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Interlochen, MI

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Overview


Interlochen is a tiny town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 694 people and just one neighborhood, Interlochen is the 531st largest community in Michigan. Much of the housing stock in Interlochen was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Interlochen economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Interlochen, where the median household income is $92,422.00.

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

Occupations and Workforce

Interlochen is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Interlochen is a town of managers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Interlochen who work in business and financial occupations (32.61%), management occupations (25.00%), and healthcare suport services (7.61%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Interlochen is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.52% of adults in Interlochen have a college degree.

The per capita income in Interlochen in 2018 was $33,651, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $134,604 for a family of four. However, Interlochen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Interlochen is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Interlochen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Interlochen residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Interlochen include German, Austrian, English, Swedish, and Irish.

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

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

People

Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 23.1% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry and 9.3% have Scottish 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 Interlochen are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.5% 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 50.4% 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, 40.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 34.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.3%), and 3.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.9%).

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 Interlochen, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (9.3%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (6.1%), 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 (44.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.6%) 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 (16.3%) . 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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