Evart is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,772 people and just one neighborhood, Evart is the 379th largest community in Michigan.
Evart is a blue-collar town, with 35.22% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Evart is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Evart who work in office and administrative support (11.63%), food service (10.18%), and sales jobs (9.85%).
Also of interest is that Evart has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Evart spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.52 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
The percentage of adults in Evart with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.43% of adults in Evart have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Evart in 2022 was $20,633, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,532 for a family of four. However, Evart contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Evart also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.11% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Evart home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Evart residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Evart include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Evart is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
In the neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 11.0% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 95.4% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!
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, 4.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Evart are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 35.2% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.5%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.5%).
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 Evart, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.8%), along with some Polish 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (11.0%) and 10.3% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.