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Ida, MI

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Overview


Ida is a tiny town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 790 people and just one neighborhood, Ida is the 517th largest community in Michigan. Much of the housing stock in Ida was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Ida real estate is some of the most expensive in Michigan, although Ida house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Ida is a blue-collar town, with 39.39% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ida is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ida who work in office and administrative support (12.95%), healthcare (8.54%), and business and financial occupations (8.54%).

Of important note, Ida is also a town of artists. Ida has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Ida’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Ida is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Ida really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Ida perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One downside of living in Ida, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.07 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Ida doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Ida who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.72% of the adults in Ida have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ida in 2018 was $36,676, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $146,704 for a family of four.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 39.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

The neighborhood has earned the amazing distinction of having one of the highest rates of detached, single-family homes of any neighborhood in the U.S. With 98.0% of the residential real estate here made up of free-standing single-family homes, there is a greater proportion of single-family homes here than in 96.2% of all neighborhoods in America.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 5.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Michigan. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 11.0% have Polish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Ida are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 76.9% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 40.2% 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 32.2% 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 8.2% 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 99.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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 Ida, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (11.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 (38.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.9%) 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 (6.2%) . 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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