Once, amongst the most important industrial centers that have fallen behind strongly in the last two decades, Detroit is now gaining positions on the national tech scale, promising a city reborn with new powers, based on new technologies and renewed IT infrastructure. 

Detroit registered good progress overall and started everything all over again by improving the stats of the most important KPIs, such as the unemployment rate and new tech job opportunities. In these regards, the unemployment rate went down to 4.8%, which is a bit higher than the national average of 4.3%. Also, in 2025, there were over 1,900 new tech positions annually through 2028, created for skilled workers. 

Also in 2024, CBRE placed Detroit in the 22nd position amongst the best tech talent in the US, even though both the city and the entire Michigan state contributed a small portion to the entire national tech ecosystem by 5.5%. By the end of 2024, the Detroit tech sector contributed to the local economy with almost $15.7bln. 

Now the real plan of Detroit to get bigger in the local tech market is not limited to providing new job opportunities, but also to attracting more companies, talents, and clients. This is why giants like Amazon invested in the tech education sector in Detroit and combining forces with local authorities, managed to set a solid ground for raising future skilled workers in the field. The talent pool attracts more companies and thus, more clients, which seems to be the perfect plan for a long-term development strategy. 

However, Detroit is not a Silicon Valley region and is probably far from reaching the same performance. There is a lot of work to be done, especially in increasing the reputation of the entire area and making local IT companies known internationally. 

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