GET ME REWRITE: Michigan envies the booming metro area of Indianapolis (Hamilton County edition)

 

Source:  Wikipedia

Bridge Michigan 11/14/2023

And nowhere is that growth more apparent than Marion County, where Indianapolis is located, and the counties that surround it. While the population of Michigan’s largest metro area, Detroit, flatlined in the past decade, metro Indianapolis grew by a jaw-dropping 200,000 residents, roughly the equivalent of everyone in Livingston County. 

Formerly sleepy farm towns on the outskirts of Indianapolis are seeing cornfields swallowed up by subdivisions and downtowns knocked down for mixed-use buildings. Some down-on-their-heels neighborhoods in the city are being gentrified by the young, college-educated families Michigan is desperate to attract.

Demographically speaking.

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:

• 60.5% - Hamilton County
• 27.8% - Indiana
• 33.7% - U.S.

% of population 65 and older:

• 14.0% - Hamilton County
• 16.9% - Indiana
• 17.3% - U.S.

% of population living in poverty:

•   3.8% - Hamilton County
• 12.6% - Indiana
• 11.5% - U.S. 

And the county is turning blue.

Wikipedia 

3rd party votes:  19.1% in 1992, 7.6% in 1996. 7.2% in 2016

(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 10.6% of the vote in 1968)