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Detroit's population falls 25%, Bing wants recount
By: Bill O'ReillyMarch 23, 2011
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Ron French, Leonard N. Fleming and Mike Wilkinson / The Detroit News: Detroit lost a quarter of its population in the past decade, a historic exodus creating enormous economic, logistical and political headaches for an already reeling city.

Census figures released Tuesday pegged Motown's population at 713,777 - its lowest population in a century.

Once the fourth-largest city in the United States, Detroit now is 18th, below Columbus, Ohio, and just ahead of Memphis. The 237,493 who left Michigan's largest city would themselves make up the state's second-largest city. The loss alone is comparable to the populations of medium-sized cities such as Orlando, Fla., and Madison, Wis.
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