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Stephenson, MI

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Overview


Stephenson is a tiny city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 810 people and just one neighborhood, Stephenson is the 513th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Stephenson is a blue-collar town, with 36.48% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Stephenson is a city of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Stephenson who work in food service (8.93%), art, media, and design (7.65%), and office and administrative support (7.40%).

Of important note, Stephenson is also a city of artists. Stephenson has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Stephenson’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Stephenson’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

The city 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, Stephenson has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Stephenson a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Stephenson is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Stephenson is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.95% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Stephenson in 2022 was $24,286, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,144 for a family of four. However, Stephenson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Stephenson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stephenson residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Stephenson include German, Polish, French, Swedish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Stephenson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 32.5%, which is higher than 95.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 10.5% have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.4% 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 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Stephenson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.8% 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 51.1% 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, 34.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.3%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Stephenson, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.3%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report Polish roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.0%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (7.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (12.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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