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Edmore, MI

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Overview


Edmore is a very small village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,249 people and just one neighborhood, Edmore is the 450th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Edmore is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.01% of the Edmore workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Edmore is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Edmore who work in maintenance occupations (10.60%), sales jobs (9.32%), and office and administrative support (8.59%).

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

Edmore is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Edmore rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.23% of adults 25 and older in Edmore have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Edmore in 2018 was $22,305, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,220 for a family of four. However, Edmore contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 3.6% have Dutch 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 Edmore are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.6% 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, 33.1% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.8%), and 16.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.5%).

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 Edmore, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (78.3%) 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 (9.1%) and 8.6% 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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