Casnovia is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 320 people and just one neighborhood, Casnovia is the 620th largest community in Michigan. Casnovia has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Casnovia is a blue-collar town, with 39.46% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Casnovia is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Casnovia who work in sales jobs (14.80%), office and administrative support (9.87%), and food service (6.28%).
Also of interest is that Casnovia has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.62% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Overall, Casnovia’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Casnovia has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Casnovia a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small village, Casnovia doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Casnovia with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.13% of adults in Casnovia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Casnovia in 2022 was $36,822, 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 $147,288 for a family of four. However, Casnovia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Casnovia is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Casnovia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Casnovia residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Casnovia also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.34% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Casnovia include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Casnovia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Casnovia, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Casnovia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.0% 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 61.0% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 36.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.2%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 94.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish and Italian.
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 Casnovia, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (6.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.7%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (9.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.