Quote Originally Posted by rjk View Post
I'm specifically interested in the number of Hamtramck residents who are of Polish decent. I've heard 22%, but those numbers seem to be from back in 2000.
A few searches didn't lead me to any current stats.
Thanks for any help.
This is likely because the US Census stopped tracking ethnicity. So I don't know if anyone really knows anymore.

Rest assured, the number has dropped from 22%. The Bengladeshi population of Hamtramck has exploded in the past ten years. Many of the Poles were older and many have died off or moved to the suburbs. Still there are quite a lot of Poles still living there, both older and some working class younger folks. This is anecdotal, of course, but it's basically all we have anymore.

As long as the Polish churches and Polish businesses remain, so will at least some of the population. It is what many are comfortable with.

Top that off with the heavy restrictions against Polish immigration to the US, and the lack of a Catholic school in Hamtramck, and you're probably not going to see much growth in terms of the Polish population.