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HUD PD&R Housing Market Profiles Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, Michigan Quick Facts About Detroit Detroit, Michigan By Diana Villavicencio | As of June 1, 2020 Current sales market conditions: balanced Current apartment market conditions: slightly tight Overview The leisure and hospitality sector has a noteworthy The Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia (hereafter, Detroit) metropolitan effect on the local economy. With the 2017 completion division, along the U.S.-Canada border in southeastern Michigan, of the up-to-22,000-seat and more-than-$860 million is coterminous with Wayne County. Wayne County is home to Little Caesars Arena in the city of Detroit, the Detroit approximately 17 percent of the total population in Michigan and Pistons of the National Basketball Association debuted is the most populous county in the state. The Detroit metropolitan as the fourth professional sports team to play in the division economy had been expanding from 2011 through early metropolitan division. The city of Detroit is also home 2020, mostly because of increasing manufacturing jobs. When to the Detroit Lions of the National Football League, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League, on March 11, 2020, government responses to combat the and the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team. pandemic—including a statewide shelter-in-place order effective The four teams play within one-half mile of each April 1—negatively affected economic conditions in the Detroit other in the downtown entertainment area—The metropolitan division. As a result, the economic expansion ended, District Detroit—which has spurred residential and and net out-migration increased. The sales market and apartment commercial development nearby. market conditions, however, remained balanced and slightly tight, respectively. y As of June 1, 2020, the estimated population of the Detroit metropolitan division was 1.75 million—a decrease of 4,650, or 0.3 percent, since July 2019. During the period, net out-migration grew slightly to 9,050 people, partly due to contracting economic conditions, whereas net natural increase (resident births minus resident deaths) averaged 4,400 people. continued on page 2 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | Office of Policy Development and Research 2 HUD PD&R Housing Market Profiles Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, Michigan As of June 1, 2020 continued from page 1 y From 2015 to 2019, the population declined by an annual y The city of Detroit has been losing population every year since average of 3,875, or 0.2 percent, because relatively strong 1950 when it was the fifth most populated city in the United job growth contributed to slower net out-migration, averaging States at 1.85 million. With an estimated 670,000 residents, the 8,725 people a year, and net natural increase averaged 4,850 city is currently ranked 24th nationally but remains the largest people annually. From 2011 to 2015—a period that included city in Michigan and accounts for nearly 40 percent of the total modest job growth—net out-migration averaged 15,050 people population in the metropolitan division. annually, and net natural increase was relatively high, averaging 5,475 people a year, resulting in population loss averaging 9,575 people, or 0.5 percent, annually. Economic Conditions Following an average increase of 1.2 percent annually in nonfarm y Due to the COVID-19 pandemic effects, job losses in the payroll jobs from 2011 through 2015 in the Detroit metropolitan metropolitan division were highest in the leisure and hospitality division, nonfarm payroll growth accelerated slightly to an average sector, which declined by 32,300 jobs, or 40.5 percent, to growth of 1.4 percent a year from 2015 through 2018. During the 3 47,400 jobs—the lowest number of jobs since before 1990. months ending May 2020, nonfarm payrolls declined 14.7 percent, During the period, the accommodation and food services or by 113,300 jobs, from the same period a year ago to 655,800 industry accounted for nearly 85 percent of those losses in the jobs—down from a year-over-year 0.9-percent gain during the 3 sector, and the arts, entertainment, and recreation industry months ending May 2019. Nonfarm payrolls in Michigan and the accounted for the remainder of those losses. nation declined by 14.3 and 8.2 percent, respectively, during the y The professional and business services and the education and 3 months ending May 2020, compared with the same period a health services sectors—the two largest payroll sectors in the year ago. metropolitan division, accounting for more than one-third of all During the 3 months ending May 2020— nonfarm payrolls combined—contracted by 15,700 and 15,600 jobs, or 12.4 and 11.8 percent, respectively. During the period, y Jobs declined in every nonfarm payroll sector for the first time the transportation and utilities sector decreased by 2,300 jobs, since before 2000 in the Detroit metropolitan division; similarly, or 4.5 percent; at an annual growth rate of 4.8 percent, the jobs declined in every sector in the state of Michigan and sector had been the fastest growing sector in the metropolitan the nation. division from 2011 through 2019. continued on page 3 All 11 sectors in the Detroit metropolitan division lost jobs during the 3 months ending May 2020. 