Bancroft is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 476 people and just one neighborhood, Bancroft is the 574th largest community in Michigan. Bancroft has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bancroft is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bancroft is a village of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bancroft who work in office and administrative support (24.40%), management occupations (10.40%), and food service (5.60%).
Also of interest is that Bancroft has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Overall, Bancroft’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
In Bancroft, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.77 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Bancroft is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Bancroft with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.33% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bancroft in 2022 was $35,613, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $142,452 for a family of four. However, Bancroft contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bancroft home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bancroft residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bancroft include German, English, Irish, Polish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Bancroft is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Our research reveals that 89.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.3% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Bancroft are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 65.9% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 35.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.1%), and 13.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Bancroft, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (21.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (89.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (5.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.