 48.7% | 0 |
| Garden City | 26,739 | 46.7% | 11.6% | 28.7% | 0 |
| Inkster | 25,428 | 22.4% | 13.4% | 32.7% | 2 |
| Auburn Hills | 25,105 | 38.3% | 11.9% | 19.8% | 1 |
| Romulus | 24,831 | 43.7% | 10.8% | 33.7% | 2 |
| Wyandotte | 24,489 | 41.1% | 15.0% | 24.2% | 2 |
| Birmingham | 21,763 | 57.2% | 11.9% | 28.4% | 10 |
| Ferndale | 19,190 | 37.1% | 9.9% | 12.6% | 1 |
| Trenton | 18,125 | 51.1% | 14.8% | 23.5% | 1 |
| Wayne | 17,310 | 41.3% | 17.2% | 25.3% | 1 |
| Wixom | 17,295 | 45.4% | 9.8% | 16.6% | 1 |
| Grosse Pointe Woods | 16,094 | 56.6% | 7.6% | 28.1% | 0 |
| Mount Clemens | 15,511 | 36.0% | 16.5% | 21.3% | 5 |
| Berkley | 15,149 | 51.2% | 11.4% | 24.9% | 0 |
| Harper Woods | 15,116 | 23.9% | 13.4% | 31.2% | 0 |
| Hazel Park | 14,963 | 33.2% | 13.0% | 20.5% | 1 |
| Fraser | 14,583 | 42.7% | 12.6% | 25.7% | 1 |
| Rochester | 12,934 | 51.0% | 8.7% | 27.0% | 10 |
| Woodhaven | 12,690 | 47.4% | 11.1% | 22.0% | 1 |
| Melvindale | 12,554 | 41.1% | 9.7% | 35.1% | 2 |
| Riverview | 12,186 | 46.1% | 12.7% | 28.0% | 0 |
| New Baltimore | 12,072 | 53.7% | 8.7% | 26.3% | 0 |
| South Lyon | 11,950 | 53.0% | 11.7% | 24.7% | 1 |
| Farmington | 11,504 | 52.9% | 9.0% | 24.6% | 0 |
| Clawson | 11,374 | 41.6% | 15.2% | 18.8% | 1 |
| Grosse Pointe Park | 11,319 | 61.6% | 4.7% | 29.3% | 2 |
| Beverly Hills | 10,524 | 64.0% | 10.2% | 37.3% | 3 |
| Flat Rock | 10,340 | 51.5% | 9.0% | 31.0% | 1 |
Methodology
Population, marital status and household figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s ACS 2024 5-year estimates (2020 through 2024), retrieved through the Census Reporter API: tables B01003 (population), B12001 (marital status, adults 15 and older) and B11005 (households with people under 18). County MFT counts come from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry, retrieved 2026-10-08: individual providers with the Marriage and Family Therapist taxonomy (106H00000X) and a Michigan practice location, assigned to a county by the Census ZIP code tabulation area centroid of their practice ZIP. The place column is a separate registry query: all MFT-taxonomy records (individuals and organizations) listing that city as the practice location.
Our arithmetic: regional population and MFT totals are sums of the three counties; 39.0% and 38.4% are those totals divided by Michigan’s 10,077,761 residents and 730 MFTs; 0.71 per 10,000 is 280 divided by 3,931,937, times 10,000; 65.9% is the 51 places’ combined population divided by the regional total.
Limitations
- An NPI is not a license check. The registry does not confirm that a therapist is actively licensed or seeing clients. MFTs who bill under an organization’s NPI or another taxonomy are not counted at the county level.
- Place and county counts differ by design. Place records include organizations and depend on how a practice writes its city name, so they do not sum to the county totals.
- Other professionals are missing, and Census figures are five-year estimates with margins of error. Psychologists, licensed professional counselors and clinical social workers also see couples and families but are outside this count.
What these numbers mean for Metro Detroit couples and families
These statistics describe neighborhoods, not anyone’s marriage. A high divorced share does not mean a city’s couples are struggling, and a high married share does not mean they are thriving.
For someone in Taylor or St. Clair Shores, the nearest MFT on record may be in another city. Online sessions remove that distance. Iryna Morhunova-Sutton, LLMFT, is based in Troy and works only by video, with individuals, couples and families anywhere in Michigan, so a session can fit between a work shift and a school pickup with no drive on I-696. Learn more about couples therapy or online therapy in Michigan, or compare Oakland County’s profile.
Update schedule
Census figures are refreshed with each new ACS 5-year release; NPI counts are refreshed quarterly. Explore every region from the Michigan hub.
Common questions
What counties are in Metro Detroit?
In this report, Metro Detroit means Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, the region's three core counties with 3,931,937 residents combined. Some broader definitions of Southeast Michigan also include Washtenaw, Livingston, Monroe and St. Clair counties; we cover those in our Mid-Michigan briefing.
What percentage of Metro Detroit adults are married?
It depends heavily on the county. 50.5% of Oakland County adults are married, 47.8% in Macomb and 38.5% in Wayne, compared with 47.6% statewide. Among the 51 places with 10,000 or more people, Beverly Hills is highest at 64.0% and Detroit lowest at 22.3%.
Which Metro Detroit city has the lowest divorce share?
Hamtramck, where 3.8% of adults are currently divorced, followed by Grosse Pointe Park (4.7%) and Troy (6.4%). The city of Wayne has the highest share at 17.2%. These are snapshots of current marital status, not annual divorce rates, and Michigan's statewide share is 11.4%.
How many marriage and family therapists are in Metro Detroit?
The NPI Registry lists 280 individual marriage and family therapists with practice locations in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, as of October 2026. Oakland has 159, Wayne 74 and Macomb 47. The registry does not confirm active licensure, and therapists billing under other credentials are not included.
Sources
- U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates (2020-2024), via Census Reporter
- Census Reporter: Table B12001, Sex by Marital Status (population 15 and over)
- Census Reporter: Table B11005, Households by Presence of People Under 18 Years by Household Type
- CMS NPPES NPI Registry (taxonomy 106H00000X, Marriage & Family Therapist), retrieved 2026-10-08
- U.S. Census Bureau: Using 1-year or 5-year American Community Survey data
- CDC/NCHS FastStats: Marriage and Divorce