Hubbardston is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 343 people and just one neighborhood, Hubbardston is the 601st largest community in Michigan. Hubbardston has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Hubbardston is a blue-collar town, with 45.91% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hubbardston is a village of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hubbardston who work in management occupations (13.84%), office and administrative support (8.81%), and food service (6.92%).
A relatively large number of people in Hubbardston telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.84% 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.
Overall, Hubbardston’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Hubbardston has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Hubbardston has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hubbardston than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hubbardston may be for you.
As is often the case in a small village, Hubbardston doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Hubbardston, just 10.34% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Hubbardston in 2022 was $29,272, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $117,088 for a family of four. However, Hubbardston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hubbardston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hubbardston residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Hubbardston include German, Irish, Polish, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Hubbardston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Hubbardston, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 3.7% have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.2% 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 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Hubbardston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.6% 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, 41.2% 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 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.8%), and 11.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 95.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Hubbardston, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (44.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.3%) 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 (19.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.