Residents with income below the poverty level in 2007:
| This city: |  38.3% | | Whole state: |  10.5% |
Residents with income below 50% of the poverty level in 2007:
| This city: | 21.0% | | Whole state: | 4.8% |
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Highland Park, MI
People in group quarters in Highland Park
- 356 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 220 people in nursing homes
- 186 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 60 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 41 people in other group homes
- 13 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 7 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
Highland Park compared to Michigan state average:
- Median household income below state average.
- Median house value below state average.
- Unemployed percentage above state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly above state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage below state average.
- Renting percentage above state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher significantly below state average.
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Banks with branches in Highland Park (2009 data):
- RBS Citizens, National Association: Highland Park at 12380 Woodward Avenue, branch established on 1934-05-01. Info updated 2007-09-19: Bank assets: $129,726.0 mil, Deposits: $73,811.7 mil, headquarters in Providence, RI, negative income in the last year, 1175 total offices, Holding Company: Royal Bank Of Scotland Group Plc, The
School Enrollment by Level of School
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2004 Presidential Election results in Wayne County Michigan:
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Most commonly used house heating fuel:
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- Utility gas (85%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
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Neighborhoods in Highland Park:
Religon statistics for Highland Park
| Name | Catholic Church | Muslim Estimate | Lutheran Church | American Baptist Churches in the USA | United Methodist Church |
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| Adherents | 58.0% | 6.0% | 3.9% | 3.4% | 2.7% |
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| Congregations | 19.1% | 2.9% | 6.0% | 3.5% | 6.4% |
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| Name | Presbyterian Church (USA) | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | Assemblies of God | Non-Charismatic Churches Independent | Other religions |
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| Adherents | 2.6% | 2.6% | 2.1% | 1.5% | 17.3% |
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| Congregations | 4.5% | 5.1% | 4.6% | 1.5% | 46.4% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center.
Tables represent county-level data.
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Local government employment and payroll (March 2007)
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| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Financial Administration |
7 | $26,060 | $44,674 | 0 | $0 |
| Other Government Administration |
13 | $59,044 | $54,502 | 0 | $0 |
| Police Protection - Officers |
20 | $65,438 | $39,263 | 13 | $5,604 |
| Police - Other |
0 | $0 | | 40 | $10,271 |
| Housing and Community Development(Local) |
7 | $21,540 | $36,926 | 6 | $5,531 |
| Water Supply |
7 | $18,146 | $31,107 | 0 | $0 |
| Other and Unallocable |
27 | $80,605 | $35,824 | 0 | $0 |
| Totals for Government |
81 | $270,833 | $40,123 | 59 | $21,406 |
Highland Park government finances in 2006:
- Charges - Sewerage: $3,079,000
Housing and Community Development: $458,000
All Other: $0
- Current Operations - Police Protection: $4,428,000
General - Other: $3,544,000
Sewerage: $2,337,000
Water Utilities: $2,157,000
General Public Buildings: $1,509,000
Housing and Community Development: $1,330,000
Regular Highways: $1,078,000
Financial Administration: $882,000
Judicial and Legal Services: $586,000
Local Fire Protection: $486,000
Solid Waste Management: $448,000
Central Staff Services: $405,000
Health - Other: $274,000
Parks and Recreation: $113,000
Protective Inspection and Regulation, NEC: $69,000
- DISCONTINUED for 2005 (Formerly: Long Term Debt Outstanding Nonguaranteed - Industrial Revenue): $41,720,000
