Parchment is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,899 people and just one neighborhood, Parchment is the 360th largest community in Michigan.
Parchment is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Parchment is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Parchment who work in office and administrative support (15.36%), healthcare suport services (10.60%), and sales jobs (6.40%).
Also of interest is that Parchment has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The citizens of Parchment are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.42% of adults in Parchment having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Parchment in 2022 was $32,991, which is middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $131,964 for a family of four. However, Parchment contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Parchment is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Parchment home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Parchment residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Parchment include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and French.
The most common language spoken in Parchment is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch 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 Parchment are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.3% 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, 27.0% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.5%), and 21.3% 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 94.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.2%).
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 Parchment, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report English roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (52.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.3%) 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.