Cass City is a very small village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 2,487 people and just one neighborhood, Cass City is the 313th largest community in Michigan.
Unlike some villages, Cass City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Cass City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cass City is a village of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cass City who work in office and administrative support (19.91%), management occupations (9.78%), and healthcare suport services (8.29%).
Also of interest is that Cass City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
As is often the case in a small village, Cass City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Cass City who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.91% of the adults in Cass City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cass City in 2022 was $30,305, which is middle income relative to Michigan, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $121,220 for a family of four. However, Cass City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cass City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Cass City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cass City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cass City include German, Irish, English, Polish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Cass City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Indo-European.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.5% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Significantly, 9.6% 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 98.0% 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 Cass City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.2% 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 57.3% 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, 33.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.4%), and 16.4% 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 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Polish (9.6%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Cass City, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.7%), and residents who report English roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (8.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.1%) 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 (12.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.