Inkster, Michigan Inkster, Michigan City of Inkster Inkster is a town/city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States.
At the 2010 census, the town/city population was 25,369. It is one of the several Metro Detroit suburbs whose populace is majority African American.
Robert Inkster, a Scotsman born March 27, 1828, in Lerwick, Shetland, directed a steam sawmill on present-day Inkster Road near Michigan Avenue in the early 1860s.
After much legal wrangling by the town/city of Dearborn, Dearborn Township, and the village of Inkster to sort out final borders for these communities, Inkster was incorporated as a town/city in 1964. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.25 square miles (16.19 km2), all land. Inkster City Hall The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 73.2% African American, 20.5% White, 0.3% Native American, 1.6% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.7% from other competitions, and 3.6% from two or more competitions.
There were 9,821 homeholds of which 35.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 25.7% were married couples living together, 30.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 7.1% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 37.1% were non-families.
Inkster Justice Center, which is to home the Inkster Police Department and the 22nd District Court, was scheduled to be opened in Spring 2014.
Congressman Vern Buchanan interval up in Inkster and graduated from Inkster High in 1969 Portions of Inkster are inside the Wayne-Westland Community Schools, Westwood Community Schools, Taylor School District, and the Romulus School District. Westwood operates the Daly Elementary School and the Tomlinson Middle School in Inkster. Robichaud High School in Dearborn Heights is the precinct high school.
Wayne-Westland operates David Hicks Elementary School in Inkster. The portions of Inkster that are positioned in the Wayne-Westland precinct are zoned to Hicks. One portion of the Hicks zone is assigned to Marshall Upper Elementary School, Stevenson Middle School in Westland, John Glenn High School, all in Westland. Another portion of the Hicks zone is assigned to Adams Upper Elementary School in Westland, Franklin Middle School in Wayne, and Wayne Memorial High School in Wayne. Portions of Inkster that had been in the Taylor School District before to the dissolution of the Inkster School District are assigned to Taylor Parks Elementary School, Hoover Middle School, and Harry S.
Truman High School in Taylor. Romulus Senior High School is the Romulus district's secondary school.
Burger Baylor School for Students with Autism of the Garden City Public Schools is positioned in Inkster, in the former Baylor-Woodson Elementary School. Inkster High School, now closed Previously most of Inkster was inside the Inkster Public Schools district.
As of summer 2013, the Inkster Public Schools District was entirely dissolved. The remaining students were split up among the Taylor, Romulus, Wayne-Westland and Westwood districts. Inkster High School, the high school of the Inkster district, closed in 2013. Areas were given to the new districts by quadrants.
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Inkster, Michigan "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Inkster city, Michigan".
"City of Inkster, Wayne County, Michigan".
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Daly Elementary School.
Tomlinson Middle School.
David Hicks Elementary School.
"Hicks Elementary School 100 Helen Inkster, Michigan 48141" City of Inkster.
"Hicks Elementary School" (Archive) Wayne-Westland Community Schools.
"Marshall Upper Elementary School" (Archive).
Wayne-Westland Community Schools.
"Stevenson Middle School" (Archive) Wayne-Westland Community Schools.
(Archive) Wayne-Westland Community Schools.
(Archive) Wayne-Westland Community Schools.
(Archive) Wayne-Westland Community Schools.
(Archive) Wayne-Westland Community Schools.
"Elementary School Boundary Map." Taylor School District.
"Middle School Boundary Map." Taylor School District.
"High School Boundary Map." Taylor School District.
"Burger Baylor School 28865 Carlysle Inkster, MI 48141" Baylor-Woodson Elementary School.
"Dissolution of Inkster Public Schools." "Inkster schools first to be dissolved; students split athwart 4 districts." City of Inkster official website Inkster, Michigan Municipalities and communities of Wayne County, Michigan, United States
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