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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

Scotts is a blue-collar town, with 71.43% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Scotts is a town of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Scotts who work in sales jobs (10.20%), teaching (9.18%), and healthcare (5.10%).

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

Because of many things, Scotts is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Scotts a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Scotts has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Scotts’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

In Scotts, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.06 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 percentage of adults in Scotts who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.00% of the adults in Scotts have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Scotts in 2022 was $23,855, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,420 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, Irish, English, Nigerian, and German.

Scotts also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 32.97%.

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, 8.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 3.1% have Hungarian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Korean at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Scotts are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.2% 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, 44.7% 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 22.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.8%), and 8.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Korean (2.9%).

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 German (11.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (8.2%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (61.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (8.8%) . 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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