The overall crime rate in Mancelona 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.
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Mancelona has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Mancelona has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mancelona than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mancelona may be for you.
Being a small village, Mancelona does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Mancelona have a very low rate of college education: just 7.35% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Mancelona in 2022 was $24,947, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $99,788 for a family of four. However, Mancelona contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mancelona home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mancelona residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mancelona include German, English, Irish, European, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Mancelona is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
