Onondaga is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 2,996 people and just one neighborhood, Onondaga is the 275th largest community in Michigan.
When you are in Onondaga, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.17% of Onondaga’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Onondaga is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Onondaga who work in office and administrative support (12.87%), management occupations (11.31%), and business and financial occupations (5.79%).
Residents will find that the town 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, Onondaga is worth considering.
Onondaga is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Onondaga are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.56% of adults in Onondaga have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Onondaga in 2022 was $34,476, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,904 for a family of four. However, Onondaga contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Onondaga home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Onondaga residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Onondaga include German, European, English, Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Onondaga is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
Of particular note, 2.8% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
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 Onondaga are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.0% 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, 39.2% 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 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.4%), and 14.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Onondaga, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 (37.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.0%) 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 (7.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.