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Warren, Michigan (Where I grew up, not where I am now.. and it has changed a whole lot in the last 20 years!)
Warren is a city in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 138,247, making Warren the third most populous city in Michigan and Detroit's largest suburb.
The city is home to a wide variety of businesses, including General Motors' Technical Center. The current mayor is Mark A. Steenbergh, who was elected to his third four-year term in November 2003. Eminem attended Warren Lincoln High School from 1986-1989. Warren is the home of the United States Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM), the Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC), the National Automotive Center (NAC), and the headquarters of Big Boy Restaurants International.
Warren was incorporated as a city in 1957 and consists of what was previously Warren Township, less the city of Center Line.
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 138,247 people and 36,719 families residing in the city. The population density is 1,556.6/km˛ (4,031.8/mi˛). There are 57,249 housing units at an average density of 644.6/km˛ (1,669.6/mi˛). The racial makeup of the city is 91.29% Caucasian, 2.67% African American, 0.36% Native American, 3.09% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.34% from other races, and 2.23% from two or more races. 1.35% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The median income for a household in the city is $44,626, and the median income for a family is $52,444. Males have a median income of $41,454 versus $28,368 for females. The per capita income for the city is $21,407. 7.4% of the population and 5.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 9.5% of those under the age of 18 and 5.8% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
There are a number of distinguishing characteristics about Warren which render it unique:
Warren was one of the faster growing cities in the country between 1950 and 1970. In 1950 the official population of Warren was 727; in 1960, it was 89,240; by 1970 it had grown to 179,274.
Since 1970, Warren has been consistently one of the fastest declining cities in population in the country. The population dropped by 10% each of the next two decades (1980: 161,060; 1990: 144,864), and continued its downward spiral by shedding another 4.6% of its population by 2000.
Warren is currently one of the oldest large cities in the U.S., in terms of age of population. 17.3% of Warren's population was 65 or older at the last census, tied for fifth with Hollywood, FL among cities with 100,000+ population, and indeed the highest ranking city outside of Florida or Hawaii.[1]
Warren had the disctinction of having the highest percentage of Caucasians in large city as well. In 1970, of its total population of 179,274, only 838 were not Caucasian, meaning 99.5% of Warren's population was white. Nearby Livonia now holds the distinction of being America's "whitest city" as of the 2000 Census. Integration has come slowly to Warren: the Cacasian composition has dropped only slightly in the past few decades, to 98.2% in 1980, 97.3% in 1990, and 91.3% in 2000. Warren remains a population center for people of Polish, Italian, Ukrainian, and Scotch-Irish descent.
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