Cass City is a very small village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 2,493 people and just one neighborhood, Cass City is the 313th largest community in Michigan.
Cass City is a blue-collar town, with 36.30% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cass City is a village of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cass City who work in office and administrative support (18.15%), management occupations (8.68%), and healthcare (7.88%).
Also of interest is that Cass City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Cass City is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Cass City who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.32% of the adults in Cass City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cass City in 2022 was $29,123, which is middle income relative to Michigan, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,492 for a family of four. However, Cass City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cass City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Cass City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cass City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cass City include German, Irish, Polish, English, and French.
The most common language spoken in Cass City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Indo-European.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 33.5% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.6% 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 98.0% 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 Cass City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.1% 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 61.1% 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, 36.4% 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 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.1%), and 15.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (9.6%).
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 Cass City, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report English roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (14.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.