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Harbor Beach, MI

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Overview


Harbor Beach is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,593 people and just one neighborhood, Harbor Beach is the 396th largest community in Michigan. Harbor Beach has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Harbor Beach is a blue-collar town, with 35.57% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Harbor Beach is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Harbor Beach who work in management occupations (12.06%), sales jobs (10.08%), and office and administrative support (8.55%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

One of the benefits of Harbor Beach is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.66 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Harbor Beach who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.02% of the adults in Harbor Beach have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Harbor Beach in 2018 was $26,234, 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 $104,936 for a family of four. However, Harbor Beach contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Harbor Beach home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Harbor Beach residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Harbor Beach include German, Polish, English, Italian, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Harbor Beach is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.

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

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 17.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 2.1% have Finnish 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 Harbor Beach are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.1% 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, 33.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households.

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 Harbor Beach, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (42.0%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (17.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 (50.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (75.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (7.1%) and 7.0% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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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