Mancelona is a very small village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,388 people and two associated neighborhoods, Mancelona is the 429th largest community in Michigan.Mancelona is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mancelona is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mancelona who work in maintenance occupations (11.88%), healthcare suport services (11.74%), and food service (10.91%). The overall crime rate in Mancelona is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Mancelona has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mancelona a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small village, Mancelona does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The population of Mancelona has a very low overall level of education: only 7.35% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. The per capita income in Mancelona in 2022 was $24,947, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $99,788 for a family of four. However, Mancelona contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Mancelona home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mancelona residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mancelona include German, English, Irish, European, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Mancelona is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
