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Gibraltar, MI

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Overview


Gibraltar is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 4,949 people and just one neighborhood, Gibraltar is the 194th largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Gibraltar is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gibraltar is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gibraltar who work in sales jobs (10.49%), management occupations (10.45%), and office and administrative support (9.07%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small city, Gibraltar does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Gibraltar are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.21% of adults in Gibraltar having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gibraltar in 2022 was $37,411, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $149,644 for a family of four. However, Gibraltar contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Gibraltar is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Gibraltar home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gibraltar residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gibraltar include German, Polish, Irish, Italian, and English.

The most common language spoken in Gibraltar is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 86.8% of the neighborhoods in MI. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 1.9% have Slovak ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.5% 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 Gibraltar are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.8% 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 79.5% of America's neighborhoods.

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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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.4%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (7.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Gibraltar, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.5%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.0%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.6%) 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 (6.1%) . 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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