The median age in the city was 34.1 years. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 3.09. 36.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. There were 13,967 households, of which 32.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 27.9% were married couples living together, 22.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 43.5% were non-families. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.2% of the population.
The racial makeup of the city was 57.0% White, 34.5% African American, 0.9% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 2.6% from other races, and 4.5% from two or more races. There were 16,105 housing units at an average density of 1,133.4 per square mile (437.6/km 2). The population density was 2,702.4 inhabitants per square mile (1,043.4/km 2). Source 2: World Meteorological Organization (relative humidity 1961–1990) ĭemographics Historical populationĪs of the census of 2010, there were 38,401 people, 13,967 households, and 7,895 families residing in the city. Muskegon receives heavy lake effect snow during winter time from Lake Michigan.Ĭlimate data for Muskegon, Michigan ( Muskegon County Airport) 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1896–present Precipitation is very consistent year round. Muskegon has a humid continental climate ( Dfa) with hot summers and cold winters. The Muskegon River empties into Muskegon Lake at the city's northeast end.
The city is next to Lake Michigan to the west and Muskegon Lake to the north. Geography Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 18.12 square miles (46.93 km 2), of which 14.21 square miles (36.80 km 2) is land and 3.91 square miles (10.13 km 2) is water. It had its own post office from 1868 until 1892. Bluffton was founded as a lumbering village in 1862 in Laketon Township. Some neighborhoods of Muskegon began as separate villages. Lumbering in the mid-nineteenth century brought many settlers, especially ones from Germany, Ireland, and Canada. The commencement of the lumber industry in 1837 inaugurated what some regard as the most romantic era in the history of the region. Įuro-American settlement of Muskegon began in earnest in 1837, which coincided with the beginning of the exploitation of the area's extensive timber resources.
Between 18, several French Canadian fur traders, including Lamar Andie, Jean Baptiste Recollect, and Pierre Constant had established fur trading posts around Muskegon Lake. Sometime between 17, a French-Canadian trader named Joseph La Framboise established a fur trading post at the mouth of Duck Lake. The county's earliest known Euro-American resident was Edward Fitzgerald, a fur trader and trapper who came to the Muskegon area in 1748 and who died there, reportedly being buried in the vicinity of White Lake. Ignace in 1675 and a party of French soldiers under La Salle's lieutenant, Henry de Tonty, passed through the area in 1679. Father Jacques Marquette traveled northward through the area on his fateful trip to St. The "Masquigon" River ( Muskegon River) was identified on french maps dating from the late seventeenth century, suggesting French explorers had reached Michigan's western coast by that time. The name "Muskegon" is derived from the Ottawa tribe term "Masquigon," meaning "marshy river or swamp". A leading participant in the French-inspired annihilation of the Fox Indians of Illinois in the 1730s, Pendalouan, and his people lived in the Muskegon vicinity during the 1730s and 1740s until the French induced them to move their settlement to the Traverse Bay area in 1742. Perhaps the best remembered of the area's Indian inhabitants was the Ottawa Indian Chief, Pendalouan. ĭuring historic times, the Muskegon area was inhabited by various bands of the Odawa (Ottawa) and Pottawatomi Indian tribes, but by 1830 Muskegon was solely an Ottawa village. The Paleo-Indians were superseded by several stages of Woodland Indian developments, the most notable of whom were the Hopewellian type-tradition, which occupied this area, perhaps two thousand years ago. Human occupation of the Muskegon area goes back seven or eight thousand years to the nomadic Paleo-Indian hunters who occupied the area following the retreat of the Wisconsonian glaciations. The entrance to Muskegon Lake from Lake Michigan at Muskegon, Michigan
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