New Troy is a tiny town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 483 people and just one neighborhood, New Troy is the 575th largest community in Michigan. New Troy has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, New Troy is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.60% of the New Troy workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, New Troy is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Troy who work in sales jobs (21.52%), food service (11.21%), and office and administrative support (10.31%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, New Troy has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Troy a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.58 minutes getting to work every day.
As is often the case in a small town, New Troy doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In New Troy, just 9.88% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in New Troy in 2022 was $37,677, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,708 for a family of four. However, New Troy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Troy is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call New Troy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Troy residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in New Troy include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in New Troy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 New Troy, 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 Canadian and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 6.5% have Norwegian 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 New Troy are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.1% 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, 36.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 16.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.
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 New Troy, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.4%), 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 (48.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.6%) 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 (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.