Coleman is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,264 people and just one neighborhood, Coleman is the 442nd largest community in Michigan.
Coleman is a blue-collar town, with 36.12% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Coleman is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Coleman who work in management occupations (13.51%), healthcare suport services (9.58%), and food service (7.86%).
Coleman is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Coleman are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.19% of adults in Coleman have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Coleman in 2022 was $21,972, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,888 for a family of four.
The people who call Coleman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Coleman residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Coleman include German, Irish, English, French, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Coleman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Langs. of India.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish 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 Coleman are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.0% of U.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, 30.1% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.6%), and 19.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.0%).
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 Coleman, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report English roots (12.4%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.0%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (14.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.