Hopkins is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 626 people and just one neighborhood, Hopkins is the 541st largest community in Michigan. Hopkins has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Hopkins is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hopkins is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hopkins who work in sales jobs (22.40%), office and administrative support (10.93%), and maintenance occupations (6.56%).
Of important note, Hopkins is also a village of artists. Hopkins has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Hopkins’s character.
Even though Hopkins is a smaller village, it has many people who hop on public transportation – mostly the subway for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.
The population of Hopkins overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Hopkins, 23.17% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Hopkins in 2022 was $29,680, which is middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $118,720 for a family of four. However, Hopkins contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hopkins home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hopkins residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Hopkins include German, Dutch, English, Polish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Hopkins is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.3% 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 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Hopkins are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.0% of U.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, 38.0% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 11.2% 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 97.5% 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 Hopkins, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Dutch (22.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (8.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.0%), 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 (36.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.