Another notable thing is that St. Helen is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) St. Helen 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. St. Helen has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in St. Helen than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, St. Helen may be for you.
One downside of living in St. Helen is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In St. Helen, the average commute to work is 31.06 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
St. Helen is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in St. Helen is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.75% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in St. Helen in 2022 was $30,264, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $121,056 for a family of four. However, St. Helen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. St. Helen also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.75% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call St. Helen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Helen residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in St. Helen include German, English, Irish, Hungarian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in St. Helen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
