Ann Arbor has a huge college next to its downtown and Lansing is the state capitol, so that's not really surprising. Also given the vacancy rate for downtown right now, it should be no surprise the the employment numbers are relatively low for a city/metro area of this size.

But what's really telling is how Troy has only 10,000 less jobs than Midtown and only 4,000 off from Grand Rapids. I thought Southfield would have been higher but it must have been due to where they considered 'downtown' to be. Either, it should be shocking at how decentralized Detroit is if you've been in the area for more than a day.