3 Months Ending Year-Over-Year Change May 2019 May 2020 Absolute Percent (Thousands) (Thousands) (Thousands) Total Nonfarm Payrolls 769.1 655.8 -113.3 -14.7 Goods-Producing Sectors 117.3 89.1 -28.2 -24.0 Mining, Logging, & Construction 21.6 16.6 -5.0 -23.1 Manufacturing 95.7 72.5 -23.2 -24.2 Service-Providing Sectors 651.8 566.7 -85.1 -13.1 Wholesale & Retail Trade 97.4 87.4 -10.0 -10.3 Transportation & Utilities 51.4 49.1 -2.3 -4.5 Information 6.7 6.4 -0.3 -4.5 Financial Activities 39.3 37.7 -1.6 -4.1 Professional & Business Services 127.0 111.3 -15.7 -12.4 Education & Health Services 132.0 116.4 -15.6 -11.8 Leisure & Hospitality 79.7 47.4 -32.3 -40.5 Other Services 28.4 23.5 -4.9 -17.3 Government 89.8 87.5 -2.3 -2.6 Unemployment Rate 4.8% 18.7% Note: Numbers may not add to totals due to rounding. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | Office of Policy Development and Research 3 HUD PD&R Housing Market Profiles Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, Michigan As of June 1, 2020 continued from page 2 y The average unemployment rate in the Detroit metropolitan During the 3 months ending May 2020, the rate of division soared to 18.7 percent from 4.8 percent during the job loss in the Detroit metropolitan division was same period a year earlier. The current unemployment rate is greater than the respective rates for the Midwest higher than the 10.6-percent rate for the nation. region and the nation. With 72,500 jobs, or 11 percent of total nonfarm payrolls Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Division during the 3 months ending May 2020, the manufacturing Midwest Region Nation sector is an important part of the Detroit metropolitan division 4.0 economy because of the motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts 2.0 manufacturing industries. By comparison, the manufacturing sector 0.0 -2.0 accounts for nearly 9 percent of nonfarm payrolls in the nation. -4.0 The city of Detroit is known as Motor City because Henry Ford -6.0 modernized automobile production using an assembly line at the -8.0 Ford Motor Company in Detroit in 1913. Currently, the Ford Motor -10.0 Company is the largest employer in the metropolitan division. -12.0 During the 3 months ending May 2020, the manufacturing sector Average) (3-Month Year -14.0 -16.0 lost 23,200 jobs, or 24.2 percent. The reduction in jobs is mostly Percentage Change from Previous from Change Percentage because manufacturing companies temporarily shut down factories to limit the spread of COVID-19. During the 3 months ending May May-2011May-2012May-2013May-2014May-2015May-2016May-2017May-2018May-2019May-2020 2020, domestic automobile production declined to 210,100 from Note: Nonfarm payroll job growth. 654,400 during the previous year and down from the recent high Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics of 1.18 million during the same 3-month period in 2013 (Bureau of Economic Analysis). By comparison, from 2011 through 2019, Largest Employers in the Detroit the manufacturing sector added the most jobs of any sector, up Metropolitan Division an average 2,900 jobs, or 3.6 percent, a year. During the period, Nonfarm Number of Name of Employer jobs in the motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts manufacturing Payroll Sector Employees industries grew by an average of 1,975 jobs, or 5.4 percent, Ford Motor Company Manufacturing 41,000 annually, to 46,950 (Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages). Rock Ventures LLC Financial 17,9 0 0 During 2019, motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts manufacturing Henry Ford Health System Education & Health Services 16,200 jobs were nearly six times more prevalent in the metropolitan Note: Excludes local school districts. division than nationally. Source: Wayne County 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report Sales Market Conditions The home sales market in the Detroit metropolitan division is metropolitan division peaked at 14.8 percent during April 2010, currently balanced, with an estimated vacancy rate of 2.0 percent compared with a peak of 8.4 percent for the nation during the as of June 1, 2020—down from 2.9 percent during April 2010, same month (CoreLogic, Inc.).