Fair Haven is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 4,999 people and two associated neighborhoods, Fair Haven is the 196th largest community in Michigan.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Fair Haven is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.20% of the Fair Haven workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Fair Haven is a town of managers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fair Haven who work in management occupations (20.00%), food service (6.36%), and office and administrative support (6.27%). Also of interest is that Fair Haven has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.72% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. 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!) Fair Haven 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. Fair Haven has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fair Haven than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fair Haven may be for you. One downside of living in Fair Haven is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fair Haven, the average commute to work is 30.67 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Fair Haven 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 education level of Fair Haven citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.84% of adults in Fair Haven have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Fair Haven in 2022 was $41,009, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $164,036 for a family of four. However, Fair Haven contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Fair Haven home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fair Haven residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fair Haven include German, Polish, English, Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Fair Haven is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
