Dearborn Heights — UN urban centre
Dearborn Heights: 177,423 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,406 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8011; territory: United States (USA). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: 42.3302, -83.3521. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 393,832 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 373,473 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 363,999 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 347,817 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 355,589 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 351,876 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 285,111 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 254,706 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 239,535 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 207,850 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 177,423 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 169,215 | Projection |
| 2035 | 167,211 | Projection |
| 2040 | 163,391 | Projection |
| 2045 | 159,851 | Projection |
| 2050 | 152,975 | Projection |
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