Buckley is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 772 people and just one neighborhood, Buckley is the 523rd largest community in Michigan. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Buckley, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Buckley, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Buckley’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Buckley does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $64,931.00.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Buckley is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Buckley is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Buckley who work in office and administrative support (14.57%), maintenance occupations (14.01%), and sales jobs (11.76%).
The overall crime rate in Buckley 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.
One downside of living in Buckley, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.66 minutes every day commuting to work.
Buckley 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 percentage of adults in Buckley who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.23% of the adults in Buckley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Buckley in 2022 was $21,940, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,760 for a family of four. However, Buckley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Buckley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Buckley residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Buckley include German, Polish, English, Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Buckley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.
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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.6% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 3.7% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Buckley are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.7% of U.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, 32.4% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 19.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).
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 Buckley, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.3%) 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 (16.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.