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Luna Pier, MI

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Overview


Luna Pier is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,367 people and just one neighborhood, Luna Pier is the 420th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Luna Pier isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Luna Pier are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Luna Pier is a city of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Luna Pier who work in food service (10.61%), sales jobs (9.02%), and business and financial occupations (9.02%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Luna Pier is worth considering.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Luna Pier are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.32% of adults in Luna Pier having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Luna Pier in 2018 was $31,692, 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 $126,768 for a family of four. However, Luna Pier contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Luna Pier 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.

People

Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 24.1% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.0% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 2.1% have Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 17.1% 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 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Luna Pier are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.6% 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, 35.3% 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 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.0%), and 10.1% 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 97.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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 Luna Pier, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report Polish roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (8.1%), 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 (50.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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