Pinconning is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,187 people and just one neighborhood, Pinconning is the 451st largest community in Michigan.
When you are in Pinconning, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.25% of Pinconning’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Pinconning is a city of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Pinconning who work in office and administrative support (13.97%), sales jobs (8.08%), and healthcare (5.46%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 14.09% 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.
In Pinconning, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.58 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Pinconning does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Pinconning overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Pinconning, 24.10% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pinconning in 2022 was $29,613, which is middle income relative to Michigan, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,452 for a family of four. However, Pinconning contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pinconning home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pinconning residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pinconning include German, English, Polish, French, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Pinconning is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Russian.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 14.2% have Polish ancestry.
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 Pinconning are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.9% 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 68.3% 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, 40.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 21.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.7%), and 17.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
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 Pinconning, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.7%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Polish roots (14.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.7%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (6.6%), 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 (34.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (85.4%) 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 (6.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.