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table. That’s the word the demog-
rapher uses to describe Metro
Detroit’s overall Jewish popula-
tion, which stands at 71,750, according
to the 2018 Detroit Jewish Population
Study: A Portrait of the Detroit Jewish
Community, funded by the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
The last study, done in 2005, pegged
the Jewish population at 71,500.
Federation enlisted the services of
Ira Sheskin, the principal architect
and investigator of the 2005 Detroit
Jewish Population Study and its 2010
update. The Population Study survey,
conducted early this year, was given to
1,200 Jewish people called randomly.
More than 340,000 calls were made
during the survey to arrive at the over-
all Jewish population projection.
The Federation provided the JN an
overview of the initial results.
Findings revealed that 83,000 people
lived in 31,500 Jewish households,
up 1,500 from 2005. Of those people,
12,460 were not Jewish.
Metro Detroit has the 26th larg-
est Jewish community in America,
down from No. 21 in 2005, similar in
size to Dallas and Las Vegas. While
80 percent of the Jewish commu-
nity remains in its core area: West
Bloomfield, Bloomfield Hills, Oak
Park, Farmington Hills, Southfield and
Huntington Woods, there has been a
shift away from West Bloomfield and
Farmington Hills toward Huntington
Woods, which is now 65 percent
Jewish.
Despite a perceived increase in the
number of Jewish young adults mov-
ing into the city of Detroit, the number
of Jewish households within the city
decreased by about 1,100 compared to
2005, Sheskin said. “But 27 percent of
the population works in either Detroit
or Dearborn, meaning that population
could be served by lunchtime pro-

gramming,” he said.
About 220 Jewish households are
moving in each year, up slightly from
2005, and about 100 households move
out each year. On a positive note,
according to Sheskin, is that 62 per-
cent of Jews in Metro Detroit were
born and grew up here, making them
more likely to stay. Eighty-one percent
of survey respondents said they were
not planning to move in the coming
year. “There should be no significant
change as a result of migration in the
coming years,” Sheskin said. “But the
population is certainly not going to
grow.”

PORTRAIT OF JEWISH FAMILIES

• There are 13,000 Jewish children
(ages 0-17) living in Metro Detroit,
many in the 15-19 age bracket. “There
are a lot fewer 10- to 14-year-olds,
which will mean an adjustment for
day schools,” Sheskin said.
• The number of children living in
Jewish households is down compared
to 2005, when there were 17,000 chil-
dren.
• About 25,400 people older than
65 live in the area, of which 7,600 are
older than 75. While the number of
older adults is up, fewer older adults
are living alone compared to 2005.
• The number of young adults ages
18-34 is 19,100, up from 9,400 in 2005
— a 103 percent increase.
• More than half (57 percent) of
adults in Jewish households are mar-
ried; 39 percent of Jewish adults are
single, more than half of whom are
under age 35. “In 1989, 61 percent of
Jewish adults under 35 were married.
Today, that number is 17 percent,”
Sheskin said. “This means Jewish
adults are waiting longer to have chil-
dren, having fewer children and join-
ing synagogues later in life.”
• Eighteen percent of married Jews
are intermarried, and 44 percent of the
children in those households are being
raised Jewishly, with an additional 17
percent being raised as part Jewish.
This is an increase from 2005, when
only 31 percent of children in these
households were being raised Jewishly.
• A quarter of all Jewish households
have children younger than 17 at
home; this is down from 2005 while