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Scotts, MI

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Overview


Scotts is a tiny town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 187 people and just one neighborhood, Scotts is the 647th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Scotts is a blue-collar town, with 71.43% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Scotts is a town of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Scotts who work in sales jobs (10.20%), teaching (9.18%), and healthcare (5.10%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

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

In Scotts, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.06 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Scotts who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.00% of the adults in Scotts have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Scotts in 2018 was $23,855, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,420 for a family of four.

Scotts is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Scotts home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Scotts residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Scotts include Ethiopian, Irish, English, Nigerian, and German.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Scotts's cultural character, accounting for 32.97% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Scotts is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Russian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 3.1% have Hungarian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Korean at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% 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 Scotts are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.2% 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, 44.7% 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 22.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.8%), and 8.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Korean (2.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Scotts, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (8.2%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (61.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (8.8%) . 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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