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Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington>Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington| image_skyline = {{multiple image| border = infobox }}| imagesize = 300px| image_caption = | image_flag = Flag of the City of Wilmington.png| image_seal = Seal of Wilmington, Delaware.png| image_map = File:New Castle County Delaware Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Wilmington Highlighted 1077580.svg| mapsize = 250px| map_caption = Location within New Castle Countyframe=yesframe-align=centerframe-height=200qid=Q174224}}###{{coord39457548zoom=SWITCH:10;6;3marker=citystroke-color=#000000type2=shapefill-opacity2=SWITCH:0;0.1;0.1stroke-color2=#808080switch=Wilmington;Delaware;the United States}}| subdivision_type = Country| subdivision_name = United StatesU.S. state>State| subdivision_name1 = DelawareList of counties in Delaware>CountyNew Castle County, Delaware>New Castle| government_footnotes = Council-mayor government>Council-mayorList of mayors of Wilmington, Delaware>MayorMike Purzycki (Democratic Party (United States)>D)| leader_title1 = | leader_name1 = | established_title = Founded at The Rocks, Swedes’ Landing, Fort Christina, Kristinehamn settlement| established_date = March 1638| established_title1 = Incorporated as Willingtown| established_date1 = 1731| established_title2 = Borough Charter as Wilmington| established_date2 = 1739| established_title3 = City Charter| established_date3 = March 7, 1832PUBLISHER=UNITED STATES CENSUS BUREAUARCHIVE-DATE=OCTOBER 26, 2021URL-STATUS=LIVE, | unit_pref = Imperial| area_total_sq_mi = 17.19| area_land_sq_mi = 10.89| area_water_sq_mi = 6.29| area_urban_sq_mi = 213.352020 United States Census>2020| population_footnotes = | population_total = 70,898 (within city limits)List of United States urban areas>87th)Delaware Valley>Wilmington Metropolitan Division DE-MD-NJ Delaware statistical areasEastern Time Zone>EST| utc_offset = −5Eastern Daylight Time>EDT| utc_offset_DST = −4| elevation_footnotes = | elevation_ft = 9239457548region:US-DE_type:city|display=inline,title}}ZIP Code>ZIP Codes| postal_code = 19801-19810, 19850, 19880, 19884-19886, 19890-19899Area code 302>302Federal Information Processing Standards>FIPS code| blank_info = 10-77580Geographic Names Information System>GNIS feature ID214862, Wilmington, | blank2_name = AirportWilmington Airport (Delaware)>Wilmington Airport| blank3_name = Major highways25px25px25px|link=Interstate 495 (Delaware))| blank4_name = Commuter rail25px25px|link=Wilmington/Newark Line)| website = wilmingtonde.gov| area_total_km2 = 44.52| area_land_km2 = 28.22| area_water_km2 = 16.30| population_density_km2 = 2512.48| area_urban_km2 = 552.58| area_metro_km2 = 2859| area_metro_sq_mi = 1103.86| population_density_urban_km2 = 877.57| population_density_urban_sq_mi = 2272.91| population_density_metro_km2 = 253.23| population_density_metro_sq_mi = 655.87| population_density_sq_mi = 6510.38| elevation_max_m = 100| elevation_max_ft = 330| population_metro_footnotes = - New Castle County, DE - Cecil County, MD - Salem County, NJ| elevation_max_footnotes = - Mount Salem Hill, Rockford Park| population_urban_footnotes = - Northern NCCo.DE| area_metro_footnotes = - Wilmington/Newark Statistical Division, DE-MD-NJ| area_urban_footnotes = - Northern NCCo.DE}}Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink / Pakehakink)WEB, Lenape Talking Dictionary, May 27, 2012,www.talk-lenape.org/detail.php?id=8321,www.talk-lenape.org/detail.php?id=8321," title="web.archive.org/web/20160304032259www.talk-lenape.org/detail.php?id=8321,">web.archive.org/web/20160304032259www.talk-lenape.org/detail.php?id=8321, March 4, 2016, dead, is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area (synonymous with the Philadelphia metropolitan area). Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain.As of the 2020 census, the city’s population was 70,898.WEB, U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Delaware,www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/wilmingtoncitydelaware,DE/PST045219, U.S. Census Bureau, 24 August 2021, July 17, 2022,web.archive.org/web/20220717055323/https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/wilmingtoncitydelaware,DE/PST045221, live, Wilmington is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan statistical area (which also includes Philadelphia, Reading, Camden, and other urban areas), which had a 2020 core metropolitan statistical area population of 6,228,601, representing the seventh largest metropolitan region in the nation, and a combined statistical area population of 7.366 million.WEB,factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=PEP_2016_PEPANNRES&prodType=table, Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2016, comma-separated values, CSV, 2016 Population Estimates, United States Census Bureau, Population Division, March 2017, Aug 15, 2017,archive.today/20200214061222/https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=PEP_2016_PEPANNRES&prodType=table, February 14, 2020, dead,

