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Cassopolis, MI

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Overview


Cassopolis is a very small village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,717 people and just one neighborhood, Cassopolis is the 384th largest community in Michigan. Cassopolis has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

Cassopolis is a blue-collar town, with 43.73% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cassopolis is a village of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cassopolis who work in sales jobs (14.43%), food service (8.16%), and office and administrative support (5.98%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Cassopolis has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Cassopolis has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cassopolis than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cassopolis may be for you.

Demographics

The citizens of Cassopolis have a very low rate of college education: just 7.93% 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 Cassopolis in 2018 was $21,507, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,028 for a family of four. However, Cassopolis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.

In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Cassopolis is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in MI, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.9% of the neighborhoods in Michigan. If you are considering retiring to Michigan, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

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 Cassopolis are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.2% 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, 37.4% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 11.6% 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 95.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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 Cassopolis, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.2%), and residents who report French roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 (30.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (11.4%) . 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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