Osborn, Detroit

Osborn is a community in northeast Detroit, Michigan. The Skillman Foundation selected Osborn to be one of the neighborhoods covered by the Good Neighborhoods Initiative.

An April 2011 report from the office of Mayor of Detroit Dave Bing said that gangs, "especially transient gangs that are less organized — and often, randomly violent — terrorize some of our neighborhoods including … Osborn,"

In 2012, as part of the 100 Houses project, volunteers boarded up various vacant houses in Osborn.

Osborn is bounded by 8 Mile Road, McNichols Road, Gratiot Avenue, and Van Dyke.

In 2012 Jeff Siedel of the Detroit Free Press said "The neighborhood surrounding [Osborn High School] looks like a cracked, empty shell. Everywhere you look, there are broken windows, overgrown weeds, barbed wire fences and abandoned homes."

As of 2012, according to the Detroit Center for Family Advocacy the median family income was $32,421. Single parents are the heads of over 30% of Osborne families, while in the U.S. the national percentage is 9.1%. Of children born to parents living in Osborn, 22.4% were born to teenage parents. 35.7% of Osborn residents are children who live in poverty, while 13.9% of all Michigan residents are children in poverty.

A 2010 report from Data Driven Detroit, City Connect Detroit, stated that Osborn had 27,166 residents. The community was 91.3% black, 4.3% white, 2.1% Asian, 1.4% reporting more than one race, and .7% Hispanic and Latino; the Hmong people comprise most Asians in Osborn. The report said that the Hmong, which numbered at 560, "had established a tight-knit community in Osborn". According to the 2000 U.S. Census Osborn had 37,358 people, with 84.1% being black, and 8.6% white. There were 1,700 Hmong people in Osborn. Between the 2000 census and the 2010 U.S. Census the population experienced a 27.3% decline. The number of children and youth in Osborn decreased by 5,912, a 39.3% decline. The number of African-Americans decreased by 21.1%, but proportionately became a higher percentage of the community. The numbers of White, multiethnic, and Asian/Hmong groups had the most severe declines. The white population declined by 64%. The Hmong population declined by 66%. Most Hmong moving from Osborn settled in Macomb County, mainly in Hmong communities in Warren and Center Line. In addition, some Hmong moved to Sterling Heights.

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