Pigeon - Bay Port is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 3,423 people and just one neighborhood, Pigeon - Bay Port is the 253rd largest community in Michigan.
Pigeon - Bay Port is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pigeon - Bay Port is a town of managers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pigeon - Bay Port who work in management occupations (15.09%), office and administrative support (11.45%), and food service (7.16%).
As is often the case in a small town, Pigeon - Bay Port doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Pigeon - Bay Port with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.82% of adults in Pigeon - Bay Port have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pigeon - Bay Port in 2022 was $28,727, which is middle income relative to Michigan, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,908 for a family of four. However, Pigeon - Bay Port contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pigeon - Bay Port home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pigeon - Bay Port residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Pigeon - Bay Port include German, Irish, English, Polish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Pigeon - Bay Port is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Chinese.
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 Pigeon - Bay Port, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 45 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 46.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 3.3% have Hungarian 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 Pigeon - Bay Port are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.2% 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, 34.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.5%), and 15.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.
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 Pigeon - Bay Port, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (46.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report English roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (8.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
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 (11.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.