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Three Oaks, MI

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Overview


Three Oaks is a very small village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,397 people and just one neighborhood, Three Oaks is the 425th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Three Oaks is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Three Oaks is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Three Oaks who work in food service (14.11%), office and administrative support (10.43%), and sales jobs (9.36%).

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.06% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Three Oaks who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.98% of the adults in Three Oaks have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Three Oaks in 2018 was $38,607, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $154,428 for a family of four. However, Three Oaks contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Three Oaks is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Three Oaks home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Three Oaks residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Three Oaks also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.91% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Three Oaks include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Three Oaks is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Significantly, 9.5% 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 97.9% 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 Three Oaks are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.6% 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 59.7% of America'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, 32.3% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.4%), and 13.4% 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 87.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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 Three Oaks, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.0%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report English roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (73.5%) 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 (15.1%) . 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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