Taking a Community Sociological Inventory
Taking a Community Sociological Inventory
Pinkey Oliver
Northcentral University
Trends and Current Conditions
The Dearborn community has experienced a transformation in population of the last ten years. This transformation can be due to a number of issues, but it begins with the surrounding cities not just the city of Dearborn. Examining the current trends and conditions of the Dearborn community, it is important to focus on the population and how it is broken down. There are 96,474 people that live in Dearborn, MI and 89.1% are white. Arab Americans fall under white Americans which are not stated on any census. It is very difficult analyze sociological demographics when it is not properly separated by ethnicity. Arab Americans represent a large population of the overall Dearborn population.
Just like in the city of Detroit, Dearborn is experiencing noticeable relocation. This noticeable relocation has caused deterioration in school diversity, and as a result has created a language barrier issue that affects federal funds. The most astounding statistic found in the Dearborn Historical Level Data (which came from a survey conducted by the U.S. Census American Community Survey) was that in the city of Dearborn there are 17,523 individuals that had a bachelor degree or better out of the 97,509 population. This is an astounding statistic because according to the U.S. census bureau states 29% of the population has a bachelor degree or better in Dearborn and only 24% in the state of Michigan. The assumption would be more individuals would have a bachelor degree especially in the city of Dearborn.
Living in the city of Dearborn, the assumption is the median income per household is higher than $46,972, and working forty hours a week. The income per household and the population with a bachelor degree or better has a correlation. Although, U.S. census doesn’t indicate that income was the major issue that has
Pinkey Oliver
Northcentral University
Trends and Current Conditions
The Dearborn community has experienced a transformation in population of the last ten years. This transformation can be due to a number of issues, but it begins with the surrounding cities not just the city of Dearborn. Examining the current trends and conditions of the Dearborn community, it is important to focus on the population and how it is broken down. There are 96,474 people that live in Dearborn, MI and 89.1% are white. Arab Americans fall under white Americans which are not stated on any census. It is very difficult analyze sociological demographics when it is not properly separated by ethnicity. Arab Americans represent a large population of the overall Dearborn population.
Just like in the city of Detroit, Dearborn is experiencing noticeable relocation. This noticeable relocation has caused deterioration in school diversity, and as a result has created a language barrier issue that affects federal funds. The most astounding statistic found in the Dearborn Historical Level Data (which came from a survey conducted by the U.S. Census American Community Survey) was that in the city of Dearborn there are 17,523 individuals that had a bachelor degree or better out of the 97,509 population. This is an astounding statistic because according to the U.S. census bureau states 29% of the population has a bachelor degree or better in Dearborn and only 24% in the state of Michigan. The assumption would be more individuals would have a bachelor degree especially in the city of Dearborn.
Living in the city of Dearborn, the assumption is the median income per household is higher than $46,972, and working forty hours a week. The income per household and the population with a bachelor degree or better has a correlation. Although, U.S. census doesn’t indicate that income was the major issue that has
References: United States Census Bureau. State and County Quick Facts. Retrieved from http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/2621000.html