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Pigeon - Bay Port, MI

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Overview


Pigeon - Bay Port is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 3,423 people and just one neighborhood, Pigeon - Bay Port is the 253rd largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pigeon - Bay Port is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pigeon - Bay Port is a town of managers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pigeon - Bay Port who work in management occupations (13.95%), office and administrative support (8.44%), and healthcare (6.55%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The education level of Pigeon - Bay Port citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.50% of adults 25 and older in Pigeon - Bay Port have a college degree.

The per capita income in Pigeon - Bay Port in 2018 was $27,530, which is middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,120 for a family of four. However, Pigeon - Bay Port contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Pigeon - Bay Port is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.7% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 45 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.1% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 45.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German 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 Pigeon - Bay Port are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.9% of U.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, 34.6% 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 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.6%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households.

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 Pigeon - Bay Port, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (45.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (8.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.8%) 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 (6.5%) . 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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