New Troy is a tiny town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 483 people and just one neighborhood, New Troy is the 575th largest community in Michigan. New Troy has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
When you are in New Troy, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.60% of New Troy’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, New Troy is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Troy who work in sales jobs (21.52%), food service (11.21%), and office and administrative support (10.31%).
The town 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, New Troy has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Troy a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of New Troy spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.58 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small town, New Troy does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of New Troy have a very low rate of college education: just 9.88% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in New Troy in 2022 was $37,677, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,708 for a family of four. However, New Troy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Troy is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call New Troy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Troy residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in New Troy include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in New Troy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 6.5% have Norwegian ancestry.
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 New Troy are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 36.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 16.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% 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 New Troy, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.4%), among others.
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 (48.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.6%) 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 (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.