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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

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Scotts is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 72.86% of the Scotts workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Scotts is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Scotts who work in teaching (14.29%), healthcare (7.14%), and art, media, and design (5.71%).

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

In addition, Scotts is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates". Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

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.

One downside of living in Scotts, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.21 minutes every day commuting to work.

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 education level of Scotts citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.17% of adults in Scotts have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Scotts in 2022 was $25,641, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,564 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, Nigerian, English, Irish, and German.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Scotts's cultural character, accounting for 30.34% 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, 8.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 2.4% have Hungarian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.4% 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 middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.3% 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 51.8% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 44.3% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.5%), and 9.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.0% 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 Scotts, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report English roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (8.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (57.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (7.9%) . 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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