Detroit illiteracy rate. If you consider that most of your target audience will be functioning at a very low literacy level i would place the following paragraph at the bottom rather than the top of your form. In the united states the illiteracy rate has not changed in the past 10 years. Housing units july 1 2019 v2019 x.
According to estimates by the national institute for literacy roughly 47 percent of adults in detroit michigan 200000 total are functionally illiterate meaning they have trouble with reading speaking writing and computational skills. Of those 200000 people about half have a high school diploma. The national institute for literacy estimates that 47 of adults more than 200000 individuals in the city of detroit are functionally illiterate referring to the inability of an individual to.
And of those that stuck around nearly half of them are functionally illiterate a new report finds. The report contains no research but simply states in a single bullet point that the national institute for literacy estimates that 47 of adults more than 200000 individuals in the city of. Detroits population fell by 25 percent in the last decade.
The city has a high rate of adult illiteracy an issue that was raised in an amicus brief written on behalf of the mayors office by eli savit senior adviser to detroit mayor mike duggan. Median value of owner occupied housing units 2014 2018. According to the us department of education and the national institute of literacy the following statistics outline the state of literacy in the united states.
According to estimates by the national institute for literacy roughly 47 percent of adults in detroit michigan 200000 total are functionally illiterate meaning they have trouble with reading speaking writing and computational skills. Owner occupied housing unit rate 2014 2018.