Madison Heights, Michigan Madison Heights City of Madison Heights Madison Heights is a town/city in Oakland County of the U.S.
Originally part of Royal Oak Township, Madison Heights incorporated as a town/city by prominent vote on January 17, 1955, and chartered on December 6 that same year, becoming the tenth town/city government in southern Oakland County.
At that time, the 7.2 square miles (18.6 km2) town/city was one of the biggest suburban communities in the Metro Detroit area.
The town/city lies in the Interstate 696 (I-696) and I-75 corridor and is served by two major school districts, Lamphere and Madison, as well as a full-service municipal government.
The current mayor of Madison Heights is Brian Hartwell.
While 91% of the buildings in Madison Heights are single-family homes or condominiums (approximately 9,800 residentiary property owners), 60% of the tax base is fueled by light industrialized or commercial property.
Madison Heights was titled a "High Tech Hot Spot" by a small-town magazine. The city's average number of fires per 1,000 citizens is 4.12, well below the nationwide average of 6.7 fires per 1,000 citizens .
There are more than 112 miles (180 km) of road inside Madison Heights, of which the town/city maintains 105 miles (169 km), 95 miles (153 km) for snow removal, sweeping, and patching.
The junction of these two highways is shared with Royal Oak and Hazel Park on the southwest corner of Madison Heights.
As of the 2010 census Madison Heights had a residentiary vacancy rate of 7.1%. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.09 square miles (18.36 km2), all land. Madison Heights is part of Oakland County's Automation Alley.
There are more than 1,300 commercial and industrialized businesses and services inside the city's 7.2 square miles (18.6 km2), and the town/city is proud to have a majority of small businesses, as well as more than 100 primary companies inside its borders, such as Best Buy, Coca-Cola, Commercial Steel Treating Corporation, Costco, CVS Pharmacy, Henkel Technologies, Home Depot, Meijer, Micro Center, Ogura Corporation, Sam's Club, Hungry Howie's, Target, UPS, WOW!, Culver's, and Sears.
The Hungry Howie's Pizza corporate command posts is positioned in Madison Heights. Madison Heights is also home to Moosejaw.
The Telway Hamburger System is a long-standing 24-hour restaurant in Madison Heights known for its sliders (small hamburgers) and its unique late-night crowds. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 83.9% White, 6.4% African American, 0.5% Native American, 5.8% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.7% from other competitions, and 2.7% from two or more competitions.
There were 12,712 homeholds of which 27.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.0% were married couples living together, 12.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.4% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 40.7% were non-families.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 89.60% White, 1.82% African American, 0.44% Native American, 4.97% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.46% from other competitions, and 2.68% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 22.1% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 35.4% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
As of 2009 there are a several Vietnamese businesses, including markets, restaurants, and specialty shops, along Dequindre and John R in Madison Heights.
Nicole Rupersburg of Metro D Media wrote that the prevalence of Vietnamese businesses is due to the higher than average Vietnamese populace in Madison Heights. The region along John R caters to a pan-Asian clientele, with businesses oriented to other ethnicities present alongside Vietnamese ones. 168 Asian Mart (168 ), a 38,000-square-foot (3,500 m2) supermarket, is the biggest Asian supermarket in southeast Michigan, and one of the biggest in the state. The store, owned by Ricky and Cindy Dong of Troy, opened on Monday June 1, 2015.
Enumeration Bureau, in 2008 1.9% of citizens in Madison Heights were of Vietnamese descent.
About 0.2% of all citizens in Michigan and about 0.2% of citizens in Oakland County are of Vietnamese descent, making the Madison Heights figures ten times the state average.
Rupersburg wrote that "comparable" areas around Madison Heights have Vietnamese descent figures of 0.3. Madison Heights also has a sizeable improve of Chinese descent.
Madison District Public Schools and Lamphere Public Schools have enhance schools serving Madison Heights Madison Heights is also home to Bishop Foley Catholic High School, a private school.
Four Corners Montessori Academy is a enhance charter school also positioned in Madison Heights.
The Japhet School was positioned in Madison Heights until 2013, when it moved to Clawson. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Madison Heights, Michigan "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Madison Heights city, Michigan".
2010 census report on Madison Heights "Asian Market to open in Madison Heights with food and made-to-order menu items" (Archive).
"Asian superstore opens in Madison Heights" (Archive).
(Archive) "31202 Dorchester, Madison Heights, MI 48701" "Mailing address through August 20: above" and "Mailing address after August 20: 839 S.
City of Madison Heights Madison Heights Parade Committee Madison Heights Library Online Catalog Madison Heights Little Baseball Inc.
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