Wayne County, Michigan

administration
Guardian Building , the county government building listed on the NRHP since 1989
US state :	Michigan
Administrative headquarters :	Detroit
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Building 500 Griswold Detroit, MI 48226 Phone: (313)224-0286
Foundation :	1796
Demographics
Residents :	1,820,584 (2010)
Population density :	1,144.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1741 km²
Water surface :	150 km²
map

Website : www.waynecounty.com

The Wayne County is a county in the US state of Michigan . The county seat is Detroit .

Wayne County is located in the center of the Metro Detroit metropolitan area .

geography

Wayne County is on the west bank of Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River , which form the border with the neighboring Canadian province of Ontario . The county extends over 1,741 km², which is spread over 1,591 km² of land and 150 km² of water. The following neighboring counties border Wayne County:

Oakland County		Macomb County
Washtenaw County		Essex County (Ontario, Canada)
	Monroe County

history

Anthony Wayne

Wayne County was one of the original counties that dates back to the establishment of the Northwest Territory . His name was chosen in honor of the American General Anthony Wayne . Originally, the county comprised the entire area of the lower peninsula of Michigan and some sections that now belong to northern Ohio , Indiana and Illinois . By order of the Territory Secretary and Acting Governor, Winthrop Sargent , the county's boundaries were changed on August 15, 1796 to begin at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River , thence west to Fort Wayne , then to the southernmost point of Lake Michigan , then along it West bank to the north to the territorial border in the Upper Lake , and from there to run along the territorial border to the starting point in Lake Erie .

After New York, the county was hardest hit by the corona epidemic in 2020 , when almost 300 deaths were counted in early April. That was nearly half of the casualties in the state of Michigan. On April 6th, Johns Hopkins University reported 293 deaths, on 11th there were 652, two days later 704, on 15th April 820, on 17th it was 981, on 19th it was 1070. The numbers have continued to rise since then: 1148 (April 21), 1278 (22nd), 1580 (April 27th), 1682 (April 29th), 1924 (May 4th) - at that time the number of deaths in the state of Michigan was 4,135, in Wayne County excluding Detroit 827

Historic Buildings

Wayne County Building

Detroit's old Wayne County Courthouse (now known as the Wayne County Building ) now houses part of the county government. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) with number 75000972 since 1975
Located on Joseph Campau Street in Detroit, on the Detroit River , is the historic Parke-Davis Research Laboratory (also known as Building 55-Detroit Research ). The research laboratory building of today's pharmaceutical company Pfizer was listed on May 11, 1976 by the NRHP as a historical monument with the number 76001039.
14 buildings in Midland County have National Historic Landmark status , plus a ship. A total of 338 structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of January 28, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1810	2227	-
1820	3574	60.5%
1830	6781	89.7%
1840	24.173	256.5%
1850	42,756	76.9%
1860	75,547	76.7%
1870	119.038	57.6%
1880	166,444	39.8%
1890	257.114	54.5%
1900	348,793	35.7%
1910	531.591	52.4%
1920	1,177,645	121.5%
1930	1,888,946	60.4%
1940	2,015,623	6.7%
1950	2,435,235	20.8%
1960	2,666,297	9.5%
1970	2,666,751	0%
1980	2,337,891	-12.3%
1990	2,111,687	-9.7%
2000	2,061,162	-2.4%
2010	1,820,584	-11.7%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000–2010 Wayne County Age Pyramid (2000)

According to the 2010 census , Wayne County had 1,820,584 people in 690,943 households. The population density was 1,144.3 people per square kilometer. In the 690,943 households there were statistically 2.67 people each.

The racial the population was composed of 52.3 percent white, 40.5 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 2.5 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 2.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.2 percent of the population.

25.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.7 percent were 65 years or older. 52 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 42,241 USD . The per capita income was $ 22,125. 21.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.