(“Wayne County” is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Michigan)
As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,820,584, making it the 19th-most populous county in the United States.
The 2014 Census update listed the county’s population at 1,764,804.
The county seat is Detroit, the most populous city in Michigan and 18th-most populous cityin the United States.
The county was founded in 1796 and organized in 1815.
Wayne County is included in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area.
(it is one of several American counties named after Revolutionary War General ‘Anthony Wayne’)