- Federal Intergovernmental - Housing and Community Development: $846,000
All Other: $743,000
- General - Interest on Debt: $1,347,000
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding - Public Debt for Private Purpose: $43,385,000
- Long Term Debt Retired Nonguaranteed - Public Debt for Private Purpose: $1,665,000
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified Public Purpose: $830,000
- Miscellaneous - Interest Earnings: $1,881,000
Rents: $1,071,000
Fines and Forfeits: $712,000
General Revenue, NEC: $172,000
Sale of Property: $24,000
- NEW for 2005 - Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding - Unspecified Public Purpose: $27,140,000
Long Term Debt Outstanding Unspecified Public Purpose: $26,310,000
- Other Funds - Cash and Securities: $3,913,000
- Revenue - Water Utilities: $2,842,000
- Short Term Debt Outstanding - End of Fiscal Year: $1,250,000
Beginning: $1,250,000
- Sinking Funds - Cash and Securities: $43,104,000
- State Intergovernmental - General Local Government Support: $4,017,000
Highways: $1,025,000
- Tax - Property: $4,114,000
Individual Income: $2,306,000
Occupation and Business License, NEC: $25,000
Other License: $6,000
- Total Salaries and Wages: $3,206,000
- Water Utilities - Interest on Debt: $133,000
3.29% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($40,925 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 3.29% | | Michigan average: | 5.24% |
0.08% of residents moved from foreign countries ($748 average AGI)| Wayne County: | 0.08% | | Michigan average: | 0.10% |
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
4.98% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($44,717 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 4.98% | | Michigan average: | 5.98% |
0.05% of residents moved to foreign countries ($477 average AGI)| Wayne County: | 0.05% | | Michigan average: | 0.05% |
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Highland Park:
- WWJ (950 AM; 50 kW; DETROIT, MI; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING OPERATIONS, INC.)
- WQBH (1400 AM; 1 kW; DETROIT, MI; Owner: QUEEN'S BROADCASTING CORP.)
- WXYT (1270 AM; 50 kW; DETROIT, MI; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING CORP. OF DETROIT)
- WJR (760 AM; 50 kW; DETROIT, MI; Owner: ABC, INC.)
- WDFN (1130 AM; 50 kW; DETROIT, MI; Owner: AMFM RADIO LICENSES, L.L.C.)
- WCHB (1200 AM; 50 kW; TAYLOR, MI; Owner: RADIO ONE OF DETROIT, LLC)
- WFDF (910 AM; 50 kW; FLINT, MI; Owner: ABC, INC.)
- WEXL (1340 AM; 1 kW; ROYAL OAK, MI; Owner: WMUZ RADIO, INC.)
- WXDX (1310 AM; 5 kW; DEARBORN, MI; Owner: AMFM RADIO LICENSES, L.L.C.)
- WUFL (1030 AM; daytime; 5 kW; STERLING HEIGHTS, MI; Owner: FAMILY LIFE BROADCASTING SYSTEM)
- WDEO (990 AM; 9 kW; YPSILANTI, MI; Owner: WORD BROADCASTERS, INC.)
- WOAP (1080 AM; 50 kW; OWOSSO, MI)
- WTKA (1050 AM; 10 kW; ANN ARBOR, MI; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
Strongest FM radio stations in Highland Park:
- WJLB (97.9 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: AMFM RADIO LICENSES, L.L.C.)
- WHPR-FM (88.1 FM; HIGHLAND PARK, MI; Owner: R.J.'S LATE NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION)
- WDTR-FM (90.9 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: BOARD OF EDUCATION, CITY OF DETROIT)
- WNIC (100.3 FM; DEARBORN, MI; Owner: AMFM RADIO LICENSES, L.L.C.)
- WVMV (98.7 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING OPERATIONS, INC.)
- WMGC-FM (105.1 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: GREATER BOSTON RADIO, INC.)
- WCSX (94.7 FM; BIRMINGHAM, MI; Owner: GREATER BOSTON RADIO, INC.)
- WDVD (96.3 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: ABC, INC.)
- WDET-FM (101.9 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY)
- WMXD (92.3 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: AMFM RADIO LICENSES, L.L.C.)
- WGPR (107.5 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: WGPR, INC.)
- WDTW (106.7 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: AMFM RADIO LICENSES, L.L.C.)
- WYCD (99.5 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN)
- WKRK-FM (97.1 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING OPERATIONS, INC.)
- WDTJ (105.9 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: RADIO ONE OF DETROIT, LLC)
- WRIF (101.1 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: GREATER BOSTON RADIO, INC.)
