Lawrence is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,013 people and just one neighborhood, Lawrence is the 480th largest community in Michigan.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lawrence is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.24% of the Lawrence workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lawrence is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lawrence who work in sales jobs (14.59%), office and administrative support (9.18%), and food service (7.06%).
Also of interest is that Lawrence has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The overall crime rate in Lawrence is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Being a small village, Lawrence does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Lawrence is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.77% of adults 25 and older in Lawrence have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lawrence in 2022 was $21,534, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,136 for a family of four. However, Lawrence contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lawrence is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Lawrence home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lawrence residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Lawrence also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 36.05% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lawrence include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Lawrence is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Lawrence, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.4% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Jamaican and Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry and 1.2% have Austrian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.5% 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 96.6% 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 Lawrence are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.6% of U.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, 43.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.8%), and 8.6% 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 80.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish and Italian.
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 Lawrence, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (18.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.6%), along with some Jamaican ancestry residents (4.4%), among others. In addition, 10.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (35.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (19.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.