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Flat Rock, MI
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Flat Rock profile


Living in Flat Rock



Flat Rock is a medium-sized city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 10,289 people and five associated neighborhoods, Flat Rock is the 109th largest community in Michigan.

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

One of the benefits of Flat Rock is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 0.00 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Being a small city, Flat Rock does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Flat Rock ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.00% of people over 25 have a college degree.

Flat Rock is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Flat Rock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Flat Rock residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Flat Rock include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.

The most common language spoken in Flat Rock is Italian. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Greek.