- WDRQ (93.1 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: ABC, INC.)
- WOMC (104.3 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN)
- WKQI (95.5 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: AMFM RADIO LICENSES, L.L.C.)
- WMUZ (103.5 FM; DETROIT, MI; Owner: WMUZ RADIO, INC.)
TV broadcast stations around Highland Park:
- WWJ-TV (Channel 62; DETROIT, MI; Owner: CBS BROADCASTING INC.)
- WDWB (Channel 20; DETROIT, MI; Owner: WXON LICENSE, INC.)
- WTVS (Channel 56; DETROIT, MI; Owner: DETROIT EDUC. TV FOUNDATION)
- WBXD-CA (Channel 5; DETROIT, MI; Owner: THE BOX WORLDWIDE LLC)
- WJBK (Channel 2; DETROIT, MI; Owner: FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, INC.)
- WXYZ-TV (Channel 7; DETROIT, MI; Owner: CHANNEL 7 OF DETROIT, INC.)
- WDIV-TV (Channel 4; DETROIT, MI; Owner: POST-NEWSWEEK STATIONS, MICHIGAN, INC.)
- WLPC-LP (Channel 26; DETROIT, MI; Owner: GLENN R. AND KARIN A. PLUMMER)
- WDWO-CA (Channel 18; DETROIT, MI; Owner: TCT OF MICHIGAN, INC.)
- WKBD (Channel 50; DETROIT, MI; Owner: VIACOM STATIONS GROUP OF DETROIT INC.)
- W33BY (Channel 68; DETROIT, MI; Owner: HIGHLAND PARK BROADCASTING, L.P.)
- WADL (Channel 38; MOUNT CLEMENS, MI; Owner: ADELL BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
- W48AV (Channel 48; DETROIT, MI; Owner: PAXSON COMMUNICATIONS LICENSE COMPANY, LLC)
- WNWO-TV (Channel 24; TOLEDO, OH; Owner: RAYCOM NATIONAL, INC.)
- WFUM (Channel 28; FLINT, MI; Owner: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN)
- W66BV (Channel 66; DETROIT, MI; Owner: TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK)
Fatal accident count (per 100,000 population)
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See more detailed statistics of Highland Park fatal accidents for 1975 - 2007 here
National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Statistics
Number of bridges: 15
Total length: 99 meters (325ft)
Total average daily traffic: 640,808
Total average daily truck traffic: 13,884
New bridges - Historical Statistics
- 1940-1949: 1
- 1950-1959: 0
- 1960-1969: 0
- 1970-1979: 4
- 1980-1989: 0
- 1990-1999: 10
See Full National Bridge Inventory Statistics for Highland Park, MI
FCC Registered Commercial Land Mobile Towers: 1- 43 Oakman Blvd., Type: Tower, Structure height: 44 m, Overall height: 49 m, Call Sign: WPTM243, Licensee ID: L00003484
856.987 MHz, 857.062 MHz, 857.087 MHz, 857.112 MHz, 857.162 MHz, 857.212 MHz, 857.237 MHz, 857.362 MHz, 857.462 MHz, 857.487 MHz... (+269 more)
Grant Date: 10/30/2001, Expiration Date: 10/30/2011, Certifier: Robin J Glenny
Registrant: Nextel License Holdings 4, Inc., 2001 Edmund Halley Drive, Reston, VA 20191, Phone: (703) 433-4000, Fax: (703) 433-4035, Email:
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 4- Police Dept 25 Gerald, Call Sign: KQA329
Assigned Frequencies : 155.370 MHz
Grant Date: 04/03/1997, Expiration Date: 06/15/2002, Cancelation Date: 10/20/2002
Registrant: City Of Highland Park, 25 Gerald, Highland Park, MI 48203 - 12000 Lynn Townsend Dr, Call Sign: KCL662, Licensee ID: L00002945
Assigned Frequencies : 151.835 MHz
Grant Date: 02/04/1997, Expiration Date: 02/04/2012
Registrant: Chrysler LLC - 12800 Lynn Townsend Dr, Call Sign: KLJ499, Licensee ID: L00002945
Assigned Frequencies : 462.200 MHz
Grant Date: 01/28/2003, Expiration Date: 01/21/2013
Registrant: Chrysler LLC - 7 Pasadena, Call Sign: KWH722, Licensee ID: L01058611
Assigned Frequencies : 152.420 MHz
Grant Date: 10/04/2005, Expiration Date: 08/27/2015
Registrant: Metropolitan Cab Company, 16525 Woodward, Highland Park, MI 48203, Phone: (313) 869-9100
FCC Registered Microwave Towers: 4- LAND, 100 Ft E Of 12000 Oakland Avenue, Overall height: 39.6 m, Call Sign: WMJ435, Licensee ID: L00045531
Assigned Frequencies : 10618.7 MHz
Grant Date: 04/23/1996, Expiration Date: 02/01/2001, Cancelation Date: 05/06/2001, Certifier: Joseph M Sandri Jr.
