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Detroit town, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Detroit town is a Census town of 189 people across 1.33 square miles of land, in Lamar County. 42.3 percent of occupied homes are owned.
48 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Detroit
What Detroit is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.33 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land143 plus or minus 67
- County holding the largest share of its areaLamar County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Detroit
How many people live in Detroit
- Population189 plus or minus 89
- Median age34.9 plus or minus 27.0
- Population under 1859 plus or minus 32
- Share under 1831.2 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Population 65 and over41 plus or minus 35
- Share 65 and over21.7 percent plus or minus 15.3
- Households71 plus or minus 40
- Family households39 plus or minus 19
- Share of households that are families54.9 percent plus or minus 40.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Detroit
Income and work in Detroit
- Per capita income$18,976 plus or minus $8,366
- Civilian labor force66 plus or minus 38
- Employed63 plus or minus 36
- Unemployed3 plus or minus 6
- Unemployment rate4.5 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Adults 25 and over127 plus or minus 65
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher67.7 percent plus or minus 45.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.7 percent plus or minus 17.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.2 percent plus or minus 17.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Detroit
Housing in Detroit
- Housing units130 plus or minus 46
- Occupied units71 plus or minus 40
- Vacant units59 plus or minus 27
- Vacancy rate45.4 percent plus or minus 13.2
- Owner occupied30 plus or minus 18
- Renter occupied41 plus or minus 36
- Ownership rate42.3 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Median owner-occupied home value$75,000 plus or minus $50,871
- Median gross rent, monthly$377
- Single family units50 plus or minus 23
- Share single family38.5 percent plus or minus 10.8
- Units in buildings of two or more70 plus or minus 42
- Share in buildings of two or more53.8 percent plus or minus 26.2
- Mobile homes10 plus or minus 8
- Median year structure built1974
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Detroit
How Detroit gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute61 plus or minus 37
- Commuting under 15 minutes6 plus or minus 6
- Share commuting under 15 minutes9.8 percent plus or minus 8.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more28 plus or minus 21
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more45.9 percent plus or minus 19.0
- Drove alone28.6 percent plus or minus 19.5
- Carpooled68.3 percent plus or minus 30.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home3.2 percent plus or minus 4.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lamar County, not Detroit
Lamar County context, not Detroit figures
These are Lamar County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Detroit measurements.
- Establishments in Lamar County243
- Employment at those establishments, Lamar County3,201
- Covered employment, Lamar County3,403
- Average annual pay, Lamar County$50,837
- Average weekly wage, Lamar County$978
- Housing units permitted, Lamar County0
- Of those, single family, Lamar County0
- County product, 2024, Lamar County$473,505,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lamar County4.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lamar County$45,305
Every figure in this section is published for Lamar County as a whole and is not a measurement of Detroit. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Detroit questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Detroit, Alabama?
189, in 71 households. Detroit town covers 1.33 square miles of land, which is 143 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Detroit in?
Lamar County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
Are the county figures on this page Detroit figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lamar County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Detroit.
Is zoning published for Detroit?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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