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Zilwaukee, MI

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Overview


Zilwaukee is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,506 people and just one neighborhood, Zilwaukee is the 402nd largest community in Michigan.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Zilwaukee isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Zilwaukee are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Zilwaukee is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Zilwaukee who work in food service (16.25%), office and administrative support (14.16%), and sales jobs (10.43%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The city 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, Zilwaukee has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Zilwaukee a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Zilwaukee spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.46 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Zilwaukee is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Zilwaukee rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.47% of adults 25 and older in Zilwaukee 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 Zilwaukee in 2022 was $33,802, 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 $135,208 for a family of four. However, Zilwaukee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Zilwaukee is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Zilwaukee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Zilwaukee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Zilwaukee also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.44% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Zilwaukee include German, French Canadian, Polish, Irish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Zilwaukee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 6.7% have French ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.4% 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 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Zilwaukee are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 48.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.3% 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, 34.1% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.7%), and 17.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 97.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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 Zilwaukee, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.0%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report French roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (5.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (12.4%) . 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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