History

{{More citations needed|section|date=November 2021}}{{for timeline}}File:FORT CHRISTIANA, WILMINGTON, NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|Fort Christina monument, location of the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New SwedenNew SwedenWilmington is built on the site of Fort Christina and the settlement Kristinehamn,WEB,www.geni.com/projects/Svenska-pr%25C3%25A4ster-genom-tiderna/11253, Svenska präster genom tiderna, Geni.com, 2018-07-26,www.geni.com/projects/Svenska-pr%C3%A4ster-genom-tiderna/11253," title="web.archive.org/web/20150906111054www.geni.com/projects/Svenska-pr%C3%A4ster-genom-tiderna/11253,">web.archive.org/web/20150906111054www.geni.com/projects/Svenska-pr%C3%A4ster-genom-tiderna/11253, September 6, 2015, live, the first Swedish settlement in North America. The modern city also encompasses other Swedish settlements, such as Timmerön / Timber Island (along Brandywine Creek), Sidoland (South Wellington), Strandviken (along the Delaware River near Simonds Garden) and Översidolandet (along the Christina River, near Woodcrest and Ashley Heights).The area now known as Wilmington was settled by the Lenape (or Delaware Indian) band led by Sachem (Chief) Mattahorn just before Henry Hudson sailed up the Len-api Hanna (“People Like Me River”, present Delaware River) in 1609. The area was called “Maax-waas Unk” or “Bear Place” after the Maax-waas Hanna (Bear River) that flowed by (present Christina River). It was called the Bear River because it flowed west to the “Bear People”, who are now known as the People of Conestoga or the Susquehannocks.The Dutch heard and spelled the river and the place as Minguannan. When settlers and traders from the Swedish South Company under Peter Minuit arrived in March 1638 on the Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel, they purchased Maax-waas Unk from Chief Mattahorn and built Fort Christina at the mouth of the Maax-waas Hanna (which the Swedes renamed the Christina River after Queen Christina of Sweden). The area was also known as “The Rocks”, and is located near the foot of present-day Seventh Street. Fort Christina served as the headquarters for the colony of New Sweden which consisted of, for the most part, the lower Delaware River region (parts of present-day Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey), but few colonists settled there.{{Citation |last=Munroe |first=John A. }}File:Wilmington founding stamp.JPG|thumb|left|Founding of Wilmington stamp. (See New SwedenNew SwedenFile:Old Town Hall Wilmington.JPG|thumb|left|Old Town Hall, late-Georgian / early-Federal style]]The most important Swedish governor was Colonel Johan Printz, who ruled the colony under Swedish law from 1643 to 1653. He was succeeded by Johan Rising, who upon his arrival in 1654, seized the Dutch post Fort Casimir, located at the site of the present town of New Castle, which was built by the Dutch in 1651. Rising governed New Sweden until the autumn of 1655, when a Dutch fleet under the command of Peter Stuyvesant subjugated the Swedish forts and established the authority of the Colony of New Netherland throughout the area formerly controlled by the Swedes. This marked the end of Swedish rule in North America.Beginning in 1664, British colonization began; after a series of wars between the Dutch and English, the area stabilized under British rule, with strong influences from the Quaker communities under the auspices of Proprietor William Penn. A borough charter was granted in 1739 by King George II, which changed the name of the settlement from Willington, after Thomas Willing (the first developer of the land, who organized the area in a grid pattern similar to that of its northern neighbor Philadelphia),{{Citation |last=Munroe |first=John A. |title=History of Delaware |edition=5th |page=57 Although during the American Revolutionary War only one small battle was fought in Delaware, British troops occupied Wilmington shortly after the nearby Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777. The British remained in the town until they vacated Philadelphia in 1778.In 1800, Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, a French Huguenot, emigrated to the United States. Knowledgeable in the manufacture of gunpowder, by 1802 DuPont had begun making the explosive in a mill on the Brandywine River north of Brandywine Village and just outside the town of Wilmington.WEB , Located on the banks of the Brandywine River, the village was eventually annexed by Wilmington city.