North Adams is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 467 people and just one neighborhood, North Adams is the 578th largest community in Michigan. Much of the housing stock in North Adams was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
North Adams is a blue-collar town, with 35.71% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, North Adams is a village of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in North Adams who work in office and administrative support (13.78%), teaching (9.18%), and maintenance occupations (6.63%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.63% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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!) North Adams 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. North Adams has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in North Adams than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, North Adams may be for you.
North Adams 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 percentage of adults in North Adams with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.93% of adults in North Adams have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in North Adams in 2022 was $26,444, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,776 for a family of four. However, North Adams contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call North Adams home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of North Adams residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in North Adams include English, German, Irish, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in North Adams is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish 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.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
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, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
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 North Adams are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 55.9% of America'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, 33.7% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.4%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households.
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 North Adams, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 (35.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.2%) 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 (11.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.