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Capac, MI

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Overview


Capac is a very small village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,978 people and just one neighborhood, Capac is the 354th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Capac is a blue-collar town, with 46.72% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Capac is a village of service providers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Capac who work in healthcare suport services (7.97%), office and administrative support (7.21%), and sales jobs (6.66%).

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

In Capac, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.52 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Capac is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.15% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Capac in 2018 was $27,165, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,660 for a family of four. However, Capac contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Capac is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Capac home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Capac residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Capac also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.98% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Capac include German, Irish, Polish, English, and Italian.

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

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

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 46.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.7% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 3.5% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Capac are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.0% 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, 46.2% 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 20.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.8%), and 15.2% 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 87.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Capac, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.9%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (14.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (10.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (10.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (11.2%) and 5.2% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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