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Dowling, MI

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Overview


Dowling is a tiny town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 351 people and just one neighborhood, Dowling is the 606th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Dowling is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 54.09% of the Dowling workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Dowling is a town of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dowling who work in sales jobs (13.21%), personal care services (8.18%), and office and administrative support (7.55%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Dowling’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Dowling 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. Dowling has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dowling than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dowling may be for you.

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

Demographics

The population of Dowling has a very low overall level of education: only 6.56% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Dowling in 2018 was $32,463, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $129,852 for a family of four. However, Dowling contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Dowling is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Dowling home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dowling residents report their race to be White. Dowling also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.74% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dowling include German, Scottish, Polish, English, and Irish.

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

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 Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch 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 Dowling are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.4% 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, 38.3% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).

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 Dowling, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report Dutch roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.7%) 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 (9.9%) . 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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