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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

When you are in Scotts, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 72.86% of Scotts’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. 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 people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness'. But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

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 33.21 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Scotts is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The overall 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, and the average American community has 21.84%.

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.

Scotts also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 30.34%.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Scotts, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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.

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, 44.3% 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 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 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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