Alanson is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 780 people and just one neighborhood, Alanson is the 520th largest community in Michigan.
When you are in Alanson, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.54% of Alanson’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Alanson is a village of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alanson who work in food service (12.73%), sales jobs (9.28%), and healthcare suport services (9.02%).
Also of interest is that Alanson has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Residents will find that the village 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, Alanson is worth considering.
Alanson is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Alanson are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.20% of adults in Alanson have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Alanson in 2022 was $24,739, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $98,956 for a family of four. However, Alanson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Alanson is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Alanson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alanson residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Alanson include German, English, Polish, Dutch, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Alanson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Native American languages.
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 Finnish and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 11.1% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Alanson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 51.8% of America'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, 34.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.4%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 90.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Native American languages, Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Alanson, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report Native American roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.4%), along with some Finnish ancestry residents (7.0%), 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 (48.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (15.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.