page_title: Ethnic groups in Metro Detroit
section_title: African-Americans
hierarchical_section_title: Ethnic groups in Metro Detroit / African-Americans
caption_attribution_description: Front entrance of the the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan.
context_page_description: Metro Detroit has the following ethnic groups:
context_section_description: As of 2002 72% of Michigan's metropolitan black population resides in the Detroit PMSA. That year, Wayne County had 864,627 black people, making up 42% of its total residents and 85% of the total number of black people in the PMSA. In 2002 Oakland County had the second highest black population in the state, with 119,708 black people. Aside from Wayne, Oakland, and Genesee counties, there were no counties in Michigan that had over 50,000 black people.
  In 2002 Detroit had 771,966 black residents, making up 81.2% of its population and making it the city with the largest African-American population in Michigan. That year it was also, out of all of the U.S. cities with 100,000 or more people, the city with the second highest percentage of black people. Southfield was the city with the third largest African-American population, with 42,259 people. Pontiac had the fifth largest black population, with 31,416 people. In 2002 the Michigan city with the highest percentage of black residents was Highland Park, with 93% of its population being black.
caption: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit
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