How's Harper Woods These Days?

[Towne Cluber]

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.

You don’t get to count communities east/west of Woodward for having larger minority populations while at the same time discount the minority populations of communities right along Woodward.

“Presence” doesn’t obviously mean “resident” and you clearly stated the former not the latter. Furthermore, minorities can work/patronize more than just gas stations!