The city is home to a wide variety of businesses, including the General Motors Technical Center, the United States Army Detroit Arsenal, home of the United States Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command and the Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC),[9] and the headquarters of Asset Acceptance.

[10] Beebe's Corners was a carriage stop between Detroit and Utica, and included a distillery, mill, tavern, and trading post.

Warren, a Methodist Episcopal preacher who left his native New York in 1824 for Shelby Township.

He went throughout the present-day Macomb, Lapeer, Oakland, and St. Clair Counties, baptizing, marrying, and burying pioneers of the area, as well as establishing congregations and preaching extensively.

[16] Much of this growth was due to the construction of the Chrysler's Truck Assembly plant in 1938, the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant in 1940 to support the WW II effort, and the General Motors Technical Center between 1949 and 1956.

The Red Run and Bear Creek, just small creeks back in the 1800s, has blossomed into an open major inter-county stormdrain flowing through Warren, into the Clinton River, and onwards to Lake St.

This population explosion was largely fueled by the post-WWII Baby Boom and later, by white flight from its southern neighbor of Detroit in that decade.

Historically, Warren was a sundown town: an all-white municipality that excluded non-whites through a combination of discriminatory practices, local ordinances, and violence.

13.5% of the city's population lives at or below the poverty line (down from previous ACS surveys).

[29] The top nine reported ancestries (people were allowed to report up to two ancestries, thus the figures will generally add to more than 100%) were German (11.0%), Polish (8.8%), Irish (6.8%), Italian (5.8%), English (5.2%), Subsaharan African (4.0%), French (except Basque) (2.7%), Scottish (1.2%), and Norwegian (0.2%).

[32] Warren remains a population center for people of Polish, Lebanese, Ukrainian, Albanian, Scots-Irish, Filipino, Maltese and Assyrian descent.

Many of the American Indians in Warren originated in the Southern United States with 429 Cherokee and 66 Lumbee.

The Lumbee were the third largest American Indian "tribe" in the city, with only the 193 Chippewa outnumbering them.

There are a number of distinguishing characteristics about Warren which render it unique among American cities of its relative size.

Warren was one of the fastest-growing municipalities in the country between 1940 and 1970, roughly doubling its population every 10 years.

Commissions include Animal Welfare, Beautification, Compensation, Crime, Cultural, Disabilities, Historical, Housing, Library, Planning, Police & Fire, and Village Historic District Commissions.

In 2015 there was a $100,000 judgment against the city government and Mayor James R. Fouts for denying Marshall the right to establish his atheist station.

[35][36][37] The United States Postal Service operates the Warren Post Office.

The neighborhood's racial makeup was 70.14% White, 15.50% African-American, 2.27% Asian, 0.38% Native American, and 6.80% of other races.

[39] Much of Southeast Warren's residential architecture is based on the bungalows built immediately after World War II.

To the north of Stephens Road, many homes were built after 1960 in the brick ranch style.

Besides the residential areas, Southeast Warren is also occupied by multiple industrial parks.

The neighborhood's racial makeup was 81.98% White, 7.9% African-American, 4.98% Asian, 0.48% Native American, and 4.23% of other races.

The Civic Center Library is located on the ground floor of the city hall.

[49] Our Lady of Grace was previously in Eastpointe, but moved to Warren in 2011 when it merged with St. Cletus Church.

St. Cletus had a predominately native-born population and had a declining parishioner base, and it could not find enough priests to staff the facility; meanwhile Our Lady of Grace had an increasing parishioner base and was asking for a larger facility.

[58][59] In 2003 the city built a new community center where the old Warren High School had been.

The Italian American Cultural Society (IACS) was located in Warren for 20 years.

[62] The Warren Police Department serves as the main law enforcement agency in the city.

[63] They are: The tenth and eleventh markers are technically in Center Line, Michigan but are included because of their proximity (both in distance and in history) to Warren: Additionally, about two dozen markers have been placed around designated sites in the city by the Warren Historical and Genealogical Society.