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Cass City, MI

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Overview


Cass City is a very small village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 2,493 people and just one neighborhood, Cass City is the 313th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Cass City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.30% of Cass City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cass City is a village of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cass City who work in office and administrative support (18.15%), management occupations (8.68%), and healthcare (7.88%).

Also of interest is that Cass City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Cass City who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.32% of the adults in Cass City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cass City in 2018 was $29,123, 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 $116,492 for a family of four. However, Cass City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Cass City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Cass City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cass City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cass City include German, Irish, Polish, English, and French.

The most common language spoken in Cass City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Indo-European.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 33.5% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.6% 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 98.0% 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 Cass City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.1% 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 61.1% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 36.4% 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 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.1%), and 15.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (9.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Cass City, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report English roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (14.7%) . 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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