Amid Detroit's comeback, more than a third of the city's residents experienced poverty in 2024, a rate higher than any the city has seen since 2017, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Detroit's poverty rate was 34.5% last year, up from 31.9% in 2023, while Detroit's median household income increased slightly from $38,080 to $39,209. Detroit had the nation's highest poverty rate in 2023 among big cities, followed by Cleveland. In 2024, it had the highest poverty rate of any city with a population greater than 500,000 people.

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