Gowen is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 2,548 people and just one neighborhood, Gowen is the 308th largest community in Michigan.
Gowen is a blue-collar town, with 44.28% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Gowen is a town of production and manufacturing workers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gowen who work in office and administrative support (10.25%), management occupations (9.97%), and business and financial occupations (5.40%).
Also of interest is that Gowen has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Gowen 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. Gowen has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gowen than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gowen may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Gowen doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Gowen is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.51% of adults 25 and older in Gowen have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Gowen in 2022 was $28,282, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $113,128 for a family of four. However, Gowen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Gowen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gowen residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Gowen include German, Dutch, English, Irish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Gowen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Gowen, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.6% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 2.8% have Danish 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 Gowen are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 32.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 42.4% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.5%), and 13.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Gowen, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.9%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report English roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (8.1%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (7.6%), 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 (39.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.5%) 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 (14.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.