How soon before Lansing or some other MI city passes Detroit in population I wonder?
It has to have moved well out of the top 10 by size in the US.
Lansing has a population of about 117,000. Grand Rapids is the second largest city in MI at 195,000 (both figures - 2004 est). So - Detroit still has the largest population by far in the state. In 1950, Detroit was the 5th largest city in the US. Today, it is 11th.