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Deckerville - Carsonville, MI

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Overview


Deckerville - Carsonville is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 3,841 people and just one neighborhood, Deckerville - Carsonville is the 235th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Deckerville - Carsonville is a blue-collar town, with 41.77% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Deckerville - Carsonville is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Deckerville - Carsonville who work in office and administrative support (14.80%), management occupations (8.84%), and sales jobs (5.74%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Deckerville - Carsonville rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.81% of adults 25 and older in Deckerville - Carsonville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Deckerville - Carsonville in 2022 was $27,451, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,804 for a family of four. However, Deckerville - Carsonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Deckerville - Carsonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Deckerville - Carsonville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Deckerville - Carsonville include German, Irish, English, Polish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Deckerville - Carsonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Deckerville - Carsonville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.4% 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, 37.5% 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 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.1%), and 14.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (8.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Deckerville - Carsonville, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report English roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (38.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (7.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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