Maple Rapids is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 583 people and just one neighborhood, Maple Rapids is the 548th largest community in Michigan. Much of the housing stock in Maple Rapids was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
When you are in Maple Rapids, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.46% of Maple Rapids’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Maple Rapids is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Maple Rapids who work in sales jobs (12.68%), teaching (9.73%), and office and administrative support (8.85%).
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!) Maple Rapids 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. Maple Rapids has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Maple Rapids than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Maple Rapids may be for you.
Maple Rapids 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 citizens of Maple Rapids have a very low rate of college education: just 8.47% 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 Maple Rapids in 2022 was $25,019, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,076 for a family of four. However, Maple Rapids contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Maple Rapids also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.95% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Maple Rapids home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Maple Rapids residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Maple Rapids include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and French.
The most common language spoken in Maple Rapids is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.9% 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 Maple Rapids are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 32.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.0% 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, 35.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.9%), and 15.6% 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 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.5%).
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 Maple Rapids, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report English roots (13.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.
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 (31.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.0%) 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 (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.