Quincy is a very small village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,560 people and two associated neighborhoods, Quincy is the 400th largest community in Michigan.When you are in Quincy, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 60.93% of Quincy’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Quincy is a village of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Quincy who work in sales jobs (7.12%), office and administrative support (6.79%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (4.47%). It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Quincy has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Quincy has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Quincy than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Quincy may be for you. One of the benefits of Quincy is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.19 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Being a small village, Quincy does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Quincy have a very low rate of college education: just 8.29% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities. The per capita income in Quincy in 2022 was $27,913, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,652 for a family of four. However, Quincy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Quincy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Quincy residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Quincy include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and European. The most common language spoken in Quincy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
