• Total Population: 22,976
• Median Age: 32
• Under 18: 27.8%
• 65 and over: 11.9%
• Average Income: $26,616
• Percentage at or below Poverty Level: 27%

• Surrounded by the city of Detroit, but shares small border with Highland Park
• Known as Michigan’s most diverse major city
• 26 native languages are spoken by Hamtramck’s schoolchildren
• The city’s official motto is “A League of Nations”
• City’s Polish ancestry is reflected in its family, street, and business names
• Named by Utne Reader as “one of the hippest neighborhoods in the U.S. and Canada”
• Maxim Blender selected Hamtramck as “Most Rock ‘N Roll City in the U.S.”
• Home to several of Michigan’s most distinguished music venues
• Location of nationally known Kowalski Sausage Company

• Originally settled by German farmers
• Named for Col. Jean François Hamtramck, who took possession of Detroit following evacuation of the British in 1796
• Township of Hamtramck established in 1798
• Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company established in 1910
• Experienced a major influx of Polish immigrants once Dodge factory opened in 1914
• Incorporated in 1922 to avoid annexation by Detroit
• Won Little League World Series in 1959

• General Motors
• America Axle and Manufacturing
• Kowalski Sausage Company
• Freezer Services of Michigan
• National City Bank
• Caniff Electric
• City of Hamtramck
• Peoples State Bank
• Huntington Bank
• Detroit Edison