Covert is a very small township located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 2,499 people and just one neighborhood, Covert is the 311th largest community in Michigan.
Covert is a blue-collar town, with 36.86% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Covert is a township of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Covert who work in maintenance occupations (10.99%), office and administrative support (9.86%), and management occupations (9.65%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.31% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
The township is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Covert has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Covert a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Covert is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Covert, the average commute to work is 31.08 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The percentage of adults in Covert with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.08% of adults in Covert have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Covert in 2022 was $22,807, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $91,228 for a family of four. However, Covert contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Covert is an extremely ethnically-diverse township. The people who call Covert home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Covert residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Covert also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.36% of the township’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Covert include European, Irish, German, English, and Italian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Covert's cultural character, accounting for 17.76% of the township’s population.
The most common language spoken in Covert is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (29.6%) than in 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the neighborhood has more single mother households than 98.3% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 30.9%, which is higher than 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Covert are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.4% 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, 33.7% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.8%), and 13.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (28.5%).
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 Covert, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (22.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.0%), and residents who report German roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.3%), among others. In addition, 17.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (62.1%) 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 (29.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.