Detroit Mayor Says City Undercounted In 2020 Census

Detroit MI

14 August, 2021

1:31 PM

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DETROIT, MI — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is planning to pursue "legal remedies" after he said the city was undercounted by at least 10 percent during the 2020 census. Newly-released census data shows Detroit had 254,000 occupied households in 2020, Duggan said during a news conference Friday. However, "DTE (Energy) reports there are nearly 280,000 residential households currently paying electric bills," Dugan said. "At a minimum, the census somehow failed to count 25,000 occupied houses with running electricity," he continued. While Detroit reportedly lost residents, the state of Michigan saw an increase of 2 percent, putting the state at more than 10 million residents. Read more via Newsweek