Winn is a tiny town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 166 people and just one neighborhood, Winn is the 655th largest community in Michigan.
Winn is a blue-collar town, with 78.69% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Winn is a town of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Winn who work in computer science and math (14.75%), healthcare suport services (6.56%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).
Also of interest is that Winn has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The overall crime rate in Winn is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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, Winn is worth considering.
Winn is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Winn has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Winn in 2022 was $28,687, which is middle income relative to Michigan, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,748 for a family of four. However, Winn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Winn also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.33% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Winn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Winn residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Winn include German, Irish, Italian, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Winn is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.
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 Winn, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.7% 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 99.2% 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 Winn are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 22.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.2% 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, 32.5% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 16.0% 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 93.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Polish and Italian.
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 Winn, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.8%) 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 (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.