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Athens, MI

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Overview


Athens is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 956 people and just one neighborhood, Athens is the 489th largest community in Michigan. Much of the housing stock in Athens was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Athens, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 53.74% of Athens’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Athens is a village of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Athens who work in maintenance occupations (7.83%), healthcare (6.58%), and office and administrative support (6.41%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.24% 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

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, Athens has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Athens a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Athens, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.95 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small village, Athens does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Athens have a very low rate of college education: just 8.56% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Athens in 2018 was $28,711, 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 $114,844 for a family of four. However, Athens contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Athens is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry.

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 Athens are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.7% 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, 41.3% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.3%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.2%).

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 Athens, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report English roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.6%) 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 (6.4%) . 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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