New Lothrop is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 585 people and just one neighborhood, New Lothrop is the 551st largest community in Michigan.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, New Lothrop is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New Lothrop is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in New Lothrop who work in office and administrative support (17.63%), healthcare (8.65%), and sales jobs (7.69%).
A relatively large number of people in New Lothrop telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.06% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
New Lothrop’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in New Lothrop, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.61 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small village, New Lothrop does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of New Lothrop citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.00% of adults 25 and older in New Lothrop have a college degree.
The per capita income in New Lothrop in 2018 was $34,151, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,604 for a family of four. However, New Lothrop contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call New Lothrop home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Lothrop residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Lothrop include German, Irish, English, European, and French.
The most common language spoken in New Lothrop is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and African languages.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
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 New Lothrop are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 33.0% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 16.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.
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 New Lothrop, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report English roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.4%), among others.
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 (35.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.