Morrice is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 986 people and just one neighborhood, Morrice is the 485th largest community in Michigan.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Morrice is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.46% of the Morrice workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Morrice is a village of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Morrice who work in sales jobs (13.43%), office and administrative support (8.08%), and healthcare (5.87%).
One downside of living in Morrice, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.72 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small village, Morrice does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Morrice are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.39% of adults in Morrice have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Morrice in 2022 was $25,129, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,516 for a family of four. However, Morrice contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Morrice is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Morrice home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Morrice residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Morrice include German, English, Irish, French, and European.
The most common language spoken in Morrice is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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 Morrice, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.7% 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 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Morrice are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 24.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.6% 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, 33.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (29.0%), and 7.2% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
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 97.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Morrice, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 (32.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.8%) 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 (13.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.