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Morenci, MI

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Overview


Morenci is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 2,237 people and just one neighborhood, Morenci is the 329th largest community in Michigan. Morenci has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Morenci is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.73% of the Morenci workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Morenci is a city of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Morenci who work in sales jobs (10.96%), office and administrative support (7.80%), and healthcare suport services (7.48%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Morenci 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. Morenci has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Morenci than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Morenci may be for you.

Being a small city, Morenci does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In Morenci, just 8.35% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Morenci in 2018 was $25,695, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,780 for a family of four. However, Morenci contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Morenci home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Morenci residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Morenci include German, English, Irish, French, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Morenci is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Morenci are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.1% 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, 45.9% 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 22.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.1%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Morenci, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (86.3%) 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 (9.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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