Michigan's 13th congressional district

Michigan's 13th congressional district
Interactive map of district boundaries since January 3, 2023
Representative	Shri Thanedar D–Detroit
Distribution	100.00% urban 0.00% rural
Population (2022)	757,463
Median household income	$47,778[1]
Ethnicity	45.3% Black 36.8% White 10.3% Hispanic 4.0% Two or more races 2.9% Asian 0.7% other
Cook PVI	D+23[2]

Michigan's 13th congressional district is a United States congressional district in Wayne County, Michigan. It is currently represented by Democrat Shri Thanedar.

The district includes portions of Detroit and some of its suburbs, and from 2013-2023, was the only congressional district in Michigan to be contained within a single county.^[3] District boundaries were redrawn in 1993, 2003, 2013, and 2023 due to reapportionment following each respective census.

Before 1992, the 13th congressional district was a Detroit-based district represented by Barbara-Rose Collins. Besides Downtown Detroit, the southwest portion of the city, Mid-town, areas south of Highland Park, and the southern East Side, the district also included Grosse Pointe Park and Grosse Pointe City. During the 1980s, the 13th congressional district lost the most population out of any district in Michigan. However, due to the common interpretation of the Voting Rights Act, which mandates multiple districts in areas with racial majority-minority populations, it was not eliminated in the 1992 redistricting, only renumbered as the 15th district.

A special election was held on November 6, 2018, following the resignation of Representative John Conyers. Brenda Jones won the special election to fill the remainder of Conyers term in the 115th Congress. Democrat Rashida Tlaib won the regular election for the term in the 116th Congress.^[4] Tlaib was redrawn into the 12th district after the 2020 redistricting cycle.^[5] With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of D+23, it is tied with the 12th as the most Democratic districts in Michigan.^[2]