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Bruce Crossing, MI

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Overview


Bruce Crossing is a tiny town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 184 people and just one neighborhood, Bruce Crossing is the 649th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Bruce Crossing is a blue-collar town, with 43.40% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bruce Crossing is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bruce Crossing who work in teaching (22.64%), law enforcement and fire fighting (13.21%), and maintenance occupations (5.66%).

Of important note, Bruce Crossing is also a town of artists. Bruce Crossing has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Bruce Crossing’s character.

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Bruce Crossing has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Also of interest is that Bruce Crossing has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Bruce Crossing’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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!) Bruce Crossing 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. Bruce Crossing has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bruce Crossing than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bruce Crossing may be for you.

Bruce Crossing 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.

Demographics

The population of Bruce Crossing has a very low overall level of education: only 7.25% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Bruce Crossing in 2022 was $31,188, which is middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,752 for a family of four. However, Bruce Crossing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Bruce Crossing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bruce Crossing residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Bruce Crossing include Finnish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Bruce Crossing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 52.6% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.9% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 38.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 5.7% have Swedish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Bruce Crossing are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 59.2% of America'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, 33.7% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 11.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 98.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Bruce Crossing, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Finnish (38.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (19.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.1%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (5.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.1%) 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 (8.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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