Columbiaville is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 712 people and just one neighborhood, Columbiaville is the 530th largest community in Michigan. Columbiaville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Columbiaville is a blue-collar town, with 37.31% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Columbiaville is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Columbiaville who work in sales jobs (13.13%), management occupations (9.85%), and office and administrative support (8.96%).
Also of interest is that Columbiaville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Residents will find that the village 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, Columbiaville is worth considering.
One downside of living in Columbiaville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.31 minutes every day commuting to work.
Columbiaville 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 Columbiaville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.87% of the adults in Columbiaville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Columbiaville in 2022 was $30,509, 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 $122,036 for a family of four. However, Columbiaville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Columbiaville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Columbiaville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Columbiaville include German, Irish, English, Polish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Columbiaville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.0% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.5% of all neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 2.8% have Eastern European ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Columbiaville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.6% 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, 36.7% 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.3%), and 12.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.9%).
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 Columbiaville, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report English roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.6%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (11.0%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.