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.
When you are in New Troy, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.70% 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 (19.33%), food service (12.61%), and office and administrative support (10.08%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, New Troy is worth considering.
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 18.73 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
As is often the case in a small town, New Troy doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of New Troy has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.93% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in New Troy in 2022 was $38,202, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $152,808 for a family of four. However, New Troy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Troy is a very 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, Polish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in New Troy 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 New Troy, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 90.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 3.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 6.2% have Norwegian 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 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 72.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.5% 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, 37.9% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.2%), and 15.9% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% 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 (25.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Polish roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (6.2%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 (48.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.