Breedsville is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 200 people and just one neighborhood, Breedsville is the 643rd largest community in Michigan.
Unlike some villages, Breedsville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Breedsville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Breedsville is a village of managers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Breedsville who work in business and financial occupations (53.64%), healthcare suport services (6.36%), and management occupations (3.64%).
Overall, Breedsville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Breedsville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Breedsville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Breedsville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Breedsville may be for you.
Breedsville is a small village, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Breedsville, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.17% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Breedsville 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 population of Breedsville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.09% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Breedsville in 2022 was $26,687, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,748 for a family of four.
Breedsville is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Breedsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Breedsville residents report their race to be White. Breedsville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.83% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Breedsville include German, English, Polish, Dutch, and French.
The most common language spoken in Breedsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Breedsville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 30.8%, which is higher than 95.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 0.6% have Belgian ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Breedsville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 34.2% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.3%), and 16.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 87.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Breedsville, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (17.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report English roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.6%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.