Michigan Economic Data

The seated diners in Michigan restaurants is down 22% over the same day last year. As of June 8th, all Michigan restaurant dining rooms and bars can reopen at half capacity. The Detroit Region’s hotel occupancy decreased to 36.2% in May.

The OI Economic Tracker is an interactive tool helping identify pandemic-related impacts among industries and communities by visualizing consumer spending, status on small businesses, and job postings across the nation at granular levels.

New research from New American Economy (NAE) released in partnership with the City of Detroit, Detroit Regional Chamber, Global Detroit, Oakland County and Wayne County highlights how immigrants are both essential to the region’s COVID response efforts and especially vulnerable.

Since mid-March over 1.9 million people in Michigan have filed unemployment insurance claims. Michigan’s monthly unemployment rate peaked in April at 22.7%, and has decreased to 8.5% in September.

Detroit Metropolitan Airport experienced a 68% decrease in total passengers in the month of August compared to the same month last year. While U.S. airports saw an 69% decrease in airport travelers over the same weekday last year.

The Detroit region’s daily traffic decreased by 25.6 % over the same day last year, and down 19.2% for statewide daily traffic on the same day last year.