Registrant: Winstar Wireless Fiber Corp., 1615 L Street, Nw., Suite 1260, Washington, DC 20036, Phone: (202) 367-7600, Fax: (202) 659-1931, Email:
- 15851 Woodward Ave, Structure height: 9.1 m, Overall height: 10.4 m, Call Sign: WPNJ968
Assigned Frequencies : 12800.0 MHz
Grant Date: 03/19/1998, Expiration Date: 10/01/2013
Registrant: Phone: (303) 798-1700 - HIGHLANDPA, 12000 Oakland Avenue, Overall height: 42.1 m, Call Sign: WLL830
Assigned Frequencies : 17720.0 MHz, 11265.0 MHz
Grant Date: 06/14/1990, Expiration Date: 04/30/1998, Cancelation Date: 04/30/1998
Registrant: Mci Worldcom Network Services Inc, 2270 Lakeside Dr, Richardson, TX 75082 - HPARK, 12000 Oakland, Overall height: 27.1 m, Call Sign: WLV412
Assigned Frequencies : 10616.2 MHz
Grant Date: 05/07/1991, Expiration Date: 02/01/2001, Cancelation Date: 12/22/2002
Registrant: Local Area Telecommunications Inc, 17 Battery Place Suite 1200, New York, NY 10004-1256
FCC Registered Paging Towers: 1- 12800 Oakland Avenue, Call Sign: KQK771
Assigned Frequencies : 454.025 MHz
Grant Date: 05/11/1999, Expiration Date: 04/01/2009, Cancelation Date: 11/12/2004, Certifier: Paul H Kuzia
Registrant: Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP, 2300 N Street, N.W., 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20037, Phone: (202) 783-4141, Fax: (202) 783-5851, Email:
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 5- Call Sign: K8WRA, Previous Call Sign: , Licensee ID: L01284498
Grant Date: 07/28/2007, Expiration Date: 09/03/2017
Registrant: Kenneth D Leonard, 71 Tyler, Highland Park, MI 48203-3634 - Call Sign: KB8UKJ, Previous Call Sign: , Licensee ID: L00963197
Grant Date: 01/11/2005, Expiration Date: 01/11/2015
Registrant: Michael Seunagal, Highland Park, MI 48203 - Call Sign: KC8KIQ, Previous Call Sign:
Grant Date: 06/04/1998, Expiration Date: 06/04/2008
Registrant: William Jewell, 33 Labelle 1016, Highland Park, MI 48203-3678 - Call Sign: N8FWD, Previous Call Sign:
Grant Date: 12/14/1994, Expiration Date: 12/14/2004, Cancelation Date: 12/15/2006
Registrant: Harold N Walton, 250 Louise, Highland Park, MI 48203 - Call Sign: N8JUK, Previous Call Sign:
Grant Date: 06/12/1998, Expiration Date: 06/12/2008
Registrant: Jean W Leonard, 71 Tyler, Highland Park, MI 48203
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:- Fire: 184
- Hazardous Condition: 45
- Service Call: 1
Incident types - Highland Park
See Full 2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Statistics for Highland Park, MI
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