Vassar is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 2,705 people and just one neighborhood, Vassar is the 294th largest community in Michigan.
Vassar is a blue-collar town, with 40.95% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Vassar is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Vassar who work in food service (10.24%), sales jobs (9.31%), and office and administrative support (6.94%).
As is often the case in a small city, Vassar doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Vassar rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.30% of adults 25 and older in Vassar have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Vassar in 2022 was $27,364, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,456 for a family of four. However, Vassar contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Vassar is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Vassar home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vassar residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Vassar also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.33% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Vassar include German, English, Irish, Polish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Vassar is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Vassar, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 3.4% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Vassar are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.4% 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, 41.1% 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 95.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Vassar, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report Polish roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (7.2%), 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 (30.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (11.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.