Originally Posted by
Bham1982
Ferndale black population is near 8 Mile/RO Township, and basically an extension of Detroit. Rest of Ferndale is lily-white. Birmingham and RO have very small Asian populations, unlike neighboring communities. Bloomfield Twp Asian population is well west of Woodward [[in fact well west of Telegraph) fitting the pattern.
Southern Oakland Communities along Woodward:
Pleasant Ridge is 94.7% white, and 1.9% black
Huntington Woods is 96.0% white and 1.0% black
Berkley is 93.3% white and 3.0% black
Birmingham is 92.3% white and 3.0% black
In contrast, Farmington, W. Bloomfield have large black populations, Troy, Farmington and Novi have large Asian populations, and W. Bloomfield has a huge Chaldean population. Obviously Southfield, LV, OP, and RO Twp are majority black.
Basically none of these "off Woodward" communities are more than 70% or so white, while the "on Woodward" communities tend to be 90%+ white.
Not sure about the rest of your post, as I obviously referred to resident population, not whether someone at a gas station happens to be nonwhite.