Prudenville is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,643 people and two associated neighborhoods, Prudenville is the 393rd largest community in Michigan.Prudenville is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 90.42% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Prudenville is a town of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Prudenville who work in food service (24.35%), management occupations (14.45%), and healthcare suport services (13.15%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 14.44% 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. Another notable thing is that Prudenville 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!) Prudenville 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. Prudenville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Prudenville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Prudenville may be for you. Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Prudenville spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 12.09 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be. Prudenville 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 Prudenville citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.13% of adults 25 and older in Prudenville have a college degree. The per capita income in Prudenville in 2022 was $35,095, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $140,380 for a family of four. However, Prudenville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Prudenville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Prudenville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Prudenville include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Dutch. The most common language spoken in Prudenville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
