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Quinnesec, MI

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Overview


Quinnesec is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,083 people and just one neighborhood, Quinnesec is the 468th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Quinnesec is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.02% of the Quinnesec workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Quinnesec is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Quinnesec who work in office and administrative support (15.39%), maintenance occupations (15.26%), and healthcare (4.95%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Quinnesec 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, Quinnesec really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Quinnesec 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.

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

One of the benefits of Quinnesec is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 14.28 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.

Quinnesec is a very car-oriented town. 97.57% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Quinnesec is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Quinnesec has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Quinnesec 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

In Quinnesec, just 12.24% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Quinnesec in 2018 was $31,934, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,736 for a family of four. However, Quinnesec contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Quinnesec 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 Quinnesec, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.9% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 8.7% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Michigan, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Michigan. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 5.4% 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 Quinnesec are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.2% 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 67.9% 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, 44.8% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.0%), and 12.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% 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 Quinnesec, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.2%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report Swedish roots (12.5%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (11.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (10.6%), 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 (47.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (6.4%) . 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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