Flint Snapshot
• Total Population: 124,943
• Median Age: 31
• Under 18: 30.6%
• 65 and over: 10.5%
• Average Income: $28,015
• Percentage at or below Poverty Level: 26.4%
Unique Features
• Fifth-largest city in Michigan
• Just 60 miles from Detroit, Ann Arbor, and East Lansing
• Less than two hours to Michigan’s wilderness areas
• Home to the Buick Open PGA Tour
• Many well-preserved Victorian homes
• One of the original centers of Michigan blues
• Half of Flint’s 14 tallest buildings were built in the 1920s
• Michigan’s School for the Deaf and Blind is located in Flint
• Host to the Michigan Storytellers’ Festival
• Home to Longway Planetarium, the largest and best-equipped planetarium in Michigan
Historical significance
• Early home to several Ojibwa tribes
• The ideal stopover for fur traders on the route between Detroit and Saginaw
• A late 1800s lumber center
• Became major carriage manufacturer
• Original home of Buick and AC Spark Plug
• Home to Chevrolet’s first manufacturing facility
• Famous for the 1936 UAW sit-down strike, which ushered in the era of labor unions
• The eighth-deadliest tornado in history killed 115 and injured 844 in the Flint area
• Featured in the documentary Roger and Me, by Michael Moore
Major Employers (according to the Flint Chamber of Commerce)
• Citizens Commercial & Savings Bank
• City of Flint
• Delphi Automotive Systems, Inc.
• Flint Community Schools
• General Motors Corp.
• Genesee County
• Genesys Health System
• Hurley Medical Center, Inc.
• McLaren Regional Medical Center
• Meijer, Inc. (3 stores)