(File:Hagley DuPont Wagon.jpg|thumb|Original DuPont powder wagon)The greatest growth in the city occurred during the Civil War. Delaware, though officially remaining a member of the Union, was a border state and divided in its support of both the Confederate and the Union causes. The war created enormous demand for goods and materials supplied by Wilmington including ships, railroad cars, gunpowder, shoes, and other war-related goods.By 1868, Wilmington was producing more iron ships than the rest of the country combined{{cn|date=April 2023}} and it rated first in the production of gunpowder and second in carriages and leather. Due to the prosperity Wilmington enjoyed during the war, city merchants and manufacturers expanded Wilmington’s residential boundaries westward in the form of large homes along tree-lined streets. This movement was spurred by the first horsecar line, which was initiated in 1864 along Delaware Avenue.(File:Wilmington, Del. (2674627824).jpg|thumb|right|Map of Wilmington, Delaware, 1874)The late 19th century saw the development of the city’s first comprehensive park system. William Poole Bancroft, a successful Wilmington businessman influenced by the work of Frederick Law Olmsted, led the effort to establish open parkland in Wilmington. Rockford Park and Brandywine Park were created due to Bancroft’s efforts.Both World Wars stimulated the city’s industries. Industries vital to the war effort – shipyards, steel foundries, machinery, and chemical producers – operated around the clock. Other industries produced such goods as automobiles, leather products, and clothing. In desperate need of workers more and more minorities moved to the north and settled in places like Wilmington. This led to tensions that occasionally boiled over like the Wilmington, Delaware race riot of 1919.The post-war prosperity again pushed residential development further out of the city. In the 1950s, more people began living in the suburbs of North Wilmington and commuting into the city to work. This was made possible by extensive upgrades to area roads and highways and through the construction of Interstate 95, which cut through several of Wilmington’s neighborhoods and accelerated the city’s population decline. Urban renewal projects in the 1950s and 1960s cleared entire blocks of housing in the Center City and East Side areas.The Wilmington riot of 1968, a few days after the April 4 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., became national news. On April 9, Governor Charles L. Terry, Jr. deployed the National Guard and the Delaware State Police to the city at the request of Mayor John Babiarz. Babiarz asked Terry to withdraw the National Guard the following week, but the governor kept them in the city until his term ended in January 1969. This is reportedly the longest occupation of an American city by state forces in the nation’s history.{{Citation |last=Boyer |first=William W. |title=Governing Delaware: Policy Problems In The First State |access-date=May 14, 2011 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xN3pzLSQN8IC&pg=PA57 |format=eBook |page=57 |chapter=Chapter Three: The Governor as Leader |year=2000 |publisher=University of Delaware Press (eBook: Google) |location=Newark, Delaware |isbn=0-87413-721-7 |oclc=609154858 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xN3pzLSQN8IC&pg=PA56 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606212918books.google.com/books?id=xN3pzLSQN8IC&pg=PA57 |archive-date=June 6, 2013 |url-status=live }}In the 1980s, job growth and office construction were spurred by the arrival of national banks and financial institutions in the wake of the 1981 Financial Center Development Act, which liberalized the laws governing banks operating within the state, and similar laws in 1986. Today, many national and international banks, including Bank of America, Capital One, Chase, and Barclays, have operations in the city, typically credit card operations.

