Luna Pier is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,367 people and just one neighborhood, Luna Pier is the 420th largest community in Michigan.
Luna Pier is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Luna Pier is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Luna Pier who work in management occupations (11.53%), sales jobs (9.98%), and office and administrative support (7.98%).
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!) Luna Pier 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. Luna Pier has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Luna Pier than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Luna Pier may be for you.
Being a small city, Luna Pier does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Luna Pier is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.20% of adults 25 and older in Luna Pier have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Luna Pier in 2022 was $33,101, 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 $132,404 for a family of four. However, Luna Pier contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Luna Pier home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Luna Pier residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Luna Pier include German, Polish, Irish, English, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Luna Pier is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Luna Pier neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.0% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 1.4% have Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 17.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Luna Pier are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.9% of U.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, 40.0% 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 33.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.7%), and 9.1% 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 98.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include 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 Luna Pier, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report Polish roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (8.0%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.