So this is my first post here.

I've always been interested in demographics, development patterns and such, and started a blog to post stats I've gathered into maps/tables/graphs. I'm from the Toronto area so several of my posts are about it, but I've made several posts recently that are about Detroit and thought I'd share content from them here.

First post with Detroit was showing how the population of different parts of various cities changed between 1950 and 2010 [[% change).

For Detroit I also included Hamtramck and Highland Park.

So the area in the NW corner of Detroit has more people in it than it did in 1950. It did lose population since it's peak, but the peak was after 1950 [[1960 or 1970 I think). There's a few others that peaked in 1960 too, but lost more population since 1960 than they gained 1950-1960.

You can see how Detroit compares to Pittsburgh, St Louis, Buffalo and Cleveland here
http://swontariourbanist.blogspot.ca...lt-trends.html

And Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Montreal here
http://swontariourbanist.blogspot.ca...mparisons.html

Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, Nashville, Miami
http://swontariourbanist.blogspot.ca...opulation.html

And Ontario cities [[1956-2011) - Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, London, Windsor and Kitchener-Waterloo
http://swontariourbanist.blogspot.ca...1956-2011.html

So all these cities [[except Miami and sort of Toronto) lost population in their cores, sometimes mostly due to household size changes, sometimes also due to significant abandonment, although most didn't lose as much as Detroit.