Geography

(File:Wilmington aerial.jpg|thumb|left|Aerial view of Wilmington)According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of {{convert|17.0|mi2|km2}}, of which {{convert|10.9|mi2|km2}} is land and {{convert|6.2|mi2|km2}} is water. The total area is 36.25% water.The city sits at the confluence of the Christina and Delaware rivers, approximately {{convert|33|mi|km}} southwest of Philadelphia. Wilmington Train Station, one of the southernmost stops on Philadelphia’s SEPTA rail transportation system, is also served by Northeast Corridor Amtrak passenger trains. Wilmington is served by I-95 and I-495 within city limits. In addition, the twin-span Delaware Memorial Bridge, a few miles south of the city, provides direct highway access between Delaware and New Jersey, carrying the I-295 eastern bypass route around Wilmington and Philadelphia, as well as US 40, which continues eastward to Atlantic City, New Jersey.These transportation links and geographic proximity give Wilmington some of the characteristics of a satellite city to Philadelphia, but Wilmington’s long history as Delaware’s principal city, its urban core, and its independent value as a business destination makes it more properly considered a small but independent city in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.Wilmington lies along the Fall Line geological transition from the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain. East of Market Street, and along both sides of the Christina River, the Coastal Plain land is flat, low-lying, and in places marshy. The Delaware River here is an estuary at sea level (with twice-daily high and low tides), providing sea-level access for ocean-going ships.On the western side of Market Street, the Piedmont topography is rocky and hilly, rising to a point that marks the watershed between the Brandywine River and the Christina River. This watershed line runs along Delaware Avenue westward from 10th Street and Market Street.These contrasting topography and soil conditions affected the industrial and residential development patterns within the city. The hilly west side was more attractive for the original residential areas, offering springs and sites for mills, better air quality, and fewer mosquitoes.

Surrounding municipalities

{{Geographic location|Northwest = Greenville, Delaware|North = Talleyville, Delaware|Northeast = Bellefonte, Delaware|West = Elsmere, Delaware|Center = Wilmington, Delaware|South = New Castle, Delaware|Southwest = Newport, Delaware|Southeast = Pennsville, New Jersey|East = Penns Grove, New Jersey}}

