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City Council Elections by District

Current Information

City Council passed Option 3 as the official City Council District Map on February 16, 2012. Council also changed the District numbering labels to new numbers. D3 has produced for free a snapshot of the current Districts.

Data Driven Detroit’s profile of current Council districts is available to download.

Approved Detroit City Council Districts

Download the geography file for the New Districts from the Detroit Data Collaborative website.

Archived Information

This following is an archive of the work that D3 and others performed before the Council vote on February 16, 2012.

Currently, Detroit City Council members are elected at-large. However, the Detroit Charter (also see DetCharter.com) has been modified to require districts, and new apportionment of City Council seats needs to take place. Data Driven Detroit is informing the process with demographic data and analysis; see our Building a Better District Map article. We were not involved in drawing the district lines for the 4 official Options, that lies with City Council and City Planning Commission Staff. We are supporting the public process with pertinent data, mapping, analysis, this resource webpage and a newsletter article. We feel strongly that neighborhoods, communities, and place-based initiatives should not be adversely divided by political boundaries (see our newsletter article.) Thus, D3 has created an Option 5 which attempts to hold harmless neighborhoods from the legal requirements process (equal population, compactness and contiguity). Its guides are major streets, freeways and rail lines.

View the Options Interactively

D3′s Option Five with Precincts – Option 5p

D3 has submitted a “new” map to City Council – Option 5p – the precinct compliant plan. It is unfortunate, but due to legal shortsightedness and a bureaucratic process, we have slightly modified our proposed neighborhood centric map from Census block lines to Department of Elections’ proposed precincts. Our intent of protecting neighborhoods has not changed, but some of the boundaries have moved to accommodate precinct lines.

Option 5p – Population Report Download

Option 5p – Compactness Report Download

Option 5p – Easy Print Map Download

Option 5p – Map Download

D3 Analysis of the Five Options

Neighborhoods (Cityscape) and proposed district boundaries (PDF with Layers)
Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Option 5

Neighborhoods (Cityscape) and proposed district boundaries with Major Roads & Freeways (PDF with Layers)
Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Option 5

Options 1 through 5 as single maps (for printing)
Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Option 5

Data Matrix of Population and Deviation Analysis for all 5 Options PDF XLS

Compactness Matrix of 5 Tests for Compactness for all 5 Options PDF XLS

Graph Reports (PDF) Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Option 5

Data Summary PL File: Race, Hispanic, Voting Age, and Housing for all 5 Options XLS

Data Summary ACS File: Income, Education, Poverty for all 5 Options

— Disclaimer: This is an approximation analysis from Census Block Group data whose lines do not follow the Options Districts. XLS

Incumbent City Council Members locations (August, 2011) PDF

Detroit Historic Districts – List with Option that selects them PDF Historic Link

Detroit Neighborhood Map PDF CityScape Link Wiki Link

Detroit Public and Private Investment Program Areas PDF (with Layers)

Detroit Community Development Organizations (CDOs) – from CDAD Draft (July, 2011) PDF

Master Plan “Neighborhoods” and Neighborhoods (Cityscape) boundaries PDF (with Layers) with Roads

Detroit Election Precincts PDF (with Layers) GIS_SHP

All 5 Options in GIS shape files GIS_SHP

Other Relevant Maps

Dot Maps for Race and Ancestry

Population by Race

Detroit
- All Races
- Minority (Groups less than the Majority Group: Hispanic, Asian, & White) Maps with District Lines and Minority Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4
- Single Maps by Race: Hispanic Black Asian White

Tri-County (Wayne, Oakland, Macomb)

All Races (large file size): All Minority (Groups less than the Majority Group: Black, Hispanic, & Asian)
Single Maps by Race: Hispanic Black Asian White

Population by Ancestry

Detroit
- Single Ancestry Maps: Asian Indian Bangladeshi Central American Chinese Filipino Korean Mexican Pakistani Puerto Rican

City Government Maps

January 23, 2012 Maps from City Council website created by City Planning Commission Staff

Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4

January 22, 2012 PDF Preliminary Draft Maps

January 20, 2012 PDF Preliminary Draft Maps from City published in Riley Article

Maps of the Four Official Options

The following maps are from the Detroit Free Press based on the January 23, 2012 City Planning Commission’s 4 maps presented to City Council

Option 1 Option 2

Option 3 Option 4

Other Relevant Maps

August, 2010 Large City Map of Suggested Districts Blank Map to design your own Districts Previous work by Rochelle Riley (in collaboration from Vince Keenan and Kurt Metzger) is re-published here with permission from the Free Press.

May, 2011 Wayne County Apportionment Commission – D3 was the Technical Consultant for the Commission. There are County wide maps and data here under Staff Plans.

Download the D3 Apportionment Map Packets:

1) State Congressional Plan 2) MCRC Congressional Plan 3) Michigan Senate Plan 4) Michigan House Plan

City Government Documents

February 15, 2012 Law Department – Memo – Whether a Map Created By Data Driven Detroit to Apportion the City into Council Districts Complies with State and Federal Law (privilege has been waived by Council) Text Doc

February 15, 2012 City Planning Commission – Memo – “Fifth” District Map submitted by Data Driven Detroit

February 15, 2012 City Council Special Session Meeting Agenda

February 15, 2012 City Council Special Session Meeting Notice

February 3, 2012 Council President Pro Tem Brown: Citizen Feedback Survey

February 2, 2012 City Council Community Meetings Flyer – Dates and Locations

January 23, 2012 City Planning Commission – Presentation to City Council

January 20, 2012 Research and Analysis Division – Memo – Council by District and Redistricting Update

January 20, 2012 City Planning Commission – Memo Update

January 19, 2012 City Planning Commission – Memo – Preliminary Drafts of City Council Districts

August 3, 2011 Research and Analysis Division & City Planning Commission – Memo – Redistricting (with initial draft maps)

Detroit Home Rule Charter – enacted January 1, 2012 – Sec. 3-108. Geographical Basis for Electing Council Members – City Council shall establish district wards that are as nearly of equal population as practicable, contiguous, compact and in accordance with any other criteria permitted by law.