More people call metropolitan Detroit home today than at any time in history.
But suburban populations are surging while the decades-long exodus from Detroit continues, new U.S. Census Bureau figures show. Macomb County swelled 9.9 percent, gaining 70,749 people. All the figures were released Wednesday by the Census Bureau and are based on population surveys done in the spring of 2000. By 2030, Tait said, the region will see 272,000 acres of rural land become urbanized. That would be the size of 12 townships, each measuring six miles by six miles.