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Vermontville - Sunfield, MI

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Overview


Vermontville - Sunfield is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 3,986 people and just one neighborhood, Vermontville - Sunfield is the 231st largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Vermontville - Sunfield is a blue-collar town, with 38.58% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Vermontville - Sunfield is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Vermontville - Sunfield who work in office and administrative support (14.15%), management occupations (7.34%), and sales jobs (7.28%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.84% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Vermontville - Sunfield is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Vermontville - Sunfield, the average commute to work is 31.10 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Vermontville - Sunfield with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.41% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Vermontville - Sunfield in 2018 was $30,930, which is middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $123,720 for a family of four. However, Vermontville - Sunfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Vermontville - Sunfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vermontville - Sunfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Vermontville - Sunfield include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Vermontville - Sunfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Vermontville - Sunfield, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Significantly, 4.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.9% 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 Vermontville - Sunfield are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.5% of U.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, 37.5% 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 23.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 18.6% 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 93.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.

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 Vermontville - Sunfield, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (73.8%) 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 (14.1%) . 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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