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Grawn, MI

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Overview


Grawn is a tiny town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 816 people and just one neighborhood, Grawn is the 513th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Grawn is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Grawn is a town of managers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Grawn who work in management occupations (22.36%), sales jobs (10.73%), and personal care services (8.36%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Grawn with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.59% of adults in Grawn have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Grawn in 2018 was $22,730, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $90,920 for a family of four. However, Grawn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Grawn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grawn residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Grawn include English, German, French, Irish, and Romanian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 1.8% have Swiss ancestry.

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 Grawn are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.5% 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, 30.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.0%), and 15.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Grawn, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.3%), and residents who report French roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (8.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.9%) 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 (11.6%) . 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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