More white residents moving in or fewer white residents moving out?Detroit sees rise in white residents after 60 years
A stunning demographic reversal is taking shape in Detroit.
After six decades of white flight, the percentage of white Detroiters has shot up dramatically, according to a new census survey released Tuesday.
The survey, more estimate than precise numbers, shows that the percentage of white, non-Hispanic Detroiters rose from 8.4% of the city's population in 2008 to 13.3% last year.
Much of the rise can be pegged to younger white people -- along with some empty nesters -- moving to the city, even as African Americans continue to leave for the suburbs.
"What we're seeing is a move back to the city by a younger population that sees the city as cool," said Kurt Metzger, director of Data Driven Detroit.
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