Royal Oak Has Stats as Well as Trends

As of July 2009, Royal Oak had the healthy population statistic of 57,188, an increase of 4.8 percent since 2000. Females - er - outweigh the males 51.2 percent to 48.8 percent. The daytime population change due to commuting is a loss of 3,332 (-5.5 percent); gains include workers who live and work in the city at 6,275 or (18 percent).

Unemployment in RO as of April 2010 was below that of the state: 8.4 percent compared to 13.7. Of those still employed, the average commute to their jobs is 20-25 minutes, then 15 to 20, followed by 35 and 10 to 15. Those who drive a car alone to those jobs number about 90 percent, with about another 5 percent carpooling.

Across the city's 62 bridges - and all other routes - runs the daily traffic of 4,821,381, with daily truck traffic at 215,133.

Residential ancestral roots are: German (22.9 percent), Irish (17.1), English, (14.6), Polish (11.6), Italian (7.6) and French (5.1).

Comprised of 11.8 square miles, Royal Oak has a density of 4,840 people per square mile, and those miles are situated at 670 feet of elevation.

The area's historical tornado activity is above Michigan's state average and is 90 percent greater than the overall U.S. average. RO is also the birthplace of the NFL 's Brady Smith and Nick Luchey, as well as PGA player Michael Harris.

Cemeteries include Oakview and Royal Oak, and a reigning attraction is the Detroit Zoo - always a curiosity to outsiders who don't get why the Detroit Zoo is not, in fact, IN Detroit.

Among top lists, Royal Oak is as follows:

#8 in "Top 101 counties with the highest percentage of residents who visited a dentist within the past year."

#14 on "Top 101 counties with the highest Particulate Matter 24-hour air pollution readings in 2005."

#18 on the "Top 100 least racially diverse cities (population of 50,000+)."

#39 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the highest percentage of residents that drank alcohol within the past 30 days."

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