Climate

(File:Monthly Climate Normals (1991-2020) - Wilmington Area, DE(ThreadEx).svg|thumb|right|Climate chart for Wilmington)Wilmington has a warm temperate climate or humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with hot and humid summers, cool to cold winters, and precipitation evenly spread throughout the year. In July, the daily average is {{convert|76.8|°F|1}}, with an average 21 days of {{convert|90|°F|0}}+ highs annually. Summer thunderstorms are common in the hottest months. The January daily average is {{convert|32.4|°F|1}}, although temperatures may occasionally reach {{convert|10|°F|0}} or {{convert|55|°F}} as fronts move toward and past the area. Snowfall is light to moderate, and variable, with some winters bringing very little of it and others witnessing several major snowstorms; the average seasonal total is {{convert|20.2|in|cm}}. Extremes in temperature have ranged from {{convert|-15|°F|0}} on February 9, 1934, up to {{convert|107|°F|0}} on August 7, 1918, though both {{convert|100|°F|0}}+ and {{convert|0|°F|0}} readings are uncommon; the last occurrence of each was July 18, 2012 and February 5, 1996, respectively. {{Weather box|location = Wilmington, Delaware (New Castle County Airport), 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1894–present|single line = Y|Jan record high F = 75|Feb record high F = 78|Mar record high F = 86|Apr record high F = 97|May record high F = 98|Jun record high F = 102|Jul record high F = 103|Aug record high F = 107|Sep record high F = 100|Oct record high F = 98|Nov record high F = 85|Dec record high F = 75|year record high F = 107|Jan avg record high F = 63.1|Feb avg record high F = 63.8|Mar avg record high F = 73.8|Apr avg record high F = 83.3|May avg record high F = 89.1|Jun avg record high F = 93.5|Jul avg record high F = 95.8|Aug avg record high F = 93.8|Sep avg record high F = 89.7|Oct avg record high F = 82.6|Nov avg record high F = 72.3|Dec avg record high F = 64.2|year avg record high F = 96.9|Jan high F = 41.4|Feb high F = 44.1|Mar high F = 52.5|Apr high F = 64.2|May high F = 73.5|Jun high F = 82.2|Jul high F = 86.8|Aug high F = 84.9|Sep high F = 78.5|Oct high F = 67.0|Nov high F = 55.9|Dec high F = 46.0|year high F = 64.8|Jan mean F = 33.5|Feb mean F = 35.5|Mar mean F = 43.2|Apr mean F = 53.9|May mean F = 63.5|Jun mean F = 72.6|Jul mean F = 77.6|Aug mean F = 75.8|Sep mean F = 68.9|Oct mean F = 57.2|Nov mean F = 46.6|Dec mean F = 38.2|year mean F = 55.5|Jan low F = 25.6|Feb low F = 27.0|Mar low F = 33.9|Apr low F = 43.5|May low F = 53.4|Jun low F = 63.0|Jul low F = 68.3|Aug low F = 66.6|Sep low F = 59.3|Oct low F = 47.3|Nov low F = 37.4|Dec low F = 30.3|year low F = 46.3|Jan avg record low F = 9.7|Feb avg record low F = 12.0|Mar avg record low F = 18.9|Apr avg record low F = 30.2|May avg record low F = 39.2|Jun avg record low F = 49.9|Jul avg record low F = 58.3|Aug avg record low F = 56.0|Sep avg record low F = 45.1|Oct avg record low F = 33.4|Nov avg record low F = 23.3|Dec avg record low F = 16.4|year avg record low F = 7.4|Jan record low F = −14|Feb record low F = −15|Mar record low F = 2|Apr record low F = 11|May record low F = 30|Jun record low F = 40|Jul record low F = 48|Aug record low F = 43|Sep record low F = 32|Oct record low F = 23|Nov record low F = 11|Dec record low F = −7|year record low F = -15|precipitation colour = green|Jan precipitation inch = 3.23|Feb precipitation inch = 2.83|Mar precipitation inch = 4.16|Apr precipitation inch = 3.51|May precipitation inch = 3.57|Jun precipitation inch = 4.67|Jul precipitation inch = 4.41|Aug precipitation inch = 3.98|Sep precipitation inch = 4.38|Oct precipitation inch = 3.68|Nov precipitation inch = 3.06|Dec precipitation inch = 3.85|year precipitation inch = 45.33|Jan snow inch = 6.1|Feb snow inch = 7.8|Mar snow inch = 3.1|Apr snow inch = 0.1|May snow inch = 0.0|Jun snow inch = 0.0|Jul snow inch = 0.0|Aug snow inch = 0.0|Sep snow inch = 0.0|Oct snow inch = 0.0|Nov snow inch = 0.2|Dec snow inch = 2.9|year snow inch = 20.2|unit precipitation days = 0.01 in|Jan precipitation days = 10.8|Feb precipitation days = 10.0|Mar precipitation days = 11.2|Apr precipitation days = 11.1|May precipitation days = 11.7|Jun precipitation days = 11.0|Jul precipitation days = 10.0|Aug precipitation days = 8.9|Sep precipitation days = 8.8|Oct precipitation days = 8.9|Nov precipitation days = 8.8|Dec precipitation days = 10.6|year precipitation days = 121.8|unit snow days = 0.1 in|Jan snow days = 3.5|Feb snow days = 3.5|Mar snow days = 1.7|Apr snow days = 0.1|May snow days = 0.0|Jun snow days = 0.0|Jul snow days = 0.0|Aug snow days = 0.0|Sep snow days = 0.0|Oct snow days = 0.0|Nov snow days = 0.2|Dec snow days = 1.7|year snow days = 10.7|source 1 = NOAAWEB,w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=phi, NowData - NOAA Online Weather Data, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, June 18, 2021, March 5, 2012,web.archive.org/web/20120305104542/https://w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=phi, live, WEB,www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&startDate=0001-01-01&endDate=9996-12-31&stations=USW00013781&format=pdf, Station: Wilmington New Castle CO AP, DE, U.S. Climate Normals 2020: U.S. Monthly Climate Normals (1991-2020), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, June 18, 2021, June 11, 2021,web.archive.org/web/20210611115146/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&startDate=0001-01-01&endDate=9996-12-31&stations=USW00013781&format=pdf, live, }}{{Graph:Weather monthly history| table=Ncei.noaa.gov/weather/Wilmington, Delaware.tab| title=Wilmington monthly weather statistics}}

Demographics

{{US Census population|1820= 5268|1830= 6628|1840= 8367|1850= 13979|1860= 21258|1870= 30841|1880= 42478|1890= 61431|1900= 76508|1910= 87411|1920= 110168|1930= 106597|1940= 112504|1950= 110356|1960= 95827|1970= 80386|1980= 70195|1990= 71529|2000= 72664|2010= 70851|2020= 70898PUBLISHER=U.S. CENSUS BUREAU ARCHIVE-DATE=JUNE 13, 2021 URL-STATUS=LIVE, }}

2020 census{| class“wikitable” style@text-align:center;”

Wilmington city, Delaware – Racial and ethnic composition{{nobold>Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.}}!Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic)!Pop 2000WEB, P004 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Wilmington city, Delaware,data.census.gov/table?q=160XX00US1077580&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004, United States Census Bureau, !Pop 2010WEB, P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Wilmington city, Delaware,data.census.gov/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US1077580&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2, United States Census Bureau, !{{partial|Pop 2020}}WEB, P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE - 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Wilmington city, Delaware,data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US1077580&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2, United States Census Bureau, !% 2000!% 2010!{{partial|% 2020}}Non-Hispanic or Latino whites>White alone (NH)|23,352|19,77018,892|32.14%|27.90%26.65%Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans>Black or African American alone (NH)|40,545|40,17038,627|55.80%|56.70%54.48%Native Americans in the United States>Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)|133|158116|0.18%|0.22%0.16%Asian Americans>Asian alone (NH)|468|648907|0.64%|0.91%1.28%Pacific Islander Americans>Pacific Islander alone (NH)|14|421|0.02%|0.01%0.03%Race and ethnicity in the United States census>Some Other Race alone (NH)|110|137342|0.15%|0.19%0.48%Multiracial Americans>Mixed Race or Multi-Racial (NH)|894|1,1762,570|1.23%|1.66%3.62%Hispanic and Latino Americans>Hispanic or Latino (any race)|7,148|8,7889,423|9.84%|12.40%13.29%|Total|72,664|70,85170,898|100.00%|100.00%100.00%As of the 2020 United States census, there were 70,898 people, 31,754 households, and 13,572 families residing in the city.

2010 census

As of the census of 2010, there were 70,851 people, 28,615 households, and 15,398 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|6,497.6|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 32,820 housing units at an average density of {{convert|3,009.9|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}} and with an occupancy rate of 87.2%. The racial makeup of the city was 58.0% African American, 32.6% White, 0.4% Native American, 1.0% Asian,