Good Northend-Central Neighborhoods

A Basic Community Profile: North End

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North End is a community of 17,563 residents in central Detroit.  It bordered on the East by the Chrysler Freeway (I-75) and Hamtramck along Greeley Street.  It is bordered on the West by the John C. Lodge Freeway (M-10).  The Northern border is also the border of the city of Highland Park, between Webb/Woodland and Tuxedo/Tennyson Streets.  The Southern border is the Edsel Ford Freeway (I-94).  The New Center commercial district is contained within the community.  North End is situated just north of the Midtown District and Wayne State University.  Further south is downtown Detroit.

North End is home to an estimated 4,592 children and youth (under 18).

I. Overall Population Statistics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 According to the 2000 census, the population of the North End area is 17,563, a decrease of 16% from the 1990 census figure of 20,798.  In comparison, the population of the State of Michigan increased seven percent during the same period and the population of Detroit as a whole decreased by seven percent.  The population density is 5,913.5 people per square mile compared to 6,855 per square mile for Detroit, and 3,356 per square mile for Wayne County. 

North End has an African American population of 93.7%, a White population of 3.8%, and a multiracial population of 1.4%[1].  North End has 26.1% of the population under the age of 18, compared to a national average of 25.6% (Detroit 31.1%; State 26.1%).  Seniors (65+) make up 14.6% of the population (Detroit 10.5%; State 12.3%; USA 12.4%).  The percentage of seniors in North End has decreased from 18.8% in 1990.

North End has an average percentage of single parent households at 16.8%, compared to a national average of 9.1% for the same period (Detroit 21.5%; State 9.4%).

II. Income and Poverty[2]

The average household income rate for North End in 2000 was $33,360, which is under the average household income in Detroit of $40,837 (State $57,400; USA $56,644). 

The level of poverty in the community at 31.2% is over twice the rate of poverty nationally (Detroit 26.1%; State 10.5%; USA 12.4%).  Children living in poverty make up 37.6% of the population compared to 13.9% statewide (Detroit 34.8%; State 13.9%; USA 16.6%). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The unemployment rate in 2000 was 18.4% (Detroit 13.8%; State 5.8%; USA 5.8%).  In addition, 13.5% of the population receives public income assistance (Detroit 11.4%; State 3.6%; USA 3.4%).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Occupations in North End are evenly divided between management (25.5%), personal care and service (22.7%), sales (24.8%) and production jobs (20.6%).  Additionally 6.3% of jobs are in construction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 III. Education

The number of people in the North End community without a high school diploma is 32.7%, which is above the Detroit average of 30.4% (State 16.6%; USA 19.6%).  The percent of persons 25 years old and over who have a bachelors or graduate/professional degree is 12.3% compared to 24.4% for the national average (Detroit 11%; State 21.8%; USA 24.4%).

IV. Health

Health statistics are provided by the City of Detroit’s Health and Wellness Promotion department for 2004 and are grouped by planning cluster.  North End is in planning cluster #4, but the planning cluster represents a larger area.  Further data is provided by Detroit Kids Data (http://www.detroitkidsdata.org/).  Detroit Kids Data shows health statistics by zip code areas 48202 and 48211.  These zip code areas also are for an area that is larger than the North End region and are different from the Cluster #4 area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Births

The Birth rate in the cluster #4 area (2004) is relatively low at 11.8 per 1,000 total population as compared to 14.3 per 1,000 for Detroit.  The rate for Wayne County in 2004 was similar to Detroit at 14 births per 1,000 total population, which was the same as the national rate.  For Michigan, the rate was 12.8 births per 1,000 people in 2004.

For the zip code areas 48202 and 48211, the number of births to teens was reported as 17.8% of all births (26.8% for Detroit), and the number of those births to teens that were repeat teen births were 25.9% (23.4% for Detroit)[3].  The percentage of births (of out all births) to unmarried mothers was 68.9% (69.7% for Detroit) and the percentage of new mothers with less than 12 years of education was 37.2% (Detroit 34.6%).  The percentage of preterm and low birth weight babies was 15.6% (Detroit 15.9%) and 14.8% (Detroit 13.4%) respectively.  Women who received no or late prenatal care made up 12.3% of the total (8.3% for Detroit).  This data represents an average of the years 2002-2004. 

Infant Mortality

The rate of infant mortality in the cluster #4 area (2004) is high at 21.6 infant deaths per 1,000 live births compared to 15.5 deaths per 1,000 live births for Detroit.  In 2004, the rate for infant mortality was 7.6 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in Michigan and 10.6 deaths per 1,000 births for Wayne County.  Nationally, the infant mortality rate for 2004 was 6.79 infant deaths per 1,000 live births.

           

Lead Poisoning

Elevated blood levels were found in 11.9% of the 36.7% of all children in the zip code areas 48202 and 48211 ages 0-5 who were tested for lead (Detroit 6.2%).  This data represents an average for the years 2005-2006.

 

Hospitalization

The rate of preventable hospitalization for asthma in zip codes areas 48202 and 48211 is the highest in Detroit at 103.2 cases per 10,000 residents.  The rate of hospital use for children between the ages of 5 and 17 are the highest in Detroit at 312.0 per 10,000 for children 5-12 and 599.8 per 10,000 for children 13-17.

Eight out of the ten census tracts in the North End area have been classified as “Medically Underserved Areas” also known as MUAs.  MUA status is determined by the “ratio of primary medical care physicians per 1,000 population, infant mortality rate, percentage of the population with incomes below the poverty level, and percentage of the population age 65 or over.  The value of each of these variables for the service area is converted to a weighted value, according to established criteria.”

V. Housing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The total number of housing units in North End is 8,519 – down about 2,067 units from 1990.  91.7% of all homes were built before 1970.  Most housing units are small to large multi-unit housing.  Large housing structures with 20 or more units make up over a quarter of all housing (26.4%).  Average home values are high for the area at around $97,627 compared to about $70,000 for Detroit and approximately $160,000 nationally. 

Overall home ownership rate is low at 35.7% compared to 54.9% in Detroit and 66.2% nationally (State 73.8%), but also slightly from 1990 rates (31.3%).  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The overall vacancy rate is high at 18.3% compared to Detroit 10.3%, Wayne county 7%, Michigan 10.6% or nationally 9%.

VI. Community Assets and Resources

Public Schools

·         Fairbanks Elementary School[4]

·         Barsamian Preparatory Center

·         Crosman High School[5]

·         Foreign Language Immersion

·         Sherrard Elementary School[6]

·         Northern High School[7]

·         Boykin Continuing Ed. Center

·         Loving Elementary School

Private and Charter Schools

·         Ross Hill Junior Academy

·         East Catholic High School

Parks and Recreation

·         Delores Bennett Playground

·         Robert L. Bradby Sr. Recreation Center

·         Minerva Maiullo Park

·         Voigt Park

Churches

·         Greater New Mt. Moriah Baptist

·         Greater Phillips Temple Apostolic

·         Second Mt. Zion of the Apostolic Faith

·         St. John Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

·         Cameron Avenue Church of Christ

·         Third Church of Christ, Scientist

·         Full Gospel Tabernacle COGIC

·         North End COGIC

·         People's Community Church

·         St. Matthew and St. Joseph Episcopal Church

·         Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

·         Christ Missionary Baptist

·         Grace Fellowship Missionary Baptist

·         St. John the Great Missionary Baptist

·         Jamiyatul Nasrul Ilm Mosque

·         St. Philip Lutheran Church

·         Cyrene Temple Baptist

·         Greater Ephesian Baptist

·         Little Rock Baptist

·         Mt. Olive Baptist

·         Nazarene Baptist

·         New Shiloh Baptist          

·         Oakland Baptist

·         Mt. Olive Primitive Baptist

·         Greater New Mt. Moriah Baptist

·         Blessed Sacrament Cathedral Catholic Church

·         Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church

·         Metropolitan United Methodist Church

·         Abyssinia Interdenominational Church

·         Alpha and Omega Spiritualist Church

·         Christ Missionary Baptist

·         Christian Love Tabernacle of Holiness

·         Lighthouse Cathedral

·         The Word Made Alive Evangelistic Ministries

Block Clubs

·         Alger 500-600 Block Club

·         Alger Ave. Block Club 2

·         Atkinson Avenue Progressive Association.

·         Atkinson Block Club

·         Blaine St. Block Club

·         Burlingame-Lawrence Block Club

·         Burlingame-Webb-Lawrence Neighborhood Association

·         Calvert Imp. Block Club

·         Chicago Block Club

·         Chicago Blvd. Block Club

·         Englewood-Woodland Block Club 200-300

·         Hague 100 Block Club

·         Hague 500-600 Block Club

·         Harmon Block Club #2

·         Holbrook Block Club

·         Holbrook Block Club

·         Lawrence 76 Block Club

·         Leicester-Woodward Block Club

·         Longfellow Block Club

·         Longfellow Block Club

·         Melbourne 500-600 Block Club

·         Mt. Vernon Block Club

·         North End Taxpayers Business Community

·         Pingree Block Club

·         Taylor 50-900 Block Club

·         Trowbridoe Improvement Association

·         Westminster Improvement Association

·         Woodland Block Club

·         Wooland Block Club

·         WWS Block Club

·         Cameron & Goodwin Block Club

·         Cardoni Block Club

·         East Philadelphia Block Club 900-1000

·         King St. Block Club

·         Lynn & Caniff Busy Bee Block Club

·         Melrose Block Club

·         Melrose Block Club 7500

·         Mt. Vernon Improvement Club

Police Stations

·         Central District Headquarters (located at 4747 Woodward Ave)

Fire Departments

·         Engine 17 Ladder 7 (located at 6100 Second Street)

·         Engine 35 (located at 111 Kenilworth)