Michigan
Michigan: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · population 10,130,000 (registry) · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Michigan at a glance
Rolled up from the 67 regions inside Michigan on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Population10,051,595
census
Places inside65
38 with a full /local page
Businesses on file164,797
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered174
in the company directory
Who represents them6
places with a /politics page
Property & employers7 · 0
/property and /employers records
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Who leads Michigan, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
Leadership
Economy & households
- Population
- 10,127,884 persons (Census Bureau annual resident population estimate) (2025) ↗
- GDP
- 733,887.1 USD millions, current dollars (BEA nominal state GDP) (2025) ↗
- Unemployment
- 5 % seasonally adjusted (BLS LAUS) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 76,800 USD, current dollars (Census CPS ASEC) (2025) ↗
- Home ownership
- 74 % (Census CPS/HVS homeownership rate) (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 48,100 USD per person with a credit score (NY Fed Consumer Credit Panel via USAFacts; per person, not per household) (2025) ↗
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Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
| City / metro | Price | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit-Warren-Dearborn ↗ | 269,999 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Grand Rapids ↗ | 395,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Lansing-East Lansing ↗ | 240,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Ann Arbor ↗ | 440,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Flint ↗ | 210,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Kalamazoo-Portage ↗ | 317,900 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Michigan (statewide) ↗ | 299,900 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
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Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
| Language | Share | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language other than English (all) ↗ | most often at home (ACS, age 5+): about 1 in 9 people age 5+ (about 1,060,000 people) | 2024 | |
| Spanish ↗ | 30.8% | % of people age 5+ who speak a non-English language at home (ACS) | 2024 |
| Arabic ↗ | 12.9% — Michigan's share of all US Arabic speakers age 5+ (ACS) | 2024 |
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Largest companies in Michigan
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ford Motor Co (Dearborn) ↗ | revenue | 187.27 USD billions, FY2025 (10-K XBRL: RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax) | 2025 |
| General Motors (Detroit) ↗ | revenue | 185.02 USD billions, FY2025 (10-K XBRL: Revenues) | 2025 |
| Dow Inc. (Midland) ↗ | revenue | 39.97 USD billions, FY2025 (10-K XBRL: Revenues) | 2025 |
| Penske Automotive Group (Bloomfield Hills) ↗ | revenue | 31.81 USD billions, FY2025 (10-K XBRL) | 2025 |
| Stryker (Portage) ↗ | revenue | 25.12 USD billions, FY2025 (10-K XBRL: Revenues) | 2025 |
| Lear (Southfield) ↗ | revenue | 23.26 USD billions, FY2025 (10-K XBRL) | 2025 |
| DTE Energy (Detroit) ↗ | revenue | 15.81 USD billions, FY2025 (10-K XBRL: RegulatedAndUnregulatedOperatingRevenue) | 2025 |
| Whirlpool (Benton Harbor) ↗ | revenue | 15.52 USD billions, FY2025 (10-K XBRL) | 2025 |
| BorgWarner (Auburn Hills) ↗ | revenue | 14.32 USD billions, FY2025 (10-K XBRL: Revenues) | 2025 |
| CMS Energy (Jackson) ↗ | revenue | 8.54 USD billions, FY2025 (10-K XBRL: Revenues) | 2025 |
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Worth knowing
- 2026-11Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) won the Nov 3, 2026 governor's race with 2,611,110 votes (54.57%) to John James (R) 2,091,828 (43.72%); her running mate Winnie Brinks is lieutenant governor-elect. Gov. Whitmer was term-limited. ↗
- 2026-09Michigan's unemployment rate was 5.0% (seasonally adjusted) in September 2026. ↗
- 2025Per capita personal income in Michigan was $67,245 in 2025 (BEA). ↗
- 2024Michigan holds 12.9% of all US Arabic speakers, more than its share of speakers of any other language; non-English home speakers rose 14.7% from 2018 to 2024. ↗
- 2025Michigan residents with a credit score owed $48,100 on average in 2025, $15,200 less than the average American; mortgages made up about 63.7% of household debt. ↗
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Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
Median household income$71,149
Median rent$1,084/mo
Immigrants7%
Renters27.1%
Aged 65+18.2%
Unemployment5.8%
Low income13.1%
Speak a language other than English9.6%
Languages spoken at home (other than English)
- Spanish287,431 · 2.9%
- Arabic167,438 · 1.7%
- Other Indo-European languages164,992 · 1.6%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages70,013 · 0.7%
- Other and unspecified languages58,889 · 0.6%
- Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages53,397 · 0.5%
- German or other West Germanic languages46,282 · 0.5%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)45,974 · 0.5%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun22,630 · 0.2%
- Korean16,954 · 0.2%
- Vietnamese15,526 · 0.2%
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)15,037 · 0.1%
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Largest places in Michigan
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Detroit, Michigan full639,111
- 2.Grand Rapids, Michigan full198,917
- 3.Warren, Michigan full139,387
- 4.Sterling Heights, Michigan full134,346
- 5.Ann Arbor, Michigan full123,851
- 6.Lansing & East Lansing, Michigan full112,644
- 7.Dearborn, Michigan full109,976
- 8.Livonia, Michigan full95,535
- 9.Troy, Michigan full87,294
- 10.Farmington Hills, Michigan83,986
- 11.Flint, Michigan full81,252
- 12.Kalamazoo, Michigan full73,598
- 13.Pontiac, Michigan full61,606
- 14.St. Clair Shores, Michigan full58,874
- 15.Battle Creek, Michigan full52,731
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Inside Michigan
56 regions have Michigan as their parent.
- Alpena, Michigan
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Auburn Hills, Michigan
- Battle Creek, Michigan
- Bay City, Michigan
- Birch Run, Michigan
- Boyne, Michigan region
- Brighton, Michigan
- Cadillac, Michigan
- Cheboygan, Michigan
- Dearborn, Michigan
- Detroit, Michigan
- Escanaba, Michigan
- Farmington Hills, Michigan
- Flint, Michigan
- Frankenmuth, Michigan
- Gaylord, Michigan
- Grand Haven, Michigan
- Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Holland, Michigan
- Iron Mountain-Kingsford, Michigan
- Ironwood, Michigan
- Jackson, Michigan
- Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Lake City, Michigan
- Lansing & East Lansing, Michigan
- Lapeer, MI
- Leland, Michigan
- Livonia, Michigan
- Ludington, Michigan
- Manistee, Michigan
- Manistique, Michigan
- Marine City, Michigan
- Marquette, Michigan
- Marysville, Michigan
- Michigan City, Indiana
- Midland, Michigan
- Monroe, Michigan
- Munising, Upper Michigan
- Muskegon, Michigan
- Owosso, Michigan
- Pontiac, Michigan
- Port Huron, Michigan
- Saginaw, Michigan
- Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
- St. Clair Shores, Michigan
- St. Clair, Michigan
- St. Joseph, Michigan
- Sterling Heights, Michigan
- Tawas, Michigan town
- Torch Lake region
- Traverse City, Michigan
- Troy, Michigan
- Walloon Lake, Michigan town
- Warren, Michigan
- Ypsilanti, Michigan
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Companies based in Michigan
1 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here, and 174 across Michigan and the places inside it — search them all below.
| Company | Industry | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Vinckier Foods |
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Michigan are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.