Hamtramck, Michigan has a population of 28,000.
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The Gerry Callahan ShowAug 4, 2026
The 28,000 figure matches the 2020 Census base (28,439) and older reporting (BBC 2021, Governing 2022), but the most recent estimates put the population at about 27,000 (27,261 for July 2025), so as of 2026-08-04 the figure is close but slightly high.
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What was said
… And, by the way, these are virulent anti-Semites. They don't like Jewish people. It's clear, and it's it is a scary time to be Jewish in New York City, in Western Europe, and soon in Michigan and Texas and other places. But let's, let's, uh, this report on what happened to one community, a town of 28,000 in Michigan, Hamtramk, which used to be a, it's like five miles from the Detroit, used to be thriving with Polish and German immigrants who worked in the auto plant, and it was a, in a normal American suburb. Now it is a Muslim enclave. …
The Gerry Callahan Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. The Census Bureau's July 1, 2025 estimate is 27,261, a 4.1% decline from 2020, and AP (2025) describes the population as about 27,000, so the current figure does not round to 28,000.[1][2]
Supports. The Census Bureau's April 1, 2020 estimates base is 28,439, which rounds to 28,000.[2]
Supports. BBC (2021) and Governing (2022) both describe Hamtramck as having a population of about 28,000.[3][4]
Context. Other compilations (WorldPopulationReview, MyTownView, Censuseasy, Data Commons) report 27,000 to 27,743, mostly inside the 27,000 to 28,000 range, and none reports 28,000 as the current figure.[5][6][7][8]
Context. The claim comes from a speaker's passage that describes Hamtramck as a town of 28,000; the figure is taken from that passage and is not an addition by the extraction.
Sources
8 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 1 tier 1, 5 not rated
- 1Generations later, a remedy to destroying Black neighborhoods is fulfilled in Michiganapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Hamtramck city, Michigancensus.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 3The US city run by Muslim Americansbbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: supports
- 4Muslims Control Michigan’s ‘Little Warsaw.’ Is It a Hollow Prize?governing.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Hamtramck, Michigan Population 2026worldpopulationreview.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Hamtramck, Michigan Budget & Spending 2026 - MyTownViewmytownview.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7Hamtramck, Michigan: demographics, income & housing data ...censuseasy.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 8Hamtramck - Data Commonsdatacommons.org · not rated